ok, ok! I'm getting past this phase
So much effort
for a worthless man
and a broken heart
You are blind
Amid fake tears
and hideous chatter
familiar shores are betrayed
Go! be deceived
Piteous, foolish girl
who lets garbage love
thieve her family security
or
So muchel peyne
for a drasty swayn
and a brosten herte
Ye be blent
Midst feyne teeres
and loothly jangle
kynly strondes be wreyed
Gooth! be blent
Scathe veyn mayden
who suffren mullok luv
pykpurs hir kyn warente
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
Get past this phaseOriginally Posted by Delta40
if you must
at our peril.
Who else will write to us
from Chaucer's time, or
so succinctly, of our own?
Thank you Prince. I feel that I inflict this curiosity upon you all. I will worry less about my audience in this respect from now on.
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
As I've said before I love your Middle English, though I don't think this is one of your better pieces. I think there's something lost in the translation of this one; it lacks the wittiness of the ME. I do wish I could hear these read aloud. Maybe you should start putting up audio files of yourself reading them!
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." --Carl Gustav Jung
"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." --Neil Gaiman; The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists
"I'm on my way, from misery to happiness today. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" --The Proclaimers
I like it in both languages. Delta, tell me again, did you take a class in this? Because it is another language at this point, and I'm trying to figure out how you do it.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Very cool!
"Remember, we are all in this alone." - Lilly Tomlin
I am not taught so I know I am not following the ME rules (whatever they may be!) Call it Midern English!
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
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