2008/09/08

An Anglish Poem - Casual Boaris in Qinna Aulympiad

Very much inspired by the poetic language invented by a Hongkong poet who won the third prize in the inaugural international poetry competition recently hosted by a poetry society in Glasgow, Scotland, and also by the four-legged heroine in the poetic story, of which a certain free wild kind I occasionally encounter in the wilderness, I have just made up the following 60 lines in the Chinese 4-line-verse form with 15 sets of rhymes.

These lines were improvised for fun only. There was no disrespect intended for the people, animals, beings, countries, city, language, events, place and venue mentioned.


Casual Boaris in Qinna Aulympiad

Aulympiad see Qinna host
----Qinna, for its first time, hosted the Aulympic Games
Angland next, join eager most
----Angland, to host the next Games, was the eagerest to
----participate
It send Boaris Lundon mayor
----It sent Boaris the Lundon mayor
Who like Qinnese less than ghost
----Who liked the Qinnese less than ghosts

Casual Boaris go to Qinna
----Casual Boaris went to Qinna
Take bus so he feel real thinner
----By taking the bus he really felt slimmer
Jump on Aursaur cuckoo nest
----He jumped onto Aursaur the cuckoo's nest
----(Author's speculation: Aursaur probably means golden dragon,
----aur, short for aurum, Latin word for gold; saur, short for

----dinosaur;
----the bird including the cuckoo is believed to descend from the

----dinosaur)
He tell Aursaur not for dinner
----He told Aursaur he didn't come for dinner

Who serve dinner? Aursaur ask
----Who serves you dinner? Aursaur said
Want you see this big, big task
----I only want you to see this very huge wonder
You short of pound, can't copy
----You are short of sterling pounds, you can't do the same back in
----Lundon
Feel you lose face, you wear mask
----If you think you lose face, you put on a mask

Vulgar Boaris say sod it!
----Vulgar Boaris said, sod it!
Want no nest with cuckoo shit
----Don't want a bird's nest with cuckoo droppings
Build on whose tree this monster?
----On top of whose tree was this monster built?
I know real well woodland tit
----I knew really well it was the woodland tit's

Woodland tit can't even cheep
----The woodland tit is not even allowed to cheep
Instead to fly they just creep
----Instead of flying they can only creep
You build Bird Nest not for bird
----You built the Bird's Nest not for the birds
But for dragon can go deep
----But for the dragons that can go into the deeps

Aursaur say, you boar so rude
----Aursaur said, you boar are so rude
Come to Qinna ruin good mood
----You came to Qinna to ruin the good mood for the Games
Want sell your red twin-decker
----If you want to sell your red double-decker buses
Button your lip and be good
----Button up your lips and be polite

Boaris Angland once world boss
----Boaris' Angland once was the world's super power
Poor, poor Qinna suffer loss
----Very poor Qinna then suffered losses
Angland acquire Fragrant Port
----Qinna's Fragrant Port was ceded to Angland to become a colony
Happy Valley rich with horse
----Happy Valley became rich with horse racing introduced from
----Darby, Angland

Boaris so proud of blue blood
----Boaris is so proud of his pedigree with a tiny percentage of the
----Anglish royalty
Never forget Yellow Flood
----He has never forgotten the history about Yellow Peril
Put his two hand in pocket
----He put his hands in his jacket's pockets in the formal ceremony
----to show that he didn't care a damn
No way I scrape your shoe mud
----And he thought, me to shine your shoes? No way!

Aursaur point him button loose
----Aursaur pointed at his stomach to remind him his buttons were
----not done up
He think not fat outrun goose
----He mistook it and denied he was fat, and he thought he could
----even outrun the geese
Boar shall be boar I take stand
----A boar shall always be a boar, I have to take a stand
Button up not Boaris choose
----Boaris chose not to do up the buttons

Boaris happy Aursaur not
----Boaris was happy and Aursaur was not
He see Aursaur face get hot
----He saw Aursaur's face get red
Aursaur real want his respect
----Aursaur really wanted his respect
Boaris pay him not one jot
----Boaris gave him not a bit

Aursaur learn one lesson dear
----Aursaur has learnt an expensive lesson
Boaris never can be peer
----That Boaris can never be a peer
Aursaur need least Anglophile
----Aursaur needs to be the least of an Anglophile
Boaris sure in Qinna fear
----Boaris certainly has Qinnophobia

Qinna fear now everywhere
----Qinnophobia is now everywhere
Make it enemy no one dare
----No country dares to make itself an enemy of Qinna
Arrogant Angland want differ
----Angland is arrogant that it wants to differ
Lundon have this casual mayor
----Lundon has this casual mayor just for the job

Boaris mayor no nice mare
----Boaris the mayor is not a nice mare, he is a boar
Boar be boar, boar play not fair
----Boars are boars, and boars don't play fair
Rude to Qinna help him up
----Being disrespectful to Qinna helps him ascend in position
High with fun he comb his hair
----Being high with fun he was willing to comb his hair

Aursaur know nothing too bad
----Aursaur knew there was nothing too bad
Boaris want drive Qinna mad
----Just Boaris wanted to drive Qinna mad
Qinna strong can't get Angland
----Even when Qinna has become strong, it can't pay Angland back
Only talk on history sad
----People can only talk about the sad history involving the two
----nations

Able Aursaur now know well
----Able Aursaur must have known it well now
Power, money may not sell
----Being powerful and a big spender might not earn one even
----superficial respect
What else after Aulympiad?
----What Qinna should do after the Aulympic achievements?
Vulgar Boaris almost tell
----There are some clues suggested by vulgar Boaris' behaviour

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