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Today's Daily Create:
#tdc5014 #ds106 Translate a poem into English and share it with us
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“Translate” a poem into English from a language with which you have limited familiarity. Be attentive to the texture of the language and allow your immediate impulses about what the words mean inform your interpretation. Be sure not to look at an English translation until you have finished writing your imagined translation.
@creating #tdc5014 #ds106 I started looking at poems this morning, but the day changed course rapidly. We are just home from telling N's aunt that his mum died this morning. So this, from Ibn al-Ḥaddād
People are like bubbles
Time, depths beyond sounding
One world floats in foam
One world’s light is drowning
الناس مثل حباب والدهر لجّة ماء
فعالَمٌ في طفُوًّ وعالَمٌ في آنطفاء
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