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Sultry African nights,
we’d drink Dutch,
play Chinese,
smoke American,
talk Japanese,
(the odd bit of French thrown in)
Brightly hungover days,
we’d work,
with throwback English stoicism
Meld
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Wonderful cultural melange. Well done.
Thanks, elmediat – hope the holiday season is treating you well.
Love the images of your cultural melting pot. 😀
What kind of Japanese did you speak?
haha – the one-too-many-glasses-of-Dutch kind of Japanese, Nancy 😉
Ah…you provided quite an array of cultures in this one. 🙂
No such thing as a pure bloodline where I come from, Charles 😉
Greatly picturesque, BB. Love it!! Thank you
John
Thanks, John 🙂 Hope you are enjoying the Festive Season.
Love the word play here, and the map of languages it creates
Nice to see you, Ashley – thanks
Great Writing 🙂
Thanks, Jake 🙂
How exotic! Wonderful poem, BB, transported me somewhere completely different for a moment there.
Have a good holiday 🙂
That is good, Kate – thanks. Am looking forward to popping over just now with a cup of tea to enjoy your ghost stories 🙂
Happy Christmas to you 🙂
And to you, Jake – thanks 😀
Mah Jongg!! I love it and play every week. Great game huh?
A woman after my own heart! It is a fantastic game, Nursemyra. We were addicted and used to play it every Sunday evening with a group of friends in South Africa (and go to work not-too-bright Monday mornings :)) and for a time after we came to live here in Aus, but haven’t played it for nearly a decade now and I don’t even remember how to play…(our set is gathering dust under the stairs :))
the melting pot in daily life – love it!
Thanks, Monica – life and our ancestry, both melting pots 🙂
What a lovely interntional flavour, Bb. I love it!
Thx, Adee – glad you enjoyed 🙂
I can relate to this so well. We often resort to Glaswegian slang when we are all together. My husband can also speak a bit of Maori and throws that in for good measure. If anyone outside the family heard us talking they would think we were aliens, but somehow we seem to understand one another. An excellent poem!
Thanks, Selma – Maori and Glaswegian – what an awesome mix of double-Dutch that must make! Haha, fantastic 😀 thx for your Christmas wishes. Hope you are well recovered from your fall. xxx
An exotic brew – wonderful poem bluebee. Hope you had a good Chrissy and wishing you the best for 2012 🙂
Thx, Gabe 😀 Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble is this brew according to my husband, haha. (he of the manic, diabolical laughter in the aftermath of another wicket – hohum) Thx for your wishes – I hope many good things come your way this coming year. xxxx
Wonderful sense of how the world comes together even in the face of English stoicism. Good poem.
Thanks, Thomas – the ancestral mix of humans is a fascinating thing
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