Marriage Love Hurts Poems

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3


Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses
are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?

As...

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Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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Meeting after all this time
Is such a wonderful surprise.
Meeting after so many years
Chased tears into my eyes.
Although you have cut your hair
And lost a pound...

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Act 3

Shall I have thee slaughtered? 
Hung drawn and quartered?
Speak of marriage? 
White horse and carriage?
Do you truly love me? 
What of those two or...

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The Dirt Road

We live at the end of a dirt road. 
We are miles and miles from town. 
There is no one around. 

No one...

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Countless pages of heartbreak and balancing wages
I’m tired of waiting ages and writing about my blues.   
Cuz all I thought about, was you…
Putting...

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Don't Let Go

Life gets hard, 
and seems...
overwhelming at times. 
Don't let go. 

Life gets rough, 
not just at the edges, 
but all over. 
Don't let...

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She was a woman of beauty and grace
With a heart that longed for a lover's embrace
Her marriage was dull and devoid of desire
But a new...

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The Disaster.

When you play the helpless victim,
making me out to be a whore.

I'll move out of the equation,
Your fantasy villain, no more!

When I feel like...

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LOST LOVE


long parting kiss-

imprinted upon my lips

her lingering heat


tears flood my cheek

I whisper au-revoir-

winter clouds my soul...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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And from the rain I shall emerge 
   though drenched in pain and scarred by love
For nothing solely worth the wait
  ...

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I was trapped in a marriage
It wasn't going together
Like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can have one without the other
Try and try...

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I
Capitalists sell prayers and hope
From China, PRC, to you and me
In images and words: forward these
To all your contacts - such positivity
Yet we hear, embedded...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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