I started learning English in May 2023. The reason was the visit of Mike Metatawabin, Rita Fenton and Louise Thomas, three of First Nation from Canada, who came to Beromünster for the exhibition Aski [Link]. to be able to talk to them, however, I finally had to learn English after fifty-five years.
So I did, and it was slow but steady progress.
To practise my English, I started by writing down thoughts about photos I took with my Leica camera. But soon I was writing quatrains.
The Facebook posts were well received and people found them entertaining. So I thought I’d post the collection here, because everything on Facebook is doomed to oblivion.
Simon Meyer 2024
15.9.2024
Adventures with my Leica:
You should lie down
and take a break
Now look up at the sky
And think of your dreams
You stole from yourself.
But never tell them by by
8.9.2024
When the life is hitting you
beating hands, hits an screw
ye’re feeling how ye going down
and the planks makes creepy sound
then my friend so lay your down
go inside ye and feel the lown
ye have eight seconds and not more
then stand up and grow to glor
31.8.2024
Yesterday we got the blues
Felt the rhythm in the shoes
Paul J Miles let fly our feet
with voice and strings and the whole beat
8.8.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
At the stony river I saw a skull
crowned with its own neck
that’s the life at the end of glory
so consider all «memento mori»!
31.7.2024
being among my little brothers
by the forests, by the waters
feeling nature, feeling the dance
among the world, the big life chance
17.7.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
just one steps
from my feet
another world
another beat
spotted by sun
the adventure begun
15.7.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
As a walkit throuch the field, the snoke o hay an poppies i ma nose, A thoucht bi myself, maybe A ‹m healit. Healit from the world thon struggles i war, fear an violence. but then A liftit ma head tae the sky an thoucht: na. idiot. humanity canae change, an it doesnae want tae change.
I the end, A can only enjoy natur
14.7.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
We saw them resting in the shade of the early morning sun.
Waiting for the children.
Tired kids sweating their little arses and backsides on the back seat of dad’s car,
and starting the first fight of the holiday trip.
Only eight hours to Rimini.
29.6.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
Whispering and the breath of silence
comes from the shadows between the leaves
there is no evil and no violence
and no one matters when we leave
28.6.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
there was a goat looking at me
but I don’t know what to say
i said hello and nodded my head
and went on with my Leica
23.6.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
We saw rain
again!
16.6.2024
I caught it!
15.6.2024
Adventures with my Leica:
we saw a man called winkelried
he stood against the spears
he was not real and isn’t now
and that is why the tears
4.5.2024
Adventure with my Leica:
but when we looked at the earth, we saw the sky
