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    Ink of Serendipity
    Ink of Serendipity
    Ink of Serendipity
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    Ink of Serendipity

    By Erik Black

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    Here are poems about "untranslatable" words, non-English words that have no direct translation. I have enjoyed gathering words from many cultures around the world to inspire my poetry. Let me know if you find new words that could become poems!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Black
    Release dateMar 7, 2024
    ISBN9798224504428
    Ink of Serendipity
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    Erik Black

    I live in Kansas City but have lived overseas, in Kenya and Morocco. These travels have influenced my writing (Hey I now have a book out on my time in Kenya called "The Trees Were Spinning"). P.S. I really am working on the next books! The Trees Were Spinning is out now, and DRWN Trilogy book 1 will be coming next year. Writing is real work! Almost done with book 1, and then the editing begins...

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      Ink of Serendipity - Erik Black

      Ink of Serendipity

      By Erik Black

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      This is a book of poems based on untranslatable words — foreign words that have no direct single word meaning in English. Most often I have used the words in the title, but sometimes they are part of the poem itself. Some of the words I cannot pronounce, but they are pleasing to read anyways. I have given the meaning to most of the words, though a few are understood well enough from the reading.

      Serendipity is an English word first coined by a Horace Walpole (poor chap shares a first name with my maternal grandfather) in a letter to another Horace dated January 28, 1754. It

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