Success Hate Poems

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS



Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
I hate. I love.
You ask, 'Why not refrain?'
I wish I could explain.
I can't, but feel...

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You my dear will never make it in my family,
For our blood runs thick with tradition and legacy.
We hold ourselves to a higher standard,
And you,...

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You were the first 
To speak to herbs
And make the ailing cured.
The greatest healer known to all
Like ripples, your fame 
Was far spread.

Olubikin! Olubikin!
Heed the...

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For God's sake, we all make mistakes
We all commit inmumerable errors
Nobody is perfect, everybody is under the sticks
Like the old days in the school of...

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My cousin started molesting me at the age of 9. He said, “Don’t worry you’ll be just fine”. 
You told me I was special, said...

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Oh! talent , talented
It is good to have talent in the eyes of good people, 
Because a talented person is like their mobile museum,  
Where...

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Copy cats, 
I never liked them, 
They stalk like they don't care, 
But they do. 

They seem glad for your success, 
But they are just...

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Poem Title: Don't hate me 

Written by: Poet Jeremiah

Oh!
What I have done?
Do I deserve your bad treatment?
Why put me in the bush and hunt against...

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Success is the fruit of layman’s labor,
It’s good to enjoy, it’s nice to savor;
Sacrifice and toil, they are not in vain,
Even if oft times, the...

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When we compare the numbers
and percentages of innocent,
trusting lives lost
in significant part because of Christian
militarized
capitalized
patriarchal 
monotheistic judging fundamentalism,
punishing Afghanistan
and other Islamic cultures
over the past four...

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Stop hating to start loving
Start loving to stop hating
   Which one will it be

For some it's one
For some, the other
   It...

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*NIGHTMARE*

Beyond my lost mind,
Above my scary nightmares 
There live a wandering soul.
Attacked my the unseen demons.
Heart shattered but not broken,
But, broken on a shattered mirror.
The...

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Hate
In civilized quarters, an outrageous obscenity:
Unwashed, perishing pant
And, for real, a dismaying insanity,
When a hater heatedly rants
At his subject of unusual dislike,
Whom he would’ve loved...

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I'm a clown.
I'm here to make people happy.
I have to be happy.
After all, what's a clown without his smile?

A lot of people don't like me.
It's...

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Still a novice, 
pushed into world of avarice. 
Hearts gilded with greed, 
beautifully masked faces, so sweet indeed! 
Faces elated under twinkling night, 
welcoming your...

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