Keep it short

[altariel]

A meme from communicator (who did Yeats), done so well too here by the_wild_iris (Ez Pound) and here by executrix (The Bard): write some well known lines in words of one beat each.

My turn!


That month ere May is worst, it blooms
In the dead land, it blurs
Once-thought and wish-thought, it stirs
Dull roots with spring rain.
The long dark kept us warm, it cloaked
Earth in blank snow, it fed
What's left of life with deep dried corms.
The heat caught us, it fell on the peaks and the lake
With a shock of rain; we stopped in the shade of stone trees,
And went on in the sun, to the court,
And took tea, and talked for an hour.
Ich bin nicht Russe, ich bin Nord, echt deutsch.
And when we were young, guests of the arch-duke,
Blood of my blood, he took me out on a sled,
And I was scared. He said, May,
May, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the heights, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south at the fall of the year.


My brain hurts...

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

what she said!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ta!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Most of it is Tom's and Herr A. helped lots!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

You are very clever.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Aw, that was great! A hard verse to take on, too.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you like! - it was quite hard... I have to stop this one beat thing...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Narcissus. Armamentarium. Mannikin.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Antidisestablishmentarianism!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

N-tert-butyl-decahydro-2-[2(R)-hydroxy-4-phenyl-3(S)-[[N-(2-quinolylcarbonyl)-L-asparaginyl]amino]butyl]-(4aS,8aS)-isoquinoline-3(S)-carboxamide

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*contented sigh*

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

What is that, btw?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Saquinavir, the first HIV protease inhibitor.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Bravo!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Will you have a go?

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

For now can't think of one to do.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

You will like these, I bet.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

I thought I might give Oh God Please by George Bert a go, but it rhymes and has five feet to a line, so I think I might have bit off more than I can chew. It might be a while ...

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

It's done. Ouch.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

That's a cool meme!!!!!!

I just did it in my LJ, with Percy Shelley's Ozymandias.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It is a lot of fun to try - if quite hard. I like your verse!

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like. I think this game lays bare the sense of the words, and the choice of words in the old verse. It picks a verse to bits. This too.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think you are right. And verse I can just cope with, but this? Much more hard.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I can't keep it up in normal posts, got to get back to my native tongue! It felt exactly like doing a translation. Perhaps translating the poetry is easier because of the space that's open for meaning in the multiple senses of words... when I'm trying to explain myself, I need more precision.