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the robin and the cemetery

...The robin redbreast is hardly afraid,
He is not afraid of cemeteries,
Seeing me, he lands on the grave of the Bouvier family,
Looks at me, then flies on that of Cécile Kerneis,
Since he is Breton...

'On a Betrothed Girl' by Erinna translation

...These are modern English translations of epigrams and poems by the ancient Greek poet Erinna...

On a Betrothed Girl
by Erinna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I sing of Ba...

Stele with names carved

...Names carved on a stone 
A stele made for the dead 
Denoting the hunters or fighters
Chasing to kill innocent animals 
Or fighting the lives of  people 
For dying brutal or dying cruel 

I rea...

Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1

...*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.

Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1

(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)

He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew...

Alone In Scary Silence

...The moon veiled in a web darkness;
bejeweled in radiance starkness,
to delve into the dark only the prince of darkness.

I was alone in the silence weaves,
while childish, I walk thr...

And the Mothers Weep

...AND THE MOTHERS WEEP
                                  by
                     JOHN M. ARRIBAS



A young lanky sod buster with no place to go
Thought things would be better in San Antonio
Jo...

The Come and Go Pattern Forms the Present and Past

...Everything in this world is ever on change fast;
The come and go pattern forms the present and past.
Historic sites are preserved everywhere on landscape;
And now we can climb and visit them in in...

The Love of Tiamat

...behold now everything on this earth;
    the fields with abundance of grain,
    palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
    the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that scorch them;
    ...

On My Death

...To the gravedigger, dear sir
let the ivy grow and the rain fall in the stele
As a flower fall from Eden, I hear the angels sing
While I slightly twist and turn in the God’s acre, so deep.
Erstwhi...

Circumspice 5

...Part 5  --  Si Monumentum Requiris …

Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War?
so who on earth was fighting – and what for?)
That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right,
with Jesus and His lan...

The Sullivans

...THE SULLIVANS, 1942
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




It was a cold  blustery day in Waterloo
An Iowan winter with not much to do
A silent military mission was underway
Three warriors  here with a chi...

Did I Say What I Said You Said

...Did I say What I said You said

You said looking a little forlorn
						a little redundant
	the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
   thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the da...

Ad Amore, Ii

...Beatrice Discerno in te come s'agona 
                   la libertate onde 'l superno seme
                   da la fatal famiglia vi disclona.

                   Ora viatico non sia teco la spe...

Books Etched In Stone

...The community cemetery adjoined
the rear fence-line of his property.
Broad, rolling green acres landscaped
with varieties of shrubbery and trees.
Monuments in lines, rows, and diagonal patterns. ...

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