My poems
A collection of my poems.
Esperanto Ambiguities
Mi iris en la sukeran kukurbon
Kaj trovis la okulon de elfaro
Li estis la postulo de nevinoj
Ĉar ili kauzis la egan paperaron
Mi tie trinkis la nevinon de kukurbo
Miaj okuloj postulis plu elfarojn
Ĝi estis sukerplena kiel fruktoj
Mi skribis tion en etan paperaron
Inspired by this list of ambiguous compounds in Esperanto. (Just for fun, here's an even longer one.)
Translation
I went into the sugary cakecity
and found the eighth member of the elf group
he was the successor of nieces
because they caused the great papal mistake
I drank the pumpkin nonwine there
my eyes demanded more achievements
it was as full of juicedrops as fruit
I wrote this on a small collection of papers
The strife against Two
Twoledge is not one of my fears,
Although its dangers are not known to me.
I understand the terror among peers,
I shall protect you from all wrath I see.
While all this horror grows like yeast,
I won’t give up the shelters you have built.
I’ll slay the monstrous dual beast,
And cover you with my defensive quilt.
Before TPOT got released, somebody on Reddit made a meme of "Twollge" ("Two" + "trollge") coming closer every day, about to cause something horrible.
(I don't actually remember the exact details.) This inspired me to write the poem above, where I admittedly misunderstood its villain's name.
Along with the poem, I created the character on the left. They are a fusion of Gelatin, Lollipop, Teardrop, Flower and Leafy, the final five contestants of BFB.
I also asked other Reddit users to list 3 of their favorite characters, and made similarly styled fusions of them. Some of my favorites will soon be included in my gallery.
Amazing Syllable Mnemonic
In the second volume of Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, there is a game called Fair Shares and Varied Pairs. It plays by the following rules:
- Take up to 10 almonds, and arrange them into some heaps.
- On each "move", a player must either split a heap into two or more equally-sized heaps, or unite two differently-sized heaps.
- Players take turns making 1 move each.
- The winner is whoever forces the opponent to be unable to continue the game - i.e. splits all the almonds into 1-almond heaps.
The poem lists the 9 winning positions (for the person who plays them) in the 9-almond version of the game, where each word is a heap and every syllable represents an almond: 333 (in the title), 4122, 121212, 121113, 1331, 5121, 54, 72, 111111111. Not counting the title, they are listed in decreasing remoteness - i.e. minimal distance to the final winning position (the one with only 1-almond heaps). The first line has remoteness 14, each next line has 2 less than the previous, and the title has remoteness 10.