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[Sophia1]

Hello @StuF 

I found your poem to be very profound..

The true meaning is yours and how the words reach others is what poetry is about..

Keep on writing ..

I would love to read more of your work..

Hello all fellow readers @greenpea @TAB @Meowmy 

Anyone else a budding poet?

Sophia1

Sophia1

[StuF]

@Sophia1 

Thanks for that. I will keep going, and might share some of my older stuff 🙂

[TAB]

poetry was never my thing @Sophia1  writing perhaps. My brain goes 'ugh' at poetry same as abstract art etc

[Sophia1]

Hello @StuF 

Yes share away ...

I would love to read more of your work...

Poetry is not as easy as some might think....

Hello @TAB 

I have attempted to write poetry over the years and for some reason I seem to be stuck on everything rhyming concept.

Then there is prose which is different again.

I have done some writing also Tab and looking up the definition of prose.

Some of my writing might fall under prose.

Only the experts would know.

I studied 5 years of french and latin and then 1 semester of night school of italian...

too far to drive too tired after full day's work so stopped.

I love languages including english.

These days I get them all muddled up laugh.

Can make interesting conversation ..

Can also receive odd looks from people who actually speak french and or italian fluently..

I love authentic italian food..

[TAB]

Hi @Sophia1  my first German teacher used to say I had an accent and she couldn't quite place it. 
I was so flattered. Took me decades to realise what I was coming up with was a mish mash lol. Heard 5 german speakers as a child none of them sounded close to the others

[Sophia1]

well at least you caught the attention of the german teacher @TAB 

I imagine that they have dialects even in Germany...

I can't be bothered with capital letters today..

Then of course some people are naturally lazy in there speech..

then there is slang..

So you probably did know more than the teacher....

[TAB]

When I used to listen I didn't know a word, just sounds. And they All sounded different to one another . One was from Sudentenland, one from Berlin, one Schlesien eg. @Sophia1 

[TAB]

Yes there are dialects @Sophia1  some areas even so different are classified as having their own languages. I stayed in Trier w cousins boyfriend who was a local. She had found him an Asterix book in the local 'language'

[Sophia1]

oh wow @TAB 

 I am surprised that Asterix was allowed there.

So Trier is close to the border.

Where did you live then if you are able to say?

[TAB]

do you mean where did I stay when I was there ? I was actually there for that long @Sophia1 I stayed in a house share place in Berlin , it was in Kreuzburg, ok names changed now, its the  eastern one, near the river, ok right next to Oberbaumbrucke 

when I was there , was former East on the other side. Can see from yellow carriages its U bahn not S bahn ok strassebahn or schellbahn in East. was a big train station on east bank of river where all old lines intersected, had to get off one to get on the other

um then I stayed in Hannover , Trier after dropping in to Dusseldorf on the way there and back, then Jerxheim near Wolfenbuttel before getting a lift back to Berlin.I loved the trains there.