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Papuan Tok Pisin Poem

by sunnilicious



Pik-sa blan yu lan ga-las
E-mi na-I-spla po-em blan mi
Ta-sol, i mas ha-ri-ap, em bai lus
E-mi las-pe-la bi-an mi, Mi laik-im yu

Picture plain life with some love
Boring, but you write poem nice way
Because you see happiness, that is right
Flowers grow from seed with water, this is life


 




Day 21, Writing prompt - Find a poem in a language that you do not know, and perform a homophonic translation on it. The poem may not be credible as the languages are different, and the rewrite is based on sound.

Note: I watched a video a couple months back about a boy saved from a life of cannibalism in Papua New Guinea. I thought the country was Native Indians, but there are Jungle People too. I decided to play with a poem from that country. I clumped the people of this country as a whole. And I found a poem from Papua New Guinea. The language is called Tok Pisin.





REFERENCES:
1) National Poetry Writing Month, April 2020 - http://www.napowrimo.net/
2) Papau Love Poem - http://love.poem.free.fr/papuan-poems/papuan-poem.html


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