Poetry competition CLOSED 14th October 2014 12:08pm
WINNER
sektioN8ty (King Sammy)
sektioN8ty (King Sammy)
RUNNER-UP:
johnrot
International Flavors
Anonymous
Thank you JR, if it's melting pot then you're in the right place.
Malin, thanks again.
Malin, thanks again.
empiezo a vivir
te dejo entrar
romper mis miedos
nada más difícil
carry me on
you can carry me on
erase the painful memories
give me hope again
just carry me on
nire eskuak altxatu dut
bizitzeko hasten naiz
zuk utzi dut
nire beldurrak hautsi
ezer zailago
lead me on
y que tus labios se vuelvan
nire arima gainerako
don't ever let me go
y que tus brazos se vuelvan
nire izatearen gainerako
(English, Spanish, Basque)
here's another that might be off topic but this has some Latin in it
THE EXTERMINATING BEAST
The exterminating beast waits in deep shadows
For the right time to strike
Morbid tales of necromancy
Are sung in secret beyond the light
Her name is legendary
Spoken with rhyme with sins and delight
All Hallow’s Eve blurs the lines
Between the living and the dead
Demonic and divine
Monsters hurry away when
She arrives for her feeding
Consuming the flesh with sin
Pumpkins scream in eerie silence
A chorus unheard in ages since
Blasphemers in seizures redeeming
Reavers and angels who fret and wince
The empty void, is devoid
Of fleshly caress and the human coil
Exterminate, dominate
The creature feature that seal your fate
Per sanguinem luna
Necromantici fabulantur
Morbidum prohibentur
In domo ruinas idolorum
The exterminating beast,
A succubus in your chambers
There for a little piece
Cloven hooves and raven hair
A whip-crack of her devil tail
Leaves me lusting in despair
She comes in a burial shroud
I am entranced, my soul is bound
Blasphemers and grievers condemning
Dreamers floating among the clouds
And with disdain, so profane
The treasure geysers crimson and insane
Annihilate, germinate
The phantom tantrum quickly salivates
Per sanguinem luna
Necromantici fabulantur
Morbidum prohibentur
In domo ruinas idolorum
In graveyard leathers
She flaunts, untethered
To men in love
Or gods above
To suck and fuck
The meat of gods in luck
Venomous and pure
Undiluted cure
To kill the weak
Upon the peaks
Engorged, deformed
A crimson beauty
Horns betwixt a broken halo
In malis eius in amplexus
Religantur prohibetur carnis perversiones
Deus in domibus sub oculis
Absinthium incensum ardet in cubicula
Et execratis, et gloriosus
A bloodied whore
Outside of the door
The gods had scorned
A virgin torn
To thrall in awe
Men in their mating calls
Bruised knees n the soil
When her wings unfurled
She feeds on meat
There on her seat
Bleached bones, enthroned
A demon beauty
Thorns betwixt her sunken treasures
And with a great raping of faith
You become but a wraith
To drift with silent screams
Between nightmares and dreams
At the turning of each
Blood moon burning brightly
She comes, ravenous
The exterminating beast
--- exterminating beast...
The exterminating beast
SHE FEEDS!
translated by Google
During the blood moon
Necromancers tell tales
Morbid and forbidden
In the house of fallen idols
In her wicked embrace
Forbidden carnal perversions unbound
In houses under the eye of god
Wormwood incense burns in the chamber of
The vile and the beautiful
THE EXTERMINATING BEAST
The exterminating beast waits in deep shadows
For the right time to strike
Morbid tales of necromancy
Are sung in secret beyond the light
Her name is legendary
Spoken with rhyme with sins and delight
All Hallow’s Eve blurs the lines
Between the living and the dead
Demonic and divine
Monsters hurry away when
She arrives for her feeding
Consuming the flesh with sin
Pumpkins scream in eerie silence
A chorus unheard in ages since
Blasphemers in seizures redeeming
Reavers and angels who fret and wince
The empty void, is devoid
Of fleshly caress and the human coil
Exterminate, dominate
The creature feature that seal your fate
Per sanguinem luna
Necromantici fabulantur
Morbidum prohibentur
In domo ruinas idolorum
The exterminating beast,
A succubus in your chambers
There for a little piece
Cloven hooves and raven hair
A whip-crack of her devil tail
Leaves me lusting in despair
She comes in a burial shroud
I am entranced, my soul is bound
Blasphemers and grievers condemning
Dreamers floating among the clouds
And with disdain, so profane
The treasure geysers crimson and insane
Annihilate, germinate
The phantom tantrum quickly salivates
Per sanguinem luna
Necromantici fabulantur
Morbidum prohibentur
In domo ruinas idolorum
In graveyard leathers
She flaunts, untethered
To men in love
Or gods above
To suck and fuck
The meat of gods in luck
Venomous and pure
Undiluted cure
To kill the weak
Upon the peaks
Engorged, deformed
A crimson beauty
Horns betwixt a broken halo
In malis eius in amplexus
Religantur prohibetur carnis perversiones
Deus in domibus sub oculis
Absinthium incensum ardet in cubicula
Et execratis, et gloriosus
A bloodied whore
Outside of the door
The gods had scorned
A virgin torn
To thrall in awe
Men in their mating calls
Bruised knees n the soil
When her wings unfurled
She feeds on meat
There on her seat
Bleached bones, enthroned
A demon beauty
Thorns betwixt her sunken treasures
And with a great raping of faith
You become but a wraith
To drift with silent screams
Between nightmares and dreams
At the turning of each
Blood moon burning brightly
She comes, ravenous
The exterminating beast
--- exterminating beast...
The exterminating beast
SHE FEEDS!
translated by Google
During the blood moon
Necromancers tell tales
Morbid and forbidden
In the house of fallen idols
In her wicked embrace
Forbidden carnal perversions unbound
In houses under the eye of god
Wormwood incense burns in the chamber of
The vile and the beautiful
GROWING UP SUCKS!
Nilipokuwa mchanga,life was raha mu starehe
nilivalishwa,nilitunzwa
I was fed,spoiled,
Anything i wanted nilipewa.
With growing up changes nazo zikaknock
Lazima nioshe hao,do laundry,cook ndio nipate favour from mathe
mbuyu naye i have to trim the fence ama nimfanyie thesis so i can have his Porsche for a weekend
Bro can't loan me without demanding nipolish smelly boots zake kwanza!
Oh how i long for those simple times of yesterday
i was a baby,entitled to whatever lil.princess alitaka
Now chochote kile nahitaji i have to work my ass off ndio nipate
If i knew growing up will sucks this much,ningesalia kuwa mtoto milele!
(Done in English,Swahili and Sheng(Kenyan slang))
Nilipokuwa mchanga,life was raha mu starehe
nilivalishwa,nilitunzwa
I was fed,spoiled,
Anything i wanted nilipewa.
With growing up changes nazo zikaknock
Lazima nioshe hao,do laundry,cook ndio nipate favour from mathe
mbuyu naye i have to trim the fence ama nimfanyie thesis so i can have his Porsche for a weekend
Bro can't loan me without demanding nipolish smelly boots zake kwanza!
Oh how i long for those simple times of yesterday
i was a baby,entitled to whatever lil.princess alitaka
Now chochote kile nahitaji i have to work my ass off ndio nipate
If i knew growing up will sucks this much,ningesalia kuwa mtoto milele!
(Done in English,Swahili and Sheng(Kenyan slang))
TOO LATE FOR SORRY.
Two years,5 months and thirteen days of silence and zuivere agony
each dag afvraagt contemplating what is it i did so vile so verkeerde!
Hoe kon je vertrekken one month to our baby deliver without a trace?
Now you kneel and weep at my lap calling me baby baby baby
Say you sorry,you miss me and wanna come back home,"zorgen voor u en de baby."
Ik voel je regret and pijn,but what you and i had was just but an empty house.
Zijn uw bloed flowing in my son's veins,of course you will always have a place in my life
but the handsome man in that photo,hij is nu mijn familie,he is my life now,my whole world.
Het spijt me dear but there hardly any future in my past.
You are most welcome to see Jamal,je bent zijn vader,he doesn't have to pay for our shortcomings
but he already has a dad,a beautiful man who would give his life for him,so worry not bout bailing voor zijn 5de verjaardag.
Yea ik weet dat je het jammer zijn,but it time for you to leave,my wonderful boys will be home any time soon.
(Done in English and Dutch)
Two years,5 months and thirteen days of silence and zuivere agony
each dag afvraagt contemplating what is it i did so vile so verkeerde!
Hoe kon je vertrekken one month to our baby deliver without a trace?
Now you kneel and weep at my lap calling me baby baby baby
Say you sorry,you miss me and wanna come back home,"zorgen voor u en de baby."
Ik voel je regret and pijn,but what you and i had was just but an empty house.
Zijn uw bloed flowing in my son's veins,of course you will always have a place in my life
but the handsome man in that photo,hij is nu mijn familie,he is my life now,my whole world.
Het spijt me dear but there hardly any future in my past.
You are most welcome to see Jamal,je bent zijn vader,he doesn't have to pay for our shortcomings
but he already has a dad,a beautiful man who would give his life for him,so worry not bout bailing voor zijn 5de verjaardag.
Yea ik weet dat je het jammer zijn,but it time for you to leave,my wonderful boys will be home any time soon.
(Done in English and Dutch)
Anonymous
Shee luvs roachiss beetlez--da schort verzion
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah
And with a love like that
You know you should be glad
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Und witta luv lyke dat
Youse no Youse schood bee gahlad
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah
She loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah
And with a love like that
You know you should be glad
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Shee luvz yew yeah yeah yeah
Und witta luv lyke dat
Youse no Youse schood bee gahlad
Sharing transnational traditions
When you eat mămăligă
I must understand polenta
While I thought polenta was a romanian word
When I eat some cuisses de grenouille
You are horrified by our wild tradition
Though most frogs come from Romania"?
When I wear an élégante cravate
You are proud of me, saying "Care barbat superb!"
Even though I wear a tie, only one or two times a year
When you wear o frumoasa rochie albă
I am in love with you, just able to say "mon amour!"
You are forever so beautiful to me
When you saw me for the first time
I am sure you asked : "care este acest tip?"
It was two years ago and you love me now
When I saw you for the first time
I already knew : "c'est elle"
And I knew it was the truth because "c'est l'amour!"
"dragoste, pentru totdeauna!"
"l'amour, pour toujours!"
"love, forever!"
Obviously English, Romanian and French languages
Be mine baby
Ha umulok ha Ukak,
Ku shi ba yhin,
Uyhin tetek,
katakuru uti ishe na ta,
wanu yha, uta?
Your opinion about our future is far below an iota of consequence,
we are one,
heavens knows and it echoes Amen
Ki na ba ni chiwon kai
Domin ina son ki
Ki san samsin ki kuwa?
Tana sa ni in ja kamar miya
You cause me aches,
because I love you,
you make your grip in my arms slippery like okro soup
Chineke eme o,
Akara,
Amarachi, you no bi ochicha
Ewoh,
Wa zo bia
Wa adeola
Na mi bi kabiasi
Prostrate with love like servant to a king-god
Ajeboh abi na butti
Love wan tin tin
I no send weda na agbiro or kpako,
ol na love, and me go kpai for you
I swear try me make you see.
I'll live sacrificially for you
I'll die for you when it matters
I love you with my all
I'll profess my love for you,
legendarily like John in all of me.
ma chérie ,
tu m'aimes ?
Moi aussi, je t'aime,
épouse-moi,
laisse vivre éternellement.
(Poem written in saveral Nigerian languages;
Rukuba(my mother tongue)
Igbo(one of Nigerian Major)
Hausa " " "
Yoruba " " "
Warri-inglish( spoken by illiterates in Nigeria)
French(compulsory in elimentary school) and ofcourse British-English (Nigerian official language)
I speak most of them fluently, my french is average though....
Ha umulok ha Ukak,
Ku shi ba yhin,
Uyhin tetek,
katakuru uti ishe na ta,
wanu yha, uta?
Your opinion about our future is far below an iota of consequence,
we are one,
heavens knows and it echoes Amen
Ki na ba ni chiwon kai
Domin ina son ki
Ki san samsin ki kuwa?
Tana sa ni in ja kamar miya
You cause me aches,
because I love you,
you make your grip in my arms slippery like okro soup
Chineke eme o,
Akara,
Amarachi, you no bi ochicha
Ewoh,
Wa zo bia
Wa adeola
Na mi bi kabiasi
Prostrate with love like servant to a king-god
Ajeboh abi na butti
Love wan tin tin
I no send weda na agbiro or kpako,
ol na love, and me go kpai for you
I swear try me make you see.
I'll live sacrificially for you
I'll die for you when it matters
I love you with my all
I'll profess my love for you,
legendarily like John in all of me.
ma chérie ,
tu m'aimes ?
Moi aussi, je t'aime,
épouse-moi,
laisse vivre éternellement.
(Poem written in saveral Nigerian languages;
Rukuba(my mother tongue)
Igbo(one of Nigerian Major)
Hausa " " "
Yoruba " " "
Warri-inglish( spoken by illiterates in Nigeria)
French(compulsory in elimentary school) and ofcourse British-English (Nigerian official language)
I speak most of them fluently, my french is average though....
Dad, don't leave
Ka zo ba ka dade ba sai ka bi ka tashi kuma?
Inda haka ake yin ta da na bar kasar nan zuwa wurin da bazaku gan ni ba ai
You left me an infant,
I hardly even knew you when you came back,
and now in less than three years you've been transferred again?
Haba baba na,
baba da dadi,
ama wani dadi ka kabani?
Oh dada, i wish I'll never outgrow calling you that..
Ina son ka daga zuchi ta
Ubangiji kijai ya sani,
I'll miss you again..
I'm grown now dad,
maybe when next we meet again I'll be a father by then,
your grand kids will be the ones yelling out; baba da dadi.
Written in Hausa and English
Ka zo ba ka dade ba sai ka bi ka tashi kuma?
Inda haka ake yin ta da na bar kasar nan zuwa wurin da bazaku gan ni ba ai
You left me an infant,
I hardly even knew you when you came back,
and now in less than three years you've been transferred again?
Haba baba na,
baba da dadi,
ama wani dadi ka kabani?
Oh dada, i wish I'll never outgrow calling you that..
Ina son ka daga zuchi ta
Ubangiji kijai ya sani,
I'll miss you again..
I'm grown now dad,
maybe when next we meet again I'll be a father by then,
your grand kids will be the ones yelling out; baba da dadi.
Written in Hausa and English
Anonymous
The comp will be extended by one more week due to some private requests.
Thanks for all the great entries of introducing different flavors and there will be numerous judges to accommodate all the languages submitted..including Roachmill's
Thanks for all the great entries of introducing different flavors and there will be numerous judges to accommodate all the languages submitted..including Roachmill's
Anonymous
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The Hunt
Wetin u dey fil like, James Bond abi afto?
wen I nak yo head comot for neck,
na him yo eye go clear
Yo go dey see me koro-koro ontop yo mata
Zan mar da kai mota na
Zan mar da kai abun tuki
Ba soya ya ba?
Za ka ci ta har zuwa koshiya.
I fall of like broken fetters
In defeat I lay dead
My grave smells the sacrifice
An oath- evil has made to it.
What is forever?
Mene ne duniya?
Na gaji ma wahalar nan
I'm not gone to forever
I'll come back soon and hunt you
Wraith on your case, hounds.......
Demon screams, your appetite for freedom
Ghost riding after your fallen knight chariot.
I'll come in vengence,
With reinforced crew of avengers,
Horror za zo gidan ka kaman ba gobe
Now that's what we call gobe.
I seek your kai da karfi da yaji
Inshi nye wulu nu kunku
Iyhi ho?
ku kafin inyhe.. .
In the dark dreadful street
Amidst the walking dead
Ami inlik nu kunkun.
(Hausa, Rukuba, pigin and English)
Wetin u dey fil like, James Bond abi afto?
wen I nak yo head comot for neck,
na him yo eye go clear
Yo go dey see me koro-koro ontop yo mata
Zan mar da kai mota na
Zan mar da kai abun tuki
Ba soya ya ba?
Za ka ci ta har zuwa koshiya.
I fall of like broken fetters
In defeat I lay dead
My grave smells the sacrifice
An oath- evil has made to it.
What is forever?
Mene ne duniya?
Na gaji ma wahalar nan
I'm not gone to forever
I'll come back soon and hunt you
Wraith on your case, hounds.......
Demon screams, your appetite for freedom
Ghost riding after your fallen knight chariot.
I'll come in vengence,
With reinforced crew of avengers,
Horror za zo gidan ka kaman ba gobe
Now that's what we call gobe.
I seek your kai da karfi da yaji
Inshi nye wulu nu kunku
Iyhi ho?
ku kafin inyhe.. .
In the dark dreadful street
Amidst the walking dead
Ami inlik nu kunkun.
(Hausa, Rukuba, pigin and English)
International variations around the quote inside "Le bourgeois gentihomme", by Molière "Belle Marquise, vos beaux yeux me font mourir d'amour"
Belle Marquise, vos beaux yeux me font mourir d'amour
Wunderbare Dame, Ihre glänzenden Augen ziehen mich wie ein Schmetterling
Minunata domnișoara, ochii tai drăguți m-a poarta către paradis
Exquisite girl, your alluring eyes call my soul to its sweet doom
Translation :
Beautiful Marquise, your lovely eyes make me die of love (from french)
Wonderful lady, your splendid eyes attract me like a butterfly (from german)
Marvellous miss, your pretty eyes carry me to paradise (from romanian)
Exquisite girl, your alluring eyes call my soul to its sweet doom (from english)
