M is for Mesmerized. A-Z Challenge 2015

Mesmerized

here is an icelandic poem by me, translated, to fit the day of the challenge.

Litadýrð á himni

lýsir upp skýin.

Lítil andlit

láta bros um kjálkann

ljóma.

Hugfangin standa þau

glápandi á undrið

sem fyrir þeim

hefur myndast.

Tilbúin fyrir kraftaverk.

~ * ~

Colourful splendors in the sky

lights up the clouds.

Little faces

let a smile glow

brightly around their jaws.

Mesmerized they stand

staring at the wonder

that has appeared before them.

Ready for a miracle.

-Miss Bates.

L is for Limerick. A-Z Challenge 2015

Limerick 

is a rhymed humorous, nonsense poem.

Here are some fun examples:

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.-Ogden Nash

A wonderful bird is the pelican

His bill can hold more than his belican

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week

But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

-Dixon Merrit

Hickory dickory dock,
the mouse ran up the clock;
the clock struck one
and down he run;
hickory dickory dock. -Mother Goose

-Miss Bates.

K is for Kenning. A-Z Challenge 2015

Kenning 

is a figurative expression that replaces a name or a noun. Often it's a compound of two words and the words are hyphenated. Kennings are usually associated with Old Norse, Icelandic and Anglo Saxon poetry.

Example: Desert-ship = a Camel

Hot-potato, Hot-potato

what a Forseti-Failure.

Can't be a Bringer of Rings,

can't change the Northern-kiss.

Mind the mind's worth.

Oh, Hot-potato

kiss the sky-candle.

And the Rune-caller 

may grant your wish.

With uncut threads

and fresh feather's fall

the draught of giants

takes shelter from

the sky's black cloak.

Hot-Potatoe: Someone no one wants

Forseti-Failure: Unjust decisions

Bringer of Rings: Chieftain, King

Northern-kiss: Cold wind

Mind's Worth: Honor

Sky-candle: Sun

Rune-caller: Wizard

Uncut threads: Destiny to be fulfilled

Feather's fall: Falling snow

Draught of giants: Sudden realization 

Sky's black cloak: Nightfall

-Miss Bates.

J is for Juramentum. A-Z Challenge 2015

Juramentum ~ an oath

Juramentum to Summer

Farewell said the cold air.
presence lost, jumpiness.
Nourish is in the air.
From freezing fingertips
of the cold seasons past
to the warming sun on thy face.
 My juramentum is too,
whenever a sun is shining,
 there is always you
Joyously jinxed
forevermore.

-Miss Bates.

I is for Iceland. A-Z Challenge 2015

Iceland

summer Iceland vs. winter Iceland

How would you describe paradise?

I live in a country, with fewer than 350.000 people living in an area of 103,000 km².

People only live along the coastlines of the whole country, and it's more likely or not that everyone knows someone you know that knows you if you are from here that is.
And even with volcanic activity,tourism is at an all time high. More than 1 million people have visited Iceland in the past two years.
Can you blame them?
Why wouldn't you want to come to this paradise on ice/paradise of light.
Paradise for all the magic, that resides in the world.

(ice cave in iceland, taken by articphoto)

Iceland is not only rich in history, from early settlement 874 CE.
It also has very good imagination, seeing as we believe in fairies, trolls, goblins and ghouls, ghosts and other magical beings.
Some even say the entrance to the underworld is located in Iceland.

 
(don't worry, you need a spell to open the portal and that book is kept very safe!)
The nature scene in Iceland is of course very beautifully enchanting and you needn't venture far off to find something truly astonishing.

Iceland is one of those places where you end up asking yourself
if the country has a grudge on you.
You look out the window the sun is out, and then it starts to snow as you walk out the door.
You hang out your laundry to get the outside smell in your clothes, and then it starts pouring rain as you put up the last item on the hanging line.
You are going camping during a non raining season, and your tent is flooded.
Just makes you wonder if things really happen just because.

nothing happens just
nothing just happens
everything happens just

Iceland has the best swimming pools. Hot springs, Hot pools, Hot tubs. You name it.
If you feel like taking a 5 hour long hot shower...you can and it wont "finish" the water, or run cold, ever. They used to teach us how we should stop the faucet whilst you brush thy teeth.
However, I always thought, but we live in Iceland.
Water is free in Iceland, and that makes you wonder why we don't share that water. But we do.
I could talk for hours about this country of mine. But my hour is up and time to wrap this day up and I feel like you've at least seen how wonderful it is in pictures and a few fancy improvised words.

I has been for Image, Iceland, Improvising!

-Miss Bates.

H is for Homonym. A-Z Challenge 2015

Homonym

One of two or more words that have the same sound 

and often the same spelling but differ in meaning.

To hear here

Feyly Fay, faux or foe.

To forego or to forgo.

To be feted and cease to be fetid.

He aught, all for naught,

to be allowed to be aloud.

Fey: strange, unworldly

Fay: fairy

Forego: procede

Forgo: refrain from

feted: celebrated

fetid: smelly, unpleasant

-Miss Bates.

G is for Gnomes. A-Z Challenge 2015

Gnomic Poetry

~ consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. 

They were known by the Greeks as gnomes, from the Greek word for "an opinion".

"a saying pertaining to the manners and common practices of men, which declareth, with an apt brevity, what in this our life ought to be done, or not done".

what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-Miss Bates.