Sunday, October 19, 2008

Piet Hein III, Son of the Sequel

Damien points to this excellent collection of Piet Hein "grooks" in English.

Includes his translation of the one I posted a few days ago:

Taking fun
as simply fun
and earnestness
in earnest
shows how thoroughly
thou none
of the two
discernest

Oh, more good ones:

DREAM INTERPRETATION
Simplified.

Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex


CIRCUMSCRIPTURE

As Pastor X steps out of bed
he slips a neat disguise on:
that halo round his priestly head
is really his horizon

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

PROBLEMS

Problems worthy
of attack
prove their worth
by hitting back.

Ah yes, the man who invented the Soma Cube:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube