perjantaina, syyskuuta 30, 2005

Äkkiselleen

Iiksnä kälkkisä nyy ilä elkyn nykää nääksyn,
kene leelee yykyi, syinellän es nyyneel käällä.
Äile ylsekkein es niinnee nääke, ekkees säälne.
Ilni kelnen sem, sin nenee kiisillesen iskyn.

A spoiler to our foreign friends: This is a nonsense "minute poem" in trochaic meter, using only nine different letters. (Actually, I planned to use only four different vowels and four different consonants, but I seem to have made "a typo" in the last line: the "m" in the word "sem," obviously, don't belong). And, although this is a perfectly "readable" poem in Finnish, I have to admit, phonetically it's not a very "beautiful" one. ["Emmä rääkkääkään."] The "the" lieth elsewhere.