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
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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
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