Epigrams Poems - Poems about Epigrams

...Cowpoke by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16 Sleep, old man... your day has long since passed. The endless plains, cool midnight rains and changeless ragged cows alone remain of what once was.......Read the rest...

...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........Read the rest...

...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and votes, for you are my retribution. May I offer you dark......Read the rest...

...In a Stolen Moment by Michael R. Burch In a stolen moment, when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course and sleep is the night’s dark spell, I call it a curse, seeking the force,......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...

...A Perthshire Lad Grew to manhood on the river Tay, Writing poems ,most every day; Cinquains,epigrams,whigmaleerie- His diary of a dying man,left Telling observations, for all to see. Tribut......Read the rest...

...Martial Translations Coq au vin (Cook or wine) by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe, but are you merely an éclair to ......Read the rest...

...Trump poems and epigrams V The prez should be above the law, he sez, even though he’s no longer prez. —Michael R. Burch Mercedes Benz by Michael R. Burch I'd like to do a song of grea......Read the rest...

...NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form) Tribute to William Soutar Grew to manhood on the river ......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE by Michael R. Burch Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare by Michael R. Burch a tweet by any other name would be as fleet! Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to......Read the rest...

...EPIGRAMS IV Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience. —Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I didn’t me......Read the rest...

...It is not possible refuse to die or to live...! live in leaps and ravines, is a way of living too... not even death give us rest in life... Death does not release us from life... the......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Sappho Translations I Sappho, fragment 132 (Lobel-Page 132) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I have a delightful daughter fairer than the fairest flowers, Cleis, whom......Read the rest...

...Marcus Martialis with epigrams was 'delish' A clever satirist in witty words did persist......Read the rest...