Sappho Translations VI
...Sappho Translations by VI Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 121
translation by Michael R. Burch
1.
As a friend you're great,
but you need a much younger bedmate.
2.
Although you're very ...
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Categories:
bedmate, best friend, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Dream
...I awoke to screaming
while my bedmate slept,
telepathic scheming
from the dark world
where evil crept.
My body curled
my mind darted
and skin leapt.
Reality faded; illusion started.
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Categories:
bedmate, dark, dream, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Harmless Walkway
...Walk for peace as quiet as a stranger
Tread softly without digress on this road
It does look so lovely to endanger
So, neither jump nor leap like a smart toad
Switch left or right if that is ...
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Categories:
bedmate, anxiety, art, emotions, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Desire
...Red lips, curvaceous hips
a sway in her walk tips
the scales and leaves me
wondering how I ended up
here.
A chance meeting, a persuasive
greeting, entices me to
give in, to live in the mome...
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Categories:
bedmate, abuse, addiction, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
Piece De Resistance Lauded
...Pièce De Résistance Lauded...
Ninety years April 9th 1929
after maiden USA début
hoop fully more than a few
remain, a filial connection
I can cultivate and hew
cuz, the ghost o' me late
mo...
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Categories:
bedmate, age, birthday, father son,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Das Decrements Describe Digs
...Das Decrements Describe Digs ©
Grasping figurative literary straws
poetic theme yielded
farfetched aggregate
i.e., where each dwelling
listed as figurative Stormy bedmate,
this...
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Categories:
bedmate, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Father the Craftsman Part Ii
...Suddenly without bedmate and counterpart
one month shy of fifty years, no deity could answer
razor sharp emotional pain cut to the quick
recollecting ballroom dancer
himself as a handso...
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Categories:
bedmate, adventure, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Ballade
Cold Feet
...March nights, cold and bitter,
Awaiting spring
Just teasingly out of sight.
Cold feet pressed up against
The warm calves
Of a muttering bedmat...
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Categories:
bedmate, life
Form: Free verse
Vengence By Plastic
...If someone wrongs you...
Is cruel and clueless...
And you want to get even...
Wait till they're shoeless...
And hand them a pair
Of shiny plastic shoes,
You can't buy one,
They only come in tw...
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Categories:
bedmate, funny, life, war,
Form: Burlesque
The Man Behind the Scene
...You’re so cynical, your mind is kind of hazy,
you’re out of touch and you can’t see reality.
Wrestling with your demons it’s plain that you can’t win,
you scheme and you plot over and over again.
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Categories:
bedmate, angst, people, social, hate,
Form: Verse