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Jeanne Vessantra's avatar

The polyphonic structure and the dance between French, German, and English create a fascinating sense of displacement, Anna. The boundary between the formal and the informal, the past and the present, is highly effective. Thank you for sharing this experiment. I am honored that it found its way to my evening. 🖤 it made me happy.

Anna Elisabeth Vale's avatar

thank you!! i hoped so much you’d like it!! i never used a second language in a poem before i found you

ria's avatar

this piece is sooo beautiful, blending french german and english is like finding love in every language, despite any barriers. i genuinely love your work as a fellow poet and just subbed :)

Anna Elisabeth Vale's avatar

Thank you so much Ria that’s so kind of you!!! If you like the languages and also experimental work you should also consider to sub to jeanne (mentioned in the post) because I took the course from her

I’ll also check out your work tomorrow I’m always glad to read new poetry♡

Lotte Kestner's avatar

We both wrote about blackbirds on the same day x

Anna Elisabeth Vale's avatar

You read it!!! I didn’t expect it!!!

I love blackbirds they are my favorite birds

And one of them comes often to my place and I image we are friends

poetryinpieces._'s avatar

Maybe that's what love becomes in the end not a person you can keep but a language the moon learns because your heart can no longer speak it out loud

Anna Elisabeth Vale's avatar

yeeeeessss maybe.... that's so beautiful

your comment is a poetic fragment itself

thank you so much for this!!

lchristopher's avatar

Gorgeous.

Anna Elisabeth Vale's avatar

thank you so much!! ♡

lchristopher's avatar

All you!

Josh Datko's avatar

I do like the mixed languages. I should try it more!