Novum Poems - Poems about Novum

...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, ......Read the rest...

...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams POEMS Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus” by Michael R. Burch Every corona has a silver lining: I......Read the rest...

... "The Payload" The payload came crashing down like rain expelled from the fat belly of a ruinous pregnant cloud bilious with buxom promise it came crashing down ......Read the rest...

...A sole dilemma is one's own mindset. All are ideal in the absence of erudition. Nothing needs changing in the intellect. Mental woes arise if struck by tradition. The globe is prese......Read the rest...

...From afar your shining mien I have espied with Ero’s awe; And though I’ve with wobbles Your fine shores trodden raw, That testing main I now must Tour with unhesitating resolve; And feast on y......Read the rest...

...Wonder and Despair, Twin brothers born of our need to know; These the tainted fruits These the light and dark Born of laboring knowledge. Learning's vanities Illuminate its limits. The hard cu......Read the rest...