Moon Eros 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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fa sai lo ye say ye ah
tell me that you 
love me
tell me that you
love me
Hera, Hera, might
nights find me with you
Hera, oh Hera
How I...

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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 TRANSLATIONS

Eros harrows my heart:
wild winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.
—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch



Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

No droning...

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The early morning
harbors our secrets

I am lifted
by her love

Surrounded and fed
embraced by her love

Late at night
I compare
the moon to her face

But the moon
does not have
her...

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