Homesick
Don't let them see you blink,
My mother said, that's why I bother to
step out when my eyes dry. My skill
with paint-brushes is clumsy. Colours blot
and spill, shining like sea foam on rocks;
the Professor wipes its glow
from my naked arms. Children whisper
behind starfish's arms. They go to play
on the sunny warm garden, but I stay in
as my mother told me. Underneath the window
there's an aquarium full of golden fish, that swirl,
swirl, following their own reflections.
I dip my finger to bring one up,
to see it glow and stir, cold in my hands.
And I dive my face deeper on the water.
My eyelids slide over my dry eyes.
I breathe, and breathe and breathe.
Translated from the original poem 'Homesick', by Salli Shepherd (:devsalshep:)
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Translated from the original poem 'Homesick', by Salli Shepherd (*salshep).
This is the third translation on the Poetry *TranslationChain first experiment. You can read all about it here. Chain 1 -- November 1 - 25 1 *FelixT English to German done  2 ~GuBCM German to Portuguese done  3 *S1mbelmyne Portuguese to English done  (just because it sounds like Pi)4 ~Bersaglio English to Italian 5 ~iThemba Italian to German 6 *endless-one German to Spanish 7 ~opiumsmoker Spanish to Latin 8 *NLY Latin to English 9 ~ordie English to Portuguese 10 *batousaijin Portuguese to French 11 ~DuilleogUaigneach French to English 12 ~Maly-Jo English to Spanish 13 ~AngelofGod87 Spanish to English 14 =Ronjana English to Dutch 15 ~Hongske Dutch to French 16 ~RagingGryphon French to English 17 ~AyumiFey English to Polish 18 ~hopelesswriter Polish to English 19 ~malicedomestic English to German 20 =chakrabird German to Danish 21 =Fladmose Danish to English 22 ~tigress-phan English to Dutch 23 ~Ailoura-aithe Dutch to English 24 ~ancient-seeker English to French 25 =lady-shirakawa French to English and now, go worship dictionary.com  |
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