Virgil Translation: Descent into the Underworld
...Aeneid Book 6: The Descent into the Underworld
by Virgil
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The Sibyl began to speak to Aeneas:
“God-blooded Trojan, son of Anchises,
descen...
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Categories:
anchises, death, god, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Aphrodite
...A goddess of beauty
Absolutely gorgeous
A goddess of love with
A very wild love life
An expert seductress
Ares, Anchises and
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Categories:
anchises, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
Love Is Her Belief and Her Commandment
...Love is her Belief and her Commandment
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Love is her belief and her commandment;
in restless dreams at night, she dreams of Love;
and Love is her desire and her pu...
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Categories:
anchises, angel, faith, god, heaven,
Form: Verse
Clandestine
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"Clandestine"
Lips wrote words
across satin
then tipping the velvet pink
covered an open wound
whispered wicked
games
pleasure and pain
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Categories:
anchises, desire, kiss, lust, passion,
Form: Romanticism
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 9
...At last the fleet sailed into the Trojan delta
shallow waters still filled with wreckage from the siege
Silt from Scamander and Simoeis
building numerous new islands
all anchored on the old r...
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Categories:
anchises, hero, history,
Form: Epic