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Under Your Spell

Mi-Juin et rien - blog vide. Et maintentant, j'ecris en Francais? Pretentious poetry drips over me.. shin shin to . I don't even know what this post is about. I can't stop listening to Desire's Under Your Spell thanks to someone.. I'm under my own spell. Mon esprit a le besoin d'etre ressenti sur papier.. well.. screen. I'm muddled in languages. Last night I heard muddled Japanese as I tried to fall asleep. Arabic filters through during the day. aaaaaayna al samaka? I hear with the intonation of the teaching program. No one would talk like that, but the words are like a song. I'd like to think this post is like a complex poem, but it's mostly my rambling thoughts.. hey, that can be art too.. I will go back to normal soon. I have a post about places coming up, and their magnet effect on me... Yes.. places that keep me... under their spell. Un cercle complet? Is this what it means to be human? Taste first with your eyes, then with ...

New blog! - Lost in Linguistics

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Puhutko sinä englantia? Hello all! This will be a very short post. I mentioned in passing in previous posts that I was learning languages. I have now created a blog about that! I will be writing about my goals, achievements, the things I find difficult.. The learning journey, basically! Here is my introduction post , and here I wrote about my first week (and resources used). -- Are you also learning a language? Do you blog about it? Let me know in the comments below!

Foxes, and Poetry in Translation

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Foxes are flavour of the month It is the month of foxes. Search Twitter for #FoxyFeb , and you will find photographs, artwork, poetry.. all about foxes. I've been participating; contributing my own art, and sharing poems I've discovered. As I have been learning Arabic since last May, I wanted to link poetry, Arabic, and foxes. As it was, it didn't take much effort on my part. I'd asked for Arabic poetry recommendations on Twitter, and was not disappointed. @TigersSterne You might want to look through the poetry here: http://t.co/kt0mxONiSe al-Saddiq al-Raddi, for instance. — M. Lynx Qualey (@arablit) February 9, 2014 One of the poems written by al-Saddiq al-Raddi was titled " Small Fox ": Suddenly - a small fox, playful, floods your wounded heart with joy He searches your face with his singular gaze, knows you're at one with his vagabond stance  ثعلبٌ صغيرٌ يمرحُ في قلبكِ الملوَّث  أَفلحَ في الهطول تلك الليلةْ وجهُكِ ...

#22 - Difference

Used this prompt  again. I love languages, so this prompt appeals to me! 違い Auttakaa minua! I cannot travel This road alone. Regarde le ciel. Grey like the eyes Of your long-lost friend. Så sorgligt. Vieni con me To the land of secrets Behind the  sléibhte. There, I know, Hides your truth. Perhaps even the door of حب