I am grateful knowing one universal characteristic of love…
one that’s easy for everyone to spot:
It’s when we look around the world…
how Love, itself, is a polyglot!
It is easy in all the different countries…
everywhere we are fortunate enough
to be glancing, glimpsing or peeking…
to see peoples’ love…
even when we don’t understand
the language they are speaking.
Por Que Pig and Bugs Bonet
nisht parlez vous francais
Aber Mikhail Maus und seine spouse
drinkt 'L'chaim!' in ihrem haus
Eso es todo, amigos...
____________________________
Call '1-800-say-what' now. Trans-
lators are standing by to take your
calls. (Not that they'll understand
a word you're saying... Farshtey?)
My pen writes in English
My pen writes in French
Mon stylo écrit en français
My pen writes in Spanish
Mi pluma escribe en español
My pen writes in Italian
La mia penna scrive in italiano
My pen writes in Portuguese
Minha caneta escreve em portugues
My pen writes in Creole
Plim mwen ekri an kreyòl
My pen writes in Latin
Calamum meum latine scribit
Believe me, friends, if you write in these
Romance languages, you’ll be
Happy to enjoy writing. I love these
Languages. I entertain the idea
Of knowing at least one word
Of the other languages of the world
I love words of all languages
Throughout the ages
Leave a few funny comments
I know what you’re going to say, my friends
It’s always a pleasure hearing from you
I love you will all my heart, I love you
Eske nou tout konprann?
Do you all understand?
Copyright © April 2020, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
My mind is kind of uncultured,
but my heart is polyglot
speak all languages
that speak love...!
No Polyglot Here
By: Tom Wright
9-7-2019-
I’m no shade of polyglot,
It’s only English for me.
Italian, French, or German;
Now which would it be?
Learning another language,
Wouldn’t be germane.
From an “Okie,” any one,
Might be met with disdain.
Would my native tongue,
Then languish on a shelf.
While in my new language,
I just talked to myself?
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