Love Sparrow Poems

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 this...

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I was wondering when you will come, the year is almost done, and here I am in this place with little hope of joining the...

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Why stone the sparrow as she sings
                 To silence...

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She has been appearing since my son died
lands on that branch to remind me
God sent me His sparrow
He has not forsaken me
Love goes beyond the...

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An old tree fell this evening,
Its ancient heart surrendered to the saw's cruel embrace,
The gnarled branches yielding to human ambition.
Nobody listened to the crying sparrows,
Their...

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The faeries were enormously busy that wet spring
Coaxing, encouraging and begging a sparrow to sing.
He wore a hat with a cherry I think it was...

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i am watching a mother sparrow
feed her offspring, we are blessed
by this innate ubiquitous nature 
it is by the mother's breast 
comes the promise
God still...

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A dove in white attire gave a letter in its claws
To a sleeping bird prince soon to get applause
The dove sang a tune to cast...

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Edith Piaf was a sparrow
Who ignored the "straight and narrow"
No pure white dove
She sang for love
Just as wild as Cupid's arrow...

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failing to see which road would be best,
not knowing how much i've really been blessed-
too much time on my hands with too much fear,
wishing you,...

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God surveys the sparrow as she cares for her young,
and attends to her every tune as it's sung.

He enables each egg to hatch in its...

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A sparrow flutters
I don't want to let it go
It's time to release...

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I don’t know how many millions or billions
Of sparrows there are, but the Father does
How can he know when each sparrow falls?
He knows every detail...

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just as a sparrow
black lives matters, matters, so
as does the sparrows

6/14/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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What if I had a dove and sparrow;
both whom lit on my shoulder;
I'd embrace them;

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In awe,
until I would get older;
Then I would show them;

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How much...

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