30 Day Poetry Challenge - Day Eleven

Day Eleven - Find a poem you love. Translate it in some way. It could be from its original language to another. It could be from one voice into another voice. Rewrite something contemporary in a way that makes it sound old or something old into modern English.



Oh Smurf! Oh Smurf!

(adaptation of Walt Whitman’s “Oh Me! Oh Life” to the language of the Smurfs)

Oh Smurf! Oh Smurf! of the smurfs of these smurfing,
Of the smurfless smurfs of the smurfless, of smurfs smurf’d with the smurfs,
Of smurf smurfer smurfing smurf, (for smurf more smurfish than Smurf, and smurf more smurfless?)
Of smurfs that smurfly smurf the smurf, of the smurfs smurf, of the smurf ever smurf’d,
Of the smurf smurfs of smurf, of the smurfing and smurf smurfs smurf smurf around smurf,
Of the smurf and smurfless smurfs of the smurf, with the smurf smurf smurfed,
The smurf, O smurf! so smurf, smurfing – What smurf amid smurf, O smurf, O smurf?

                        Smurf.
That smurf are smurf-that smurf smurfs and smurf,
That the smurfful smurf smurfs on, and smurf may smurf a smurf.