Girlfriend Epigram Poems

These are my modern English translations/interpretations of ancient Greek poems by the immortal Sappho of Lesbos…

With my two small arms, how can I
think to encircle...

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ANACREONTIC (MY EPIGRAM TO FUNMI)

Ode to ¹"Oluwafunmilayo",
Gimme reckless & endless "²ayo",
More limitless & restless valor
bcos "³ní lé mi wà báyo",

Safe all the drama & "àló",
Let's...

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A wintry night 

Beam of scorching sunlight 
Eventually stifling inside through the curtain's strands
Loafing over the escritoire and olden snaps 
(some years ago i spend...

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I'll not give up on you 

I'll not give up on you 
Sometimes I will show off
Sometimes I will hide it

I'll not give up on...

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If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation...

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Sappho fragment 22
loose translation by Michael R. Burch 
 
That enticing girl's clinging dresses
leave me trembling, overcome by happiness,
as once, when I saw the Goddess...

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Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

*

Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch...

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Sometimes I wonder if you ever think of loving me
Loving a man like me, loving a man who has know ideal who you are
Sometimes in...

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A broken picker...
           
           has...

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I've been single too long
Obviously
That a mosquito is the only female
that wants to take a bite of me...

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LET MY LIPS


Let my lips divine
Love 
On hers, just for once
To place 

For

My soul’s breath to pass
Onto hers,
Life her to give 

And

Lifeless me to
Stay!



© Demetrios...

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UNHAPPINESS IS



Unhappiness is,
When I fail your melodic voice each moment
To hear       
And 
Your ethereal caresses on my body I...

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MUSE OF POETRY


Muse of poetry,
Why 
To silence my verses
You strive 
Whenever for her to
Write I long?

If better  
I didn’t know, 
I might  
Jealous...

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If
I were asked, my dear
What in you I would like
To change,
My answer, emphatically,
NOTHING, would be, 
Unchanged, I wish you 
To remain,

FOR

How could I dare interfere
With...

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The Splendor


The splendor
Of 
your eyes
Obliterated 
Every single memory 
Of
My heart!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
02 February 2013...

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