CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgi...
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Categories:
ineffectually, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2
Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial'
translation by Michael R. Burch
1.
Through many lands and over many seas
I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites,
to t...
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Categories:
ineffectually, brother, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Futile Foray
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The uphill climb,
rigorously relentless
with ambling ambitions
and schematic stratagem,
blueprinted blatantly
on the blank
parchment of mind,
sketched skillfully
with chameleon color s...
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Categories:
ineffectually, analogy, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
ineffectually, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 2
...Gamesomeness goads gawky, gingerly,
goofily graceful, grandiloquent gent, gallant,
genteel, geico, guppy gecko, gabbling gaffes,
gagging, gamboling, gestating, gesticulating,
garlic, gnashing, go...
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Categories:
ineffectually, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
On An Outlaw
...We are antonyms—of each other
(an in-law, a retired Colonel,
Who very often forgets
That he’s retired)
And I.
He’s an in-law,
But I think of him as an Outlaw!
We are of a family.
He lives u...
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Categories:
ineffectually, funny, poetry,
Form: Free verse