In
today’s prompt,
Jeff Griffin asks us to take text from a poetry book we admire and translate it
back and forth five times into different languages using Google Translate.
I
chose one of my favourite books, full of exciting vocabulary, wild lyrical
phrases, a book with an inclination toward the dark. I gleaned from only the
prologue and one section because time.
here is the poem i created:
The Racket Ghost
the racket ghost is physical in black & purple pine skin
the racket ghost shears back ten positions
the racket ghost honeys syrup & misses hemlock
the racket ghost drinks from a froid bottle
the racket ghost feathers a marrubiu of smoke
the racket ghost is smoky cherry tar
the racket ghost in the window
the racket ghost unsummons slick wet skin
the racket ghost and the white witch fracture water
Source Text from Sandra Ridley, Post-Apothecary (Pedlar Press, 2011), Rest-cure
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by mouth an onslaught of nights her hand swept over a bright eye out the
dilated corner of nightshade wormwood hawthorn a peck of stones camphour doused
fold of wool the smell of two kinds of heat corset unstrung plum cordial a
tumbler of cold water uninhabited hollow a starveling sidelong glance pale
opiate mirror wrought spin fetch spins liminal glooms cryptic linen wrapped a
lick of rain silk or lithic tone cocoon of luna moth or star shroud
tenterhooked and breathless clockwise he loves her counts ten back from a dark
vapouring lambs wool under her walking skirt she slipped listless o honey o
syrup of violets hemlock pasteboard pocket flask a sang froid somatic
apparition the racket of spinning rooms black and violet pine planks cat skin
wound slick wet fur white witch smouldering pitch horehound and tar feather
cherry smoke she unsummons him slat board window crack tainted lake and bramble
shade
Hindi
मुंह
से
नहीं
के
बराबर
रातों
उसके
हाथ
एक
उज्ज्वल
आँख
पर
बह
बाहर
अंधेरा
नागदौन
की
फैली
हुई
कोने
के
एक
हमले
नागफनी
पत्थर
कपूर
की
एक
चुम्बन
ऊन
के
गुना
गर्मी
कोर्सेट
खुला
बेर
सौहार्दपूर्ण
ठंडे
पानी
निर्जन
खोखला
एक
का
एक
गिलास
के
दो
प्रकार
की
गंध
doused दरिद्र
ढालू
नज़र
पीला
नशा
दर्पण
गढ़ा
स्पिन
लाने
spins liminal glooms गुप्त सनी
उसे
चलने
स्कर्ट
के
नीचे
बारिश
रेशम
या
लूना
कीट
या
स्टार
कफन
tenterhooks और बेदम
दक्षिणावर्त
वह
प्यार
करता
है
के
lithic स्वर
कोकून
का
एक
चाटना
उसकी
एक
अंधेरे
डींगिया
भेड़
के
बच्चे
ऊन
से
वापस
मायने
रखता
दस
लपेटा
वह
ओ
के
violets हेमलोक
मोटा
जेब
कुप्पी
एक
शहद
ओ
सिरप
उदासीन
फिसल
गाया
FROID दैहिक
प्रेत
कताई
कमरों
रैकेट
काले
और
बैंगनी
पाइन
शबाना
बिल्ली
त्वचा
पिच
horehound और टार
पंख
चेरी
धुआं
सुलगने
वह
उसे
बोर्ड
खिड़की
हवा
का
झोंका
unsummons चालाक गीला
फर
सफेद
डायन
घाव
दागी
झील
फड़बेरी
छाया
दरार
Catalan
embolicar
la llana cap enrere deu càrrecs o o un xarop de mel violetes nostàlgics cicuta
lliscar el greix extreta del matràs butxaca Froid sales de spinning somàtica
fantasma de raqueta to negre i porpra taulons de pi de la pell del gat i el
marrubí plomall de fum de quitrà de cirera fumejants seu tauler finestra de
lames unsummons taca de pell mullada bruixa blanca ferida contaminada ombra
esquerda llac esbarzer
Scots
Gaelic
suaineadh
a 'chlòimh air ais deich dreuchdan agus mil sioraip purpaidh cianalas hemlock
shleamhnaich an t-saill a tharraing bho Flasg pòcaid Froid seòmraichean snìomh
somatic taibhse racket gu dubh agus purpaidh dèile giuthais craiceann cat agus
Marrubiu plume toit teàrr a làn ceothaidh cherry pannal uinneag slats unsummons
Slick fliuch craiceann geal a 'bhana-bhuidseach fo sgàil sgàineadh lot a
thruailleadh loch preas
Icelandic
vefja
ull aftur um tíu stöður og hunang síróp fjólublár fortíðarþrá HEMLOCK runnið úr
fitu úr Flaskan vasa FROID herbergja snúast líkamlegur draugur gauragangur að
svart og fjólublátt bjálkann furu húð kött og Marrubiu Plume af reyk tar Smoky
kirsuberjatómötum Panel gluggi slats unsummons Slick blauta húðina hvíta
langlúru skuggi sprunga sár mengað vatn Bush
Thai
ตัดขนกลับสิบตำแหน่งและน้ำเชื่อมน้ำผึ้งสีม่วงคิดถึงก้าวล่วงเข้าไปลื่นไขมันจากห้อง
FROID กระเป๋าขวดหันหน้าไปทางแร็กเกตผีทางกายภาพในสีดำและสีม่วงไม้สนผิวแมวและขนนก
Marrubiu ของควัน tar Smoky เชอร์รี่หน้าต่างแผงแผ่น
unsummons เนียนผิวที่เปียกแม่มดขาวเงา บาดแผลร้าวน้ำที่ปนเปื้อนบุช
English
Shearing
back ten positions and honey syrup purple miss Hemlock slippery grease from
FROID bottle pockets facing racket ghost physical in black and purple pine skin
a cat and feather Marrubiu of smoke, tar Smoky cherry. window panels unsummons
slick wet skin white Witch. Traumatic fracture water contaminated with Bush.
Thanks
to Jeff Griffin for this prompt. I love using Google Translate but haven’t done
so in this way before. It’s refreshing.
Play
along!
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
For those of you who are just joining us, The Found Poetry Review is celebrating National Poetry Month by offering daily experimental writing prompts from writers. I will be responding to them at poetic whim.
2 comments:
It was an intensely fun prompt (the results are mind blowing), wasn't it?
yeah, definitely. you have to really open your mind for these prompts, which i love.
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