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Procne Poems - Poems about Procne


Sappho Translations VIII
...Sappho Translations VIII by Michael R. Burch Sappho, fragment 68 translation by Michael R. Burch That was then, this is now! In those days my maidenhead was in full bloom, then you … ......

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Categories: procne, brother, daughter, desire, hair,
Form: Free verse
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: procne, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse



Ii Procne
...I must be dreaming. Alas, through every dream, like pain through anesthesia, a torturous reality shows up. A burning taste of jealousy. A blind deaf muteness of lust… I think I’d better ......

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Categories: procne, myth,
Form: Verse
I Philomela - Cm
...Blessed be the hour when angels shake my filth off their wings. The night was a garden of eyes*. Luckily, days are blind. Mute with the sinful obsession, deaf to the call of blood, I look for......

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Categories: procne, myth,
Form: Verse

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