Tay Bridge Disaster poem for Cazarey

[jacobitedreamer]

Originally posted by J-J
Lol Jacobitedreamer -glad you liked the poem btw - I was going to stop after 4 or 5 verses,but a certain person from the frozen tundra insisted I match the original

Re em and her germanic ancestry - don't even 'Goethe' !

Spiritual ancestry, hehehe! LOL

(Never mind, I´msuffering a bit from the heat over here and I am frustrated that I can´t watch the Irish play football against Saudi Arabia. I´m a single-person minority in this university, hehehe! All the others are watching the Germans play. Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!)

[J-J]

Spiritual ancestry? - oh yeah that whole teutonic thing
Are you supposting Ireland as well,Jacobitedreamer(as well as Germany I assume?)?
I'm supporting USA in this tournament - imagine if USA were drawn against England and USA won...that would be such a sweet sight lol!Highly unlikely of course.

[jacobitedreamer]

Originally posted by J-J
Spiritual ancestry? - oh yeah that whole teutonic thing
Are you supposting Ireland as well,Jacobitedreamer(as well as Germany I assume?)?
I'm supporting USA in this tournament - imagine if USA were drawn against England and USA won...that would be such a sweet sight lol!Highly unlikely of course.

I'm not supporting the Germans at all. Haughty and cruel players, overpaid and arrogant. Would have liked them to go home after the first play so that they learn their lesson this time.
My heart's with Ireland this time and I think your version is great, USA against England and USA winning. But Ireland vs. England and Ireland winning would be DRAMATIC!!!

By the way, what Teutonic thing are you talking of all the time?

But back to the topic:

Oh what cruel catastrophy
is often caused by poetry
when wine, not muse inspired him
that wrote these words with hasty pen.

No bread was left, the ale was gone,
the landlord sent him bills
So was the fatal error done
His pockets for to fill.

Away he went and sold his works
and published them with haste
But och, alas, his crooked words
were not arranged with taste.

But people thought his art was great
and filled his empty purse
the poor man found a happy fate
but poetry was cursed...

Have a laugh!

[J-J]

Nice verses Jacobitedreamer!I was just being cruel with mine but yours are actually quite good.
Btw your English is very good.Were you taught from an early age?
And the German football team sound a lot like the English football team from what you said!

[jacobitedreamer]

Hi, happy you liked the verses. They were the work of a minute, I did not really care about their quality. I think yours were better!!!

About my English, I am happy it is acceptable.
I am educating my daughter bilingual now, as I am planning to go to Scotland for some time and would need to take her with me... And I think it will do her good, as she is very keen on learning.

As for myself...
For more than twelve years now, almost all the books I read are written in English (or Spanish), most of my friends speak English or Spanish, the best research material on Scottish history and modern medicine - it is all in English. The three years I worked at a lawyer´s office I did all the correspondence with our "alien clients". So I have a lot of training and I have to admit that I am a wee language maniac... But I don´t like German too much, it is a harsh language which does not offer a broad range expressions when writing poetry or novels. It´s easier for me in English or Spanish...

[Cazarey]

Thanks a lot for posting the poem for me!

You must think I am terrible that I did not reply to this thread before, but honestly I have just seen it. Don't worry, I've already slapped my own wrists.. lol.

Great peom by the way... what a tradegy.

Love

Caz