Girlfriend Flower 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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Slowlly strolling down Lovers Lane,
     Where twilight's brisk breeze, blows blossoms astray.
     Sweet scents from fragrant flowers,
...

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Roses are red
Rosie is blue
Wondering where
Her boyfriend Fred
went to

He left in a hurry
In such a flurry
His mind a a blurry
Thinking of Rosie
Giving her posies

An afterthought...

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When i first kissed her, verses were beating in my heart.
I was like a bee on a sunflower.
The numbness you feel
running through my ink,
Is nothing...

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Honeybee danced round beautiful indeed
singing in my ear and pink Joe-pye weed.
I tried to shoo it away
the hummer this summer day
a nasty sharp sting that...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In a field of flowers, 
Born she, a flower different from others.

Though a fragrant rose in the valley she wished to be,
Became she, a victim...

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She loves me 
She loves me not
She's a two petal flower
But she's what I got

She says that she loves me
she says that each day
She says...

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All alone but happy still, Vibrant, Full, Delighted, Outwards stretched rays of yellow, Holding strong, foundation grounded, Moving with the ebb and flow of forces...

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Blood
crimson
not called by
any other 
name

Bud 
perfect 
crown petal
Donald's girlfriend
bold 

Gold
sun rise
Mary's joy
orange sun sets
red

Moth
and queen
corsages
colorful blooms
large

She
naked
lilies kin
belladonna
pink 

Blue
purple
red and white
sun worshipers
pig

Quaint 
fancy 
velvet tufts
ostensible 
face

Liz
easy
popular
multicolored
shade

Dull
deadly...

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It always starts with your mouth
You plant your words in my head like seeds
One by one they bury deep in my mind
Their roots cling on

Your...

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She A Flower So Delicately Blown

Hath there been far more kinder words I said
in my deep-fired angry accusations.
Our romance would have carried on instead
of this...

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In the sunny September morning
He went to find the most beautiful roses
For the girl, he loved the most.

He didn't realize that it was fall
Getting beautiful...

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Today I want to plant a rose flower,
It would be to my beloved soft corner.
When I will not be here,
The flower will be bloomed there.
Our...

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flowers are insignificant
gone so soon, waxen petals wilt away in mere hours
so delicate the breeze will break them

this is not the budding of a rose,...

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