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Sappho Translations V

...Sappho Translations V by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 23
translation by Michael R. Burch

I long helplessly for love.
Gazing into your eyes not even Hermione compares.
Who is your equa...

Unadorned

...

                                                Unadorned

                                Let me leave this temporal sky
                              Unadorned, unmourned, unwept;
         ...

Echoes of Unmourned

...the flowers he is holding are just one of the reminders
of that grief he is holding on so rigidly,
prompting a picture of his wife, sniffing the same flowers
as she walked the aisle, he smiles stu...

Lament For Ukraine

...They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks
Covered in various armaments of war.
Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence,
Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land,
And desecrating the once...

I Wandered Lonely As a Leaf That Falls

...Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I heard a far bird's calls
Magic I'd mis...

Next of Kin

...On glossy pages generally reserved for stars of stage and screen
golden calves lounging casually on cushioned chaises, deities of decadence
sunlight streamed in black and white through filthy, film...

King of Lies

...King of Lies

It's all about you,
Isn't it?
Always, no matter what the disaster
You've most recently caused.
It always comes back to you,
How badly you're treated 
By the Fake News
(By which...

Hubris

...Certain men have risen to claim dominance over society,
Their actions attest to barren depths of indifference,
Caring not that those who are unable to fight back
Are trodden beneath the heavy boot...

It Flew Past My Window

...It flew past my window early this morn
  A winged creature with a singular horn
    Of so many things did this creature warn 

Of once-towering figures, their reputations now shorn
  Of lovers w...

Resting Place

...I live under dark lonely clouds
Pregnant with acid rain 
Burn into my skin, every drop a blister 
I call out your name in whispers
Become I a wraith that haunts its own house
Floating through a ...

Unmourned

...You were not present.
Far from the pallid sky- 
in the graveyard, 
the marbled tears 
had become the eyes.

The meanness of the grill.
It will not fix the sun.
I stand by a river,
which was ...

Be Not Juliet

...But fiction you are, our Juliet, unborn,
mere humans find love so hard to portray, 
thus leading many to their death, astray,
fear not a Romeo is born each day.
Childless children be not to death...

September Sunset Over St Petersburg

...SEPTEMBER   SUNSET    OVER     ST.  PETERSBURG


Final fling  of color and movement from the sun
Celebration of  life  before it’s   done.
Bits and pieces  of beauty  criss-crossed
And all is higgled...

Ice Funeral

...ICE     FUNERAL


My River Smolenka has been free of ice now for weeks, but today 
I saw the flat smoothly-flowing river  steaming   grey  - 

Bearing  remnant  ice-floes from some upper tribut...

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