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Short Translation Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Translation by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Translation by length and keyword.


Vidi, Veni, Et Vicit
a simple
translation
of romance

i saw
i came
she conquered...

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Categories: translation, muse,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member In Translation
Lend me an ear
For I'm deaf.... dumb
Moot? Please,
Words are lost
In translation...

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Categories: translation, lost, words,
Form: Prose
Sonnet 1 By William Shakespeare In Ukrainian Translation
https://allpoetry.com/topic/show/269023028-Sonnet%201.%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%201....

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Categories: translation, father son, friendship, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Lost In Translation Haiku

the bird tweets  - on my
     morning walk ~ a haiku's pause

  brings pen to paper...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: translation, analogy, appreciation, inspiration, nature, perspective, poetry, poets,
Form: Haiku
Lost - Haiku 2
you perceive aggression although I portray passion lost in translation
...

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Categories: translation, anger, emotions, lost, passion,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Beginning Or End
these three lines so terse
are they a 'beginning verse'*
to something much worse

*translation of haiku...

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Categories: translation, on writing and words
Form: Haiku
Premium Member It Is Gibberish To Me
you pen poetry
in a foreign dialect
without translation
without rhyme without reason
it is gibberish to me...

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Categories: translation, language,
Form: Tanka
Diotimus Translation
Stripped of her stripling, if asked, she’d confess:
“I am now less than nothingness.”
—Diotimus, translation by Michael R. Burch...

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Categories: translation, mother,
Form: Epigram
Rustler of Graves
Translation,
  the executioner of emotion,
  —and rustler of graves

(Chicago Illinois: Water Tower with Studs Terkel—July, 1977)...

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Categories: translation, language,
Form: Free verse
Supportive Parents
My umbrella’s my mother,
My raincoat is my father
In my life’s rainy weather.

Form: Diona
Translation of Raymond Pambit’s poem....

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Categories: translation, parents,
Form: Verse
' Language Lesson Learned ... ' 59th Senryu
‘ Language Lesson Learned … ’   59th  Senryu



    I Don’t ‘ Speak ’ Evil
I Don’t ‘ Understand ’ Wicked
    Translation … Ended...

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Categories: translation, devotion, inspirational, introspection, life, on writing and
Form: Senryu
Miss Translation 2
i offered her 
as an offering
my special
homemade
marinara
sauce

she said she'd
gladly eat
my noodle
i said honey
i said
penne...

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Categories: translation, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Translation
Artistic impression
Existential expression

Metaphysical incantation
Telekinetic sensation

This needs more translation
Chaotic, obscure creation...

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Categories: translation, art, people, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lost In Translation
as of urge
we create
life’s moments

how to share
soul tremors
intimate

yet we pen
in symbols
heart’s emotes

24-March-2023
Tricube...

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Categories: translation, art, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member DER XL 1 poetic translation
original available to read here at archive.org/details/himmlischelibesk0000kuhl
Der XL1 page 54 thru 55 my translation of this in above youtube clip...

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Categories: translation, poetry, word play,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Transference
mind field in transit

lost in modern translation -

translucent echoes


30th January 2020

Senryu on Mind contest

Sponsor Jenish Somadas...

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Categories: translation, solitude,
Form: Senryu
Translation Parachute
she said
before
i die
i want
to jump
from a
plane
with a
parakeet

i said
if you
do do
that that
will be
the last
thing that
you will
do...

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Categories: translation, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Expressions
Les gens qui essayent peuvent échouer
Les gens qui n'essayent pas échouent


Translation

Those who try. may fail
Those who never try, are failures...

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Categories: translation, philosophy, success,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost in Translation?
I know a translator named Randy,
whose skill with dialects is dandy.
But I have the advantage
of knowing sign language,
and it really is quite handy.
...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: translation, language,
Form: Limerick
1-4
she was trying
to tell me 
something
but using
sign language
the complication
of translation
was she was
smiling while
giving me the
middle finger...

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Categories: translation, muse,
Form: I do not know?
T42 a Two Word Poem
i c u d,
r u c me,c
i drink t,
g u 2,c,
4 u d t
Translation:

I see you Dee,
Ah, you see me, "Si,"
I drink tea,
Gee, you too, "Si,"
For you Dee, tea....

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Categories: translation, funny, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Leonidas of Tarentum Translation
Blame not the gale, or the inhospitable sea-gulf, or friends’ tardiness,
mariner! Just man’s foolhardiness.
 
—Leonidas of Tarentum, translation by Michael R. Burch...

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Categories: translation, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Weekday Recitation
HEAVENLY KISS XL1


My dynamic paraphrase  translation excerpt of one of Quirinus Kulhmann's (A Christian sonneteer) series depicting the union of the soul with Christ...

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Categories: translation, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Adoration
A gushing response,
deeply forgiving.
Oral translation,
ripe for the picking.
ADORED AREN'T YOU?
Thrilling moments,
Isolation abating,
Overdone on the waiting,
now....

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Categories: translation, emotions, passion,
Form: I do not know?
Parmenio Translation
Be ashamed, O mountains and seas: these were men who drew valorous breath.
Assume, like pale chattels, an ashen silence at death.
 
—Parmenio, translation by Michael R. Burch...

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Categories: translation, war,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Reflection on the Important Things