I'm fairly good at translating French poems into English. I have wrote a few poems in French.

One must be careful though, the translations are bias as to the translator's knowledge of the language and the translator's poetic skills.

The best translation of any work I have read is Seamus Heaney's version of Beowulf.

Dorf, I agree with your statement "One must be careful though, the translations are bias as to the translator's knowledge of the language and the translator's poetic skills." I'll add an other caviat, hire a programmer that can understand the poetry and it's fine nuances.
Thanks for the Beowulf reference in your post. I enjoyed reading it.

True story coming up.

I used to sing with our local symphony. One night at a rehersal, ( we were singing in German,) a member started laughing. He had translated the German into English, and it was really terrible. With Poetry, the meter is so important. words don't always have to rhyme, but there has to be a certain "beat" to it or it's just nice words strung together. It is very difficult to get the meaning and the flow of words in a different language.

Just wanted to say the same. Some poetry can be translated, but poems relaying on rhyming - forget about it. I did translate professionaly for a time, but mostly legal matter and some technical manuals.

Lol, I'd luv to the see the job description for the programmers for this project.