Tongues
...Some languages are fluently translatable
but only by how the mouth
utters and shapes them,
they are too musical to be not sung,
like Gaelic; it was my mother’s tongue
and her grandmother’s elder...
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Categories:
translatable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Owl
...A display of giant eyes
But rarely morning flights tries;
Unwanted publicity her grounds,
All CCTV out of bounds!
With ears for the faintest cough,
Their sound-grabbing devices tough,
Also fo...
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Categories:
translatable, allusion, animal, beauty, death,
Form: Rhyme
Conquest
......And then they speak of un-translatable conquests,
Though my face looks so much like your face
And our voices can get caught and surprised in mutual, glancing harmony
Over and over and then some...
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Categories:
translatable, life, love,
Form: Free verse