Haikus by he

A busy poet expressing my interpretations of the world around me through haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry.

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Eight days in to fasting

You are not the same that you were eight days ago. That is Ramadan!

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Flowers sprout in all shapes and sizes, colors and hues. How beautiful!

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Growing up - To speak or not

Maturity is knowing when to say something and when to hold back.

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Why are you in my life?

People want to get to the end of the story before it begins.

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She still is ...

Though the days may change, my opinions of you have not. You are awesome.

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When you do not get it right

Be kind to your mind You don't have to get every- thing right the first time.

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All of me

Because you can't have all of me, doesn't mean that you don't have the best.

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My all

If I give my all to God, then I can only give you some of me.

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Flight No. xyz

Flying in a plane is refreshing. It give me a sense of freedom.

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Internet French

As promised, some keyboard slang (we stole a lot from you)(sue us). I wrote what is accurate at the moment, a few years ago it was quite popular to write lik this m8 but it became pretty unhip (I could tell you that you can type “aussi” (: too, as well) “O6″ but literally no one has done that since 2008) most people write normally and add some of the following words :

Basics:

jpp (je n’en peux plus) : I can’t stand it anymore i.e. I’m dying from the lols/I’m so tired of this fucking shit

osef (on s’en fout) : no one cares

mdr (mort-e de rire) / ptdr (pété-e de rire) : lol

cmb / ctb (comme ma bite/comme ta bite) “like my dick/like your dick” : easy punchline to almost anything, ex : ‘the line was so long!’ ‘cmb’ ‘you have a short memory’ (tu as la mémoire courte) ‘ctb’

cmt (comment) : how / cmb (combien) : how much/many

slt (salut) / bjr (bonjour) / bsr (bonsoir) : hello

bn (bonne nuit) : good night

bcp (beaucoup) : a lot, much, many / tp (trop) : too, too much

mtnt (maintenant) : now / ajd (aujourd’hui) : today / jms (jamais) : never

srtt (surtout) : especially, above all / vrmt (vraiment) : really

jsp (je ne sais pas) : I don’t know / ms (mais) but

pr (pour) : for / pcq / pq (parce que) : because

pq / pk (pourquoi) : why

ss (sans) : without OR (sous) : under / sr (sur) : over, on

tt (tout) : all, everything OR (tant) : so much, as long

mn (mon) : my (m) / tn (ton) : your (m) / sn (son) : his/her

ns (nous) : we OR (nos) : ours / vs (vous) : you (pl) OR (vos) yours (pl) / lr (leur(s)) : their / theirs

fr (faire) : to do, make

tmtc (toi-même tu sais) : you know what I’m talking about, private joke

tkt / tqt (ne t’inquiète pas) : don’t worry

c (c’est) : it is OR (sais/sait) : know (½/3p sg) / ct (c’était) : it was

d (des) : some, ex : mange des chips / t (tes) : your (pl for one person)

h (heure) : time/hour, ex : on se voit à ql h? (at what time do we meet?)

keske (qu’est-ce que) : what is, ex : qu’est-ce c’est?

kesta (qu’est-ce que tu as) : what’s up/wrong with you?

ke / q (que) : that/what, ex : ke ve tu? (what do you want?)

ql / kel (quel(s)/quelle(s)) : what/which

askip (à ce qu’il paraît) : from what I’ve heard, apparently…

oklm (au calme) : relaxed, calm, ex : petite soirée oklm 

Borrowing to english or kids:

go : to leave (j’y go)

dodo (beddy byes) : to sleep, sleeping (je vais dodo)

miam (aka “yum”) : to eat (je vais miam)

lol, the legendary

chiller : to go somewhere and not do shit

Dropping the vowels: 

It’s hard to explain but since so many words in french contain “ou”, “an”, “ai” or “on” (…), when we need or want to make verbs (or possessive pronouns as we have already seen) smaller, we drop those letters and the other person guesses what’s missing regarding the context.

A few examples (but you can play with lots of other verbs) :

vx / vt (veux/veut) : to want, ½/3psg, ex : tu vx d pom? je ss o magasin (do you want apples? I’m at the store) ; (voit) : to see, meet, 3psg

ss / st (sais/sait) : to know, ½/3psg ; (suis/suit) : to follow, ½/3psg ; (suis/sont) : to be 1psg+3ppl, ex : où st t chats? (where are your cats?)

cns (connais) : to know someone, 1p sg

pvs (pouvons) : to can, be able/allowed to, 1p pl

N.B.: I have used 1/2/3psg or pl several times in that post, if you have doubts it means that those forms are the conjugated forms - Reminder : je / tu / il-elle-on (singulier) ; nous / vous / ils-elles (pluriel).

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just what I needed! For other french learners :)

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Kindness

Be kind to others.

Be kind to yourself. And yes,

be kind at home too.

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Death - No vaccine for that

The angel of death visited my family this week. Three souls taken.

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Buzz or sting?

If love were a bee would it buzz its way into your heart or sting you?

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Wash away the sorrow

If only rain could wash away my feelings as it can do with snow.

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Rain whisks snow away

The rain came today

Washing away the white snow

that covered the ground

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To call or not call

I swallow the urge to call and say hi. Go knows it's a real fight

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All I see is white

It's snowing again Snow flakes floating from the sky Covering the ground