Wow, that's one heck of a piece of writing there, Khisa. I LOVE some of the word imagery you've constructed, "The Run of the Fours" and "Further, further over young grass, tickles the pawpads softly which carry me so silently." stand out as great examples.

You did a great job with this one, even in translation it still sounds and reads well. I love it!

*smile* thank you very much, this means a lot to me, as English is still a foreign language to me and some of the ... beauty of wordplays and neologisms I created got lost in translation.

That does encourage me to go on translating my "Dark Night"-cycle. :)

I just wish I had more readers ;)

You do good work, Khisa! I really wish I could speak German at all, much less right good poetry in it! Poetry never does really translate right, of course, since the inflections and connotations of words change between languages, but this one came out well. Like I said, I LOVE some of the imagery. :)

And hey, the more stuff you have, the more people will read it. You can always count on me at least coming to have a look. :)

Yes, you are one of my few most loyal watchers, I do know :) - and it's nice to get feedback on a more steady base ^.^
It helps to keep being motivated, in the end I do want to touch people's inner self with my words or pictures, so art or poety without being looked at or read is somehow... superfluent.

And I wish I had grown up with English as a second mother tongue, I could simply write in English and spare me of translating the stuff later on, it'd be easier as most German watchers speak English, but not vice versa.

I know what you mean, a good deal of the reason to do art of any kind is to see how other people react to it, and make a try to touch their lives and make them feel emotions. I always like reading your works or seeing your drawings, even though they might not be the best on the site here, nobody can accuse them of lacking emotion or drive. You do a very good job of conveying emotion through your art, be it words or drawing. :)

I really wish I'd grown with a second language as well, I have never had much luck with languages as a whole, although I took a rather deliberate stab a while ago at trying to learn Latin. Mathematics and things with hard-and-fast rules have always been my forte, or things that involve use of my hands. Languages, unfortunately, don't fall into that category. :)

Ugh, Latin...

I've had it for 4.5 years at school, chose it, because you need it to study veterinary science in Germany. I'm glad I didn't have to take it any longer ^^"" - though at the beginning it was quite interesting, I still prefer languages that are spoken. I'd love to learn Spanish and French, Japanese and Chinese and Russian. I'm weird, I suppose. Maybe a bit of Suaheli, too. o.o
I'm just more lucky than you are, I can learn languages easily, but I don't have the money for all the classes. :/

*luckier - I'm tired. >.<

That's actually the reason I chose it also, my original intent was to become a chemical engineer, but over time I decided that I would rather work with things I could handle after making them. If a chemical engineer tries that, his paws might fall off. XD

And if you're good with languages, run with it! It's a rare person that can really master languages and enjoys it. :D

Well, I did not say I can master them ;) - and still... no money for learning, I'm 32 and a bit too old for that, anyway *sigh*

But maybe one day...

Well, it's still a big leg up on people who can't learn languages well. :) And knowledge is one of those things that is worthwhile to gain even if there's no immediate benefit for it. Down the road, who knows what might come up, or where they may help you? :) And nobody can take knowledge away from you. They can take things you own, but not things you KNOW. Besides, you're never too old to learn. :)

Oh, yes I know, I'm all for knowlegde just for itself. But I cannot afford it. <.<

Well, perhaps some day. :)