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After the success of the first Odd Challenge on poems in the future tense, here is a second one - John Keats did it with "La Belle Dame sans Merci", as did Wilfred Owen with "Dulce et Decorum Est". Can you write a poem with a title in another language? Tag them #OddChallenge, and share the prompt.

3/8/26, 8:03 am12 reposts20 likes

Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

8 Aug

Here you go Mike from an unpublished collection where I worked with a wonderful Iranian artworker:

Mike O’Brien

@zoomburst.substack.com

8 Aug

Bandy bairn’s legs! Excellent.

Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

8 Aug

Thank you, Mike. The title is Persian for "Ghul" or as we would say "Ghoul."

Jen Thorne

@jenthorne.bsky.social

3 Aug

Great prompt. Thanks Mike ☺️

Stefanie Neumann

@kokopellibfree.bsky.social

4 Aug

#OddChallenge - a poem with a title in another language bsky.app/profile/koko...

Stefanie Neumann@kokopellibfree.bsky.social

#vss365 (fruit) #FromOneLine 424 #AmpersandAfterDark 49 #MPPrompt #OddChallenge - Fruchten (Fruition) seeking balance she kept repositioning to a world with ever narrower spaces to be waiting for change to happen "The power is Now." (Eckhart Tolle) ... 1/2

Mike O’Brien

@zoomburst.substack.com

4 Aug

Brill - The Tanka Puentes are coming in thick and fast. Fruchten is a brilliant word. Shades of Fructose, fruity and fruitfulness. And the english greeting. "Hello, old fruit"

Stefanie Neumann

@kokopellibfree.bsky.social

4 Aug

Thank you, Mike. Yes, I found your prompt through @jenthorne.bsky.social . Also, as a German, that saying is new to me. I shall remember it!

La Reine des Metaphores

@metaphorqu.bsky.social

3 Aug

This from 1984. I was but young And there were more... #juvenilia #OddChallenge

Mike O’Brien

@zoomburst.substack.com

4 Aug

Juvenalia, I love the idea of digging that out. The idea - i doubt it would be very thrilling. I am forever on the edge of trusting myself, reading my teenage angst might push me over the edge.