Best Menander Poems

Searching for the Meaning of Life
A poem about the vanity of material things  
inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom
 
As I leave the walls of my home
Escaping the confines of my abode
I search for life’s meaning outside
On the banks of the Aegean sea-side

And as I...

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Miles of waving grass
filled with wild flowers.
Sweat armoa sails
across the winds
as you Menander through the grass .
Bees float across the waves 
of flowers.
High above hawks 
search through the meadows.
On distant hills
wild animal's 
graze on the plains.
All in joyous
harmony in the plains...

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Sappho Translations II

That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 138, loose translations/interpretations by Michael R. Burch

1.
Darling, let me see your face;
unleash your eyes' grace.

2.
Turn to...

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