It has been a short while now since i started learning french. In each class we write a short essay or a poem for about five lines in whatever broken language we know using the little vocabulary we have learnt. I think i should call it my 'first poems' instead of 'first french poems because i think it is my first ever concrete poem i have written apart from the kiddish- 'i have a fish, that lives in a dish' or 'untie my hair, do it with care...'

Okay, incase your good at french you better ignore the errors especially the axions that have just disappeared from many alphabets. Our teacher does he same. She treats us like small kids- whatever errors we commit, she patiently corrects them all and we would probably have a million red marks on the page but still she would generously write a 'tres bein', 'superbe' or 'excellente' at the end (awwwww!!).

So here goes...

Toutes les personnes je connais
Mes chiens- le que j’aime.
La cuisine que je mange
L’aire que je sent.
Les moments de joie
Les moments de tristesse.
Fait ma vie une belle place.


All the people i know
My dogs that i love
The food i eat
The air i breathe
The moments of joy
The moments of sorrow
Make my life a beautiful place.

Le soleil se levers
Le soleil se coucher
Mais ici, rien des changers!
Les nations toujours combattre,
Les personnes toujours pleurer.

Which means :
The sun comes up
The sun goes down.
But here, nothing changes.
Nations still fight,
People still fight.

Well, i know the second one is very pessimistic, very meloncholic and very unlike me. this is how it worked- the teacher asked us to write a poem using any of these topics as a theme- sun, moon, stars or night. i could only think of this. hmmm...weird but i wonder why i wrote this also. But I am happy about it. ;-)

The theme for the first one was however any word we learnt in the days class. We had learnt 'life' and 'beautiful'. And then after some thinking(which i do not do normally) and translation of randm words (that i thought would rhyme) ..... the poem evolved!! funny so I had added a 'hehe' at the end of the first poem, and the teacher scratched it out. really, what is wrong with people not being able to appreciate a 4 letter word which is cute for a change!

[here goes- hehe ;-) ]