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Thank you for organising this amazing opportunity.
What a wonderful way to spend the summer; immersed in poetry 😄
Love & Blessings,
Parveen
“So I say to you –
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:” “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”
Fly far to the East for a very special stay
And get lost in the flow of the rich Sabah way
Smiles from all around will be a gift for your heart
All just for writing some poetry art
And basking in Malaysia as a prize would be nice
I just hope I can win for eating mango sticky rice
And here comes David, wiping the floor with his lyrical prowess ! I was always impressed by your poems, now's no different.
And all the other poems are awesome too! This is a lot of fun!!
Hmmmm... I'm looking forward to see if a poem will come to me too!
Happy practice early morning practice to those already awake,
Fabienne
EDIT: Andrew, I WISH I was able to "like" your post. I want mango rice now, haha!
Last edited by Fabienne; 4 July 2015, 02:52 AM.
Reason: MANGO RICE!!
That if you click on the foreign language threads that you may have an option in your web browser to translate the page into English? I am using google Chrome, and I just discovered this; there is a certain poetic charm to the computer translations.
From Naoko in the Japanese forum:
It can also spread joy of life of try to write a poem in the summer of memories.
As if Sifu's generosity and spirit of scholarship were not already amazing, there are now additional prizes as follows.
Rather than a single prize for best non-English poem there will be A prize for each Non-English section of the forum in which there are three or more entries. The prize for each language group will be One Complimentary Regional Course.
So, to be clear, potentially we could see prizes for:
Best Chinese Poem in Translation
Best French Poem in Translation
Best German Poem in Translation
Best Japanese Poem in Translation
Best Spanish Poem in Translation
Best Russian Poem in Translation
Best Italian Poem in Translation
and as before, those poems are eligible also for the Grand Prize.
Wow, no way ! It's amazing that Sigung is giving everybody a fighting chance!
Althoooough...
Does this mean I could enter a poem in German, French and English? Probably not, but it was worth asking for asking's sake . When it comes to the more scholarly aspects, I'm more for strategy, not poetry but hey! This challenge is really fun to be part of, thank you again for initiating it!
Having thoroughly read the full-length, 16 page rule book, I see nothing in the rules prohibiting one from entering poems in multiple languages. I think you should go for it, since you planted the seed, let's watch it grow!
Do poems have to be actual?
I am asking because I had a poetical phase more than 10 years ago (as a reaction of my husband's illness and death) - and I do not think I am able to rejuvenate it (I tried, but failed) ...
With Shaolin Greetings,
Dorit
... alles, alles, alles ist doch auf Liebe aufgebaut ..." (Ellen Auerbach, 1997)
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