(2 January 2018)
Japanese
National Poetry Writing Month, Day #30
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. Seeing as how the closest thing I have to poetry in a foreign language is my small-ish collection of Japanese albums, and I do have experience translating Japanese, I chose as my poem a song by Nav Katze.
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Spring breeze haiku (A poem)
National Poetry Writing Month starts on Friday. …
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A summer haiku
I recently found that Hulu has a few current Japanese dramas available for streaming. While watching one last night, during a scene in which two of the main characters are listening to the sounds of cicadas in a park, I came up with a haiku.
An actual articulate spam comment (an aside)
This spam comment was waiting for me this morning:
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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #29 (April 29, 2013)
Today’s prompt is to write a poem using at least five words from other languages. I spent five years living in Tokyo after college, so I decided to just try writing something in Japanese. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 