Long Ait Poems

*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...

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Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and disarming airs has been...

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Mama – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Mum » by T. Wignesan

Kevin Gilbert (July 10, 1933 – April 1, 1993) - father of Irish-English ancestry, mother an aboriginal from New South Wales - was orphaned...

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Translation of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with his Song by T Wignesan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgl-VRdXr7I


Refrain :

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my...

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La Civilisation – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Civilization” by T. Wignesan 

Nous qui sont arrivés en retard à la civilisation,
Une lacune des siècles que nous ait laissé tomber,
Lors de votre arrivé à nos terres nous...

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Hush! one whit elevation makes many,
Tislite born in Imilchil.
Who knows may write her own fate till her last day?
But only in a secret way.
Which can never be heard nor be told,
But Ait Hiddou and Ait...

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**Original in Turkish**

Mucizem 

Levent, bir rüzgâr gibi esti dünyama,
Esintisiyle savurdu karanliklari.
Bir adadaki isik gibi, yolumu aydinlatti,
Oksijenim, havam—nefesim oldu varligi.

Gelecegimi çoktan bilen büyüleyici bir ruh,
Ovis’te oturmus, beni bekleyen bir kalp.
Evren sesimi duymus,
Ve mucizem, atesin isiginda dogmustu.

Ince...

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Le soleil a perdu sa lumière en plusieurs années
Dans l'autre face de la grande Meditteranee;
Et, avant que je retrouve cette sliver,
Qui ma aidé a rentré au quai des Milliardaires;
Vous aviez déjà établie une place dans...

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I thought it would be interesting to translate a poem into Gaeilge (Native Irish language)
for you! Here it is in English and Irish and if you want to hear me reading it in Irish
here is...

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se déplaçant lentement la tête
de la gauche vers la droite
que le ciel s'ouvre à la lumière night-club
avec le globe scintillant
avec les produits chimiques se précipiter dans les veines
elle ferme les yeux pour profiter de chaque...

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A s usual
B efore bedtime
C ome sit with me he did say
D onald Dennis my grandpa
E tering the inner room curtain
F alling by his bedside we
G athering almost in a circle
H earing his old cracked...

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AIt is said and sadly wrongly banded about
like confetti at a wake 

By those who quite patently do not or will never know the meaning of true love

You don't know what 
you've got till it's...

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By any means necessary  on survival  new beginnings
feeling like one's wandering in the bewilderment by
any means necessary. Plots for substenances, One's 
possibilities,  A quench to thrive with a breath of fresh
ait; Not...

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Daniel
is 22 years
old.  He has
been trying to
get into the Army
National Guard.  
Pushups and laps
around the parks
and neighborhoods.
Daniel ate salads and
grilled chicken.  Daniel
was in Fort Sill for basic
training!  He completed
AIT classes in...

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