Today's NaPoWriMo challenge is " to find, either on your shelves or online, a specialized dictionary. This could be, for example, a dictionary of nautical terms, or woodworking terms, or geology terms. Anything, really, so long as it’s not a standard dictionary! Now write a poem that incorporates at least ten words from your specialized source." Hm, thanks napowrimo, this will get me out of my too--long-sitting habit, but what is the dictionary. I don't think of one offhand, but, off the chair we go...the 'we' being hyperbole, or authorial preeminence, I suppose....
Ach, hier ist ein: a slender little GERMAN VEST POCKET DICTIONARY published by Random House--remember them?-- in 1959 and 67, containing forty thousand words. My ten, plucked out at random, are: wieder, adv, again; back, in return Morgendammerung, -en, n.f. dawn
eintrittt, -e, m, entrance
rennen, -, n.nt, race
weltweit, adj, world-wide
Trusting that 'race' in this case is a noun, my brain sets off toward a poem with the first five words. Obviously my fifty-plus years' lack of practice, after two mediocre years of college German, reveal a certain lack of Deutsch vocabulary and grammatical skills. Yikes. Corrections welcome! But it was fun to try.
Morgendammerung ist wieder zukommen,
und die weltweit rennen diesen tag musst wieder eintritt machen.
Wohin hast du gehen?
Wilst du wieder kommen?
Wann du wieder komst,
Dann hast treue Morgendammerung
im ganze weltweit kommen treue..
Ach, hier ist ein: a slender little GERMAN VEST POCKET DICTIONARY published by Random House--remember them?-- in 1959 and 67, containing forty thousand words. My ten, plucked out at random, are: wieder, adv, again; back, in return Morgendammerung, -en, n.f. dawn
eintrittt, -e, m, entrance
rennen, -, n.nt, race
weltweit, adj, world-wide
Trusting that 'race' in this case is a noun, my brain sets off toward a poem with the first five words. Obviously my fifty-plus years' lack of practice, after two mediocre years of college German, reveal a certain lack of Deutsch vocabulary and grammatical skills. Yikes. Corrections welcome! But it was fun to try.
Morgendammerung ist wieder zukommen,
und die weltweit rennen diesen tag musst wieder eintritt machen.
Wohin hast du gehen?
Wilst du wieder kommen?
Wann du wieder komst,
Dann hast treue Morgendammerung
im ganze weltweit kommen treue..
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