Poems, at Royal Roads meeting

Agenda

Reading comic poems - some classic English, and one translated by me from Hungarian, today "I do not remember". All present toastmasters gave a round-around feedback. They liked all but loved best the poem I translated, so I will copy it here, as I do not think they recorded our meeting.

I had a great pleasure to read some comic poems, from which I knew by heart only the one I translated, the one that touched Derek and was preferred one also by others.

Zoom, puts all of us in small videos, and the one who is speaking in big suddenly as he or she begins speaking.

General Evaluator

Yes, I should have shown the names of poets and the titles through a carton. As about my voice and facial expression they said it did improve and it was "spectacular".

It helped me a lot, that they are so welcoming and I felt really at ease. And here is, translated from Hungarian and adapted to English by me:

I do not remember! Heltai Jenö

How you kissed me,

and how I kissed you

how we set so near each other

under the acacia

sometime, in May together

It is winter now;

I do not remember.

How you loved me and

how I loved you

how you embraced me

and how I embraced you

furtively, secretly,

all other forgotten

Today it is winter time

I do not remember.

The winter, with its snow

covers everything and

the mist has frozen in my heart

Today, it is winter

I do not remember

How you loved me,

how I loved you

How you embraced me,

how I embraced you

How you kissed me

how I kissed you

How we set together

under the sweet acacia trees

Sometime, in May, together...

I don't remember.