Sadness is one way to describe it
Anything like a nostalgic feeling
Unique sensation no other language can explain
Desire of someone, something you miss
Awful, annoying sentiment of need
Distant relationships get broken, forgotten
Emotional emptiness
Simply untranslatable. As a Portuguese, I know it too well.
This poem is an acrostic called A unique word. The word I used to create it is Portuguese, my mother tongue, and has no translation in any other language and so I wanted to praise that. My goal was to explain to my non-Portuguese friends what and how much this word means. I was also inspired by all the Portuguese poems I read throughout my life praising my language and my country.
This piece of work was submitted on October 23rd 2020 by Lara Soares for the module 'Poetry for Digital Times' as part of my degree English and Creative Writing BA.
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