Catullus Poems - Poems about Catullus

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3 Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?......Read the rest...

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2 Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial' translation by Michael R. Burch 1. Through many lands and over many seas I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites, to t......Read the rest...

...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I hate. I love. You ask, 'Why not refrain?' I wish I could explain. I can't, ......Read the rest...

...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams POEMS Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus” by Michael R. Burch Every corona has a silver lining: I......Read the rest...

...Ancient Roman poets weren’t prudes, the foulest vocabulary they used. They spoke the language of the street unaltered by artifice, much less discreet. The prudish and the ignorant were shocked a......Read the rest...

..."Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky." - Catullus One god of wind blows from the west. Zephyros was that Greek god’s name. Of......Read the rest...

...I want to be known by one name Like Dessalines, Christophe and Pétion Like Pelé, Ali or a Great Champion Like Edison, Jefferson and Washington. I want to be known by just a name By my pretty a......Read the rest...

...A TEN MILE DRIVE - I walked a country road once In New England, in October. In a gorgeous colored paradise You’d think you were not sober. - A car approached, my thumb went out He stopped. I ......Read the rest...

...I’m not some filthy **** who calls your poems a joke; I like them. But here’s advice, take it or ignore it: You lard a poem with myths that weigh it down; half the young no longer know ......Read the rest...

...That night you came and dined with us there was a wind, then soft rain. My hair was dressed by Aemilia who does it to perfection, and I wore no jewelry except the brooch my ......Read the rest...

...G-ood health of the humankind A-voids the lethal link; I-solating the ferocious flu, U-ntil the dirt and grime S-ink. V-irus spares the man of good health, A-ttacking the vulnerablebody; ......Read the rest...

...I‘m embittered by isolation like Ado turned to salt but outside, the flowers are dueling for attention. I am mortared in this seclusion as Catullus rendered stone yet outdoors, trees bask and frol......Read the rest...

...Listen to the music of centuries Remembering looking toward peace "We must disentral ourselves" The congressmen Big black tires Big black men,black suits Siphoning your GRIT The corporate war ......Read the rest...

...just a kiss from CHRIST-- Who’ll see your beauty? Who now will you love? Whose will they say you’ll be? Who will you kiss? Will you be missed? But you, Catullus, be resolved to be firm Man......Read the rest...

.... Please this poet doth press ‘pon the you compare me not with Catullus ......Read the rest...