Day 24: Dictionary poem & Elephant birthday

Today celebrates my elephant-loving friend and this means that we will have a look at all the elephants gathered in one year.

But first the daily poem that has nothing to do with her.

Challenge 24: “Write a poem that … is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be your inspirational playground for the day.”

Locating a reference book was not easy. It seems we don’t have them. Not even dictionaries, even though I’m a translator. I left them all in Slovenia. Without the internet I’m dead.

Dictionary of New Slovenian Words

In Slovenian language. Pages 206-207. 
 Inscription: “Mother tongue is full cool. ---Mother. Father. Sister.” 
 Gifted on the occasion of my moving to Italy in 2013.
Words in capitals represent almost all the entries on these two pages.
See how many are borrowed or derived from English. 

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When you LOGIN,
 make sure in your LOGISTICS
 that the LOGO  
 is equipped with LOJTRA /#hashtag/
 which complements your LOOK
 so that you don’t come off
 as a complete LOSER
 who merely LOUNGES all day,
 waiting for a LOVE STORY
 spurred on by LSD
 with LUNATIC results
 such as LUSTRATION  
 by way of LYCRA  
 or even LYME DISEASE.    

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And now to the birthday girl. Whenever I see an elephant, I have to save it in some way, if not buy it for you. Here are all the elephants (and relatives) that I spotted in the past year, with some photos of your old neighbourhood where I visited you often, and some of happy you in your elephant shirt.

Unlike most of the languages in this world, it seems, Slovenians have a completely different word for elephant. Let’s count the slons now.

We found a fun shop in Grosseto with visiting parents, right next to Via Slovenia. Slon #1!

Slon #2, in the same shop.

Tarquinia is a slon paradise. Slon #3!

And what a lovely huge pink one it is!

Right there, slon #4.

Close-up. As if I asked them kindly to install one there for you.

The neighbour borrowed the idea. Slon #5!

Not finished: slons #6, #7 and #8!

Can it be… #9 and #10 in Velenje, Slovenia?

Nope, mastodons, says amore.

An entire circle of elephants. This gift was for my sister though. (I know! Terrible! :D)

Not an elephant, but our friend. With a Taurus which is what we are as well. 😉

And who is this lady in our garden?

Your old neighbourhood’s own train station. Technically we are connected.

My sister and our friend took me on a walk.

I always imagine one dog on each balcony, a scene from the film Happiness on the leash, filmed here.

Your primary school, named after Danila Kumar, a partisan killed by the Nazis.

I wish we remain “Together.”

At the last tournament in our garden…

…you won something in the elephant bag!

With the third in our Trio addio. And Piran in the background.

Here we are. Cin cin!

You made me so happy when you came with me to the last “serious” tournament.

And you were not alone. Never more alone. ❤

Dear Taja, I wish you a wonderful year full of love and health and joy and more together times. ❤ Happy birthday!

And here are posts from previous years on this day (one year is missing as I was busy with visitors) because elephants never forget:

• 2014: One song, one sea, one elephant
• 2015: More more (featuring Elvis!)
• 2017: Cin cin, Taja and sloni! (with some from Thailand and links to many more elephants)
• 2018: Happy birthday, Taja

For Day 24 of NaPoWriMo