CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgi...
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Categories:
disgorges, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
The Image of Deja Vu
...The image of the letters of Déjà Vu
Tells it true.
The eyebrows of the 'e' and 'a'
cast a frown, with the 'j' the snotty nose in between.
Its the face ...
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Categories:
disgorges, destiny, memory,
Form: Free verse
Friday Night Check-Ins
...Friday Night Check-ins
The days have been calm and collected.
The guests have been happy, content.
The weekday staff scurry out from the hotel
To avoid the upcoming eve...
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Categories:
disgorges, age, england, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Lux Nova
...^b^
Lux Nova
(after Notre Dame)
The light at Suger's
St. Denis
precursor for mighty Notre Dame
Paints both floors in color.
Transliterated from the glass of guilds
Tracery and mul...
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Categories:
disgorges, beautiful, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change
... Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
………………………………………..…at the heart of the chef lieu township
ten-ton buses throb empty
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Categories:
disgorges, august, christian, discrimination, hate,
Form: Free verse
Cut Off Cakes of Mistakes
...Always on my mind
Nibbling at the core, fiddling at the soft centre
Quizzing, teasing me to find
Space and time to enter
The pantheon populated by caring
Daring divinities whose flight
Int...
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Categories:
disgorges, poems,
Form: Free verse
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn
...Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn
…at the heart of the township
ten-ton buses throb empty
their drivers slumped in the heat
behind their steering wheels liste...
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Categories:
disgorges, french, holiday, introspection, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Trial and Error
...The Bessemer furnace eats its fill
It melts and then disgorges its kill
Forged as in the fires of hell
The hard cool steel we know so well
Sharp yet malleable hammered out true
To build with streng...
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Categories:
disgorges, metaphor, strength,
Form: Rhyme