NaPoWriMo Day 12

Isn't it great that so many people have joined up to this self discipline?  I'd just be lazing around the house, watching daytime tele and wondering whether to have KFC or pizza for dinner - I wish.  However, I look forward to opening up the NaPoWriMo site and seeing what the next prompt is, although I have to confess that I am ignoring the one for today, but I have treid to keep the basic theme.


Day 12 - Prompt: take a poem (in a foreign language and attempt phonic translation, or something similar)

Learning a Language

I’m not good with foreign languages

I think it’s those guttural sounds

So, for me, today’s poetry prompt

Is well and truly out of bounds

It’s not that I don’t like foreigners

And I love different foods, and sun

But when it comes to speaking the lingo

Well, I just don’t know how it’s done

At school we had lessons in German

But I’ve only ever been to France

So my counting and short conversation

Was never really given a chance

I’ve tried the CDs and earphones

I quite fancied Afrikanns

But that’s really guttural and Dutch like

So I ‘d have to depend on my charms

I’m British so I just look helpless

Shrug my shoulders a couple of times

Shout ‘cos I think that’s helpful

And if that fails, well I’d mime