Sappho Translations XV
...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch
Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c)
We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d)
Destiny is...
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Categories:
cyprian, destiny, evil, heart, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations XIV
...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 i...
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Categories:
cyprian, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations VII
...Sappho Translations VI by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 52
translation by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday,
you came to my house
to sing for me.
Today,
I come to you
to return the favor...
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Categories:
cyprian, desire, heaven, house, love,
Form: Free verse
Ekwensi Cyprian
...I call you ekwensu
Because you are the witch doctor
Who conjures with paper and pen the oracles of the muse.
You are the pharmacist
Who knows best the treatment of heart ailments
And presc...
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Categories:
cyprian, art, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Free verse
The Enemy On My Bed
...And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.Judges 14:18b
They plowed with the heifer,
A stranger of a day,
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Categories:
cyprian, allegory, allusion, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
Ashes and Diamonds: Translation
...Pell-mell from you as from a blazing torch
Molten shards,
Aflame you know not if the fire heralds freedom.
Or will consume all you cherish
Will only ashes be left,
Hurled into the abyss from t...
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Categories:
cyprian, death, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Epitaph