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A Love Poem

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Follow these words and repeat after me
Ai, ai-mer, a-mor, a-ma-re, a-mar
Die lief, lief-de, lie-ben, li-be
Hubb, hlub, hak, son, hki-ith-ki-in-mait-tar

Ren-men, a-ha-va, sa-lang, im-hab-ba
U vol-je-ti, vo-le-ti, ka-chan-nie
Si-rel, sev-gi, me-leth, mī-les-tī-ba
O stor-ge, fi-lia, e-ros, a-ga-pé

Eshq, ashk, dust, da-shu-ri, mai-te
Mo-hab-bat, ma-xab-bat, bhā-la-bā-sā
Mei-le, miq-vars, ar-mas-tus, dra-gos-te
Rak-kaus, al-skar, el-sker, el-ska, lá-ska

Pa-sa-da-hai, pyā-ra, prē-ma, prī-ti
A-ro-ha, bre-á, ca-ru, o-bi-cham
Khair-ta, ku-kon-da, tla-zo-tla-lis-tli
Lju-be-zen, lyu-bov, sze-ret-ni, sa-kam

Cin-ta, su-ka, sne-ham, fi-tia-va-na
Ko-hach, yêu, pag-i-big, pa-ghi-gug-ma
A-lo-ha, a-lo-fa, hu-ku, tres-na
Khuam-rak, sra-leanh, an-pu, ā-da-ra-ya

N'a-nia, je-cla-hay, if-e, u-pen-do
Than-da, u-ku-than-da, ra-ta, bo-goh
If you have trouble reading the above
Know that each of the words means love, love, love
Ten syllable quatrains

Alternate Title: Google Translate Love

I'd like to give a big thanks to  Google Translate for sharing with me most of these words.

Advisory:  This might not be how they are spelled.  I made an attempt to write them how they might be pronounced in English.

Fun fact: there is at least one language for each letter of the English language in this poem.

The languages in order are:
Chinese/Japanese ( 爱 - 愛 ), French, Spanish/Catalan, Italian/Latin, Galician/Portuguese
Afrikaans, Dutch, German, Yiddish ( ליבע )
Arabic ( حب ), Hmong, Lao ​( ຮັກ ), Hausa, Burmese

Haitian Creole, Hebrew ( אוהב ), korean ( 사랑 ), Maltese 
Bosnian/Croatian, Serbian (волети), Belarussian (каханне)
Armenian ( սիրել ), Azerbaijani/Uzbeck, Elvish, Latvian
Greek: φιλία - ἔρως - στοργή - ἀγάπη

Persian ( عشق ), Turkish, Tajik ( дӯст or دوست ), Albanian, Basque
Urdu ( محبت ), Kazakh (махаббат), Bengali ( ভালবাসা )
Lithuanian, Georgia ( მიყვარს ), Estonian, Romanian
Finnish, Swedish, Danish/Norwegian, Icelandic,  Czech/Slovak

Punjabi ( ਪਸੰਦ ਹੈ ), Hindi ( प्यार ), Gujarati/Marathi/Nepali/Telugu ( પ્રેમ - prema - प्रेम - ప్రేమ ), Kannada ( ಪ್ರೀತ )
Maori, Irish, Welsh, Bulgarian ( обичам )
Mongolian ( хайртай ), Quechua, Nahuatl
Slovenian, Russian/Ukrainian, ( любовь - любов ), Hungarian, Macedonian  ( сакам )

Polish, Vietnamese, Filipino/Tagalog, Cebuano
Indonesian, Malay, Malayalam ( സ്നേഹം ), Malagasy
Hawaiian, Samoan, Klingon, Javanese
Thai ( ความรัก ), Khmer( ​ស្រឡាញ់ ), Tamil ( அன்பு ), Sinhala ( ආදරය )

Igbo, Somali, Yoruba, Swahili
Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Sudanese
English/Esperanto
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FridgePoetProject's avatar
So, so, so brilliant.  Bravo.  :heart: