Aphrodite Poems

My Aphrodite

y life was always so normal
A path predetermined by breeding
All it took was meeting you
Then my path began slowly fading
Twisting and turning right before me
So many pathways all around
Leading to places I never expected
The strange thing was that you were not with me
You had disappeared into the maze
Leaving not a single trace to follow
Still, somehow

Windflower

I planted windflower in my garden plot
Along with yarrow and forget me not
Then a man walked over grass toward me
Said "I’m Adonis, let me make a plea:"

“Windflower you see, is named after me
Anemone is the tears of Aphrodite
She thought I loved her, she was quite a bore
Her tears became flowers, don’t plant it no more."

"If

Where is Aphrodite?

in her aging mind
she will remain as nubile
as her lovers are

All Is Fair

All is fair in love and war, 

For love and war are lovers. 

War and Love, those deities so fair, 

Aphrodite and Ares belong to one another. 

 

All is fair in love and war, 

For every soldier holds someone 

Closer than anyone ever before, 

and every lover has to fight 

for the person they

Sand Promises -POTW

Flip flops and straw hat adorn him, beach wear suits him nicely
Kind is he to her as he scoops into a bucket measuring precisely

Casted are his piteous passions in sunstruck warm sands
Gently shaping and capturing her likeness, she is in skilled hands

Stooping over chin to knee he bares bronze shoulders glimmering  
Her features delicate,

Love Born

Born of Aphrodite,  

in every life graceful. 

 

Born of Aphrodite, 

in every life loving. 

 

Bound to children of war, 

Sons and Daughters of Ares. 

 

In every life devoted, 

To loving and nurturing 

 

In every life hers, 

Those children of love. 

 

Born of the love, 

the faith, 

and the long

Undoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back

Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds.
Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s
tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while
bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on the dial
hones into a night rainbow's radio, she runs on solar,
hopes for the rhythm to wrench free from her toller—
copes with the captivity

NOSSIS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

NOSSIS

There is nothing sweeter than love.
All other delights are secondary.
Thus, I spit out even honey.
This is what Gnossis says:
Whomever Aphrodite does not love,
Is bereft of her roses.
—Nossis translation by Michael R. Burch

Most reverend Hera, the oft-descending from heaven,
attend your Lacinian shrine fragrant with incense
and there receive the linen mantle your noble child Nossis,
daughter of Theophilis

Sappho Translations XIII

Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch

In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used in any way, shape or form.

Andromeda may have abandoned you, but I, Aphrodite, Queen of Cyprus, still love you, Sappho, as the sun illuminates

Sappho Translations XII

Sappho Translations XII by Michael R. Burch

In the following short translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used in any way, shape or form.

I now, with all my heart, fully, as much as it is possible for me, blossom to

Sappho Translations X

Sappho Translations X by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 103c
translation by Michael R. Burch

… remembering delightful Arheanassa,
her laughter lovely as any Lorelei's …


Sappho, fragment 76
translation by Michael R. Burch

Fulfill?
At my age I'm just hanging on!


Sappho, fragment 50
translation by Michael R. Burch

A handsome man pleases the eyes
but a good man pleases.


Sappho, fragment 88
translation by Michael R. Burch

Though

Sappho Translations IX

Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazzling kings who did such amazing things,
first at Troy, then later at sea.
And yet, sailing the sea-road to our island,
those mighty kings still could not attain it
until they had called

Sappho Translations VIII

Sappho Translations VIII by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 68
translation by Michael R. Burch

That was then, this is now!
In those days my maidenhead was in full bloom,
then you …


Sappho, fragment 135
translation by Michael R. Burch

Golden Persuasion, Aphrodite's daughter,
how you deceive mortals!


Sappho, fragment 88
translation by Michael R. Burch

Why, Procne,
delicate swallow, daughter of Pandion,
why do you weary me

Aphrodite Greek Goddess RESURRECTED

Poetic Form: Heptastich

I am
Aphrodite...
yielded from sea lather
and reached the shores of Cyprus on
a scallop's shell, symbol
of womanhood
and birth

I am
Aphrodite...
Homer sourced me as a
girl by Zeus and sea nymph, Dione,
and aphrodisiac
had influenced
my name

I am
Aphrodite...
a cause and effect for
incessant eyes aroused crusade
facing our guarded Mount
Olympus high
above

I am
Aphrodite...
unceasing prayers heard
by mere boldness and a taste test
from each sweeten

Ambrosial Aphrodite

O beloved chevalier, 
cloaked in shimmering champagne armor,
tonight I long to feel your sultry skin,
embroidered with emerald embellishments 
and twinkling teal topaz, 
tailored to tempt,
veiling these tanned desires.

My soul sways to a chained string 
of softened serenades,
where the definitions 
of this drawn devotion
dance amidst dusted darkness.

I still remember how you willfully 
whispered wildflower wishes
to my

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