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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...

Categories: votives, brother, death, death of
Form: Free verse

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2

...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 t...

Categories: votives, brother, death, death of
Form: Rhyme

GOTHICISTA martini nothke

...GOTHICISTA 
perceptible
 & transcendental
contra
  distinctive
     votives
neo realistic
fundamentals
 in
  fabulous
detail
of the sophisticated
refined& elegant
panoramas...

Categories: votives, art,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Unselfish Heart

...Line of inquiry - Ego shorn, here now reborn.

Unselfish Heart

The glow of the unselfish heart
Decorates emptiness with candles
While scattered relics of garden purity
Re-light votives in Bab...

Categories: votives, birth,
Form: Free verse

North Rim

...Grand Canyon darkness—city nights,
towering votives in wingless flight
Elevator to the desperate peak,
ninety-nine floors above the waiting street

Torment and doubt ride to the top,
buttons nu...

Categories: votives, death, life, suicide,
Form: Rhyme

Welcome To Soup Creek Town

...If you come to Soup Creek town
With any ulterior motives
Best go first to the local chapel
And light a few candle votives,
We, the citizens, have values
Not to mention a few morals
A...

Categories: votives, anti bullying, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse

The Storm

...The Storm

      There is just enough love 
      to know what I should do
      I did not know the spirals
      the zig zag, the sharpness
      of the cuts
      of being your mother

   ...

Categories: votives, grief,
Form: Free verse

Imprint of Sorrow

...Amidst the solitude of empty pews in hallowed halls
she took a seat and prayed she would not be forsaken.
Candles lit, soft glow throwing shadows on the walls.
Tear glistened cheeks, c...

Categories: votives, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme

Paris Redivivus

...Your breath beside me. 
Willows beneath my boughs. 
Last night you cast love’s imposters out the door.
Supine in your divinity, my thoughts tremble. 

Drunk in memories. 
I’m twenty-three in Pa...

Categories: votives, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Union of Ultimates

...Come to me my eastern star, to your love mystery Avatar,
travel the path of my tantric wish to where touch is holy spectacular, 
discover the dharma that has delivered the dream of Ardhanarishvara
...

Categories: votives, desire, encouraging, joy, love,
Form: Epic

Labryinth

...Religious votives
light a somber lair.
A hole I fathered
with rhinestones of doubt
and swatches of fault.

Sentinels loom -
vapid gargoyles
crouch in ghostly
contemplation

ogling my
hand...

Categories: votives, introspection
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Timber Cove

...Autumn day's goldenrays seap through heaven's gentle blues
                    Shading, tangled leaves fire colors,autumn's unfallen few
It's flowered clearings...calming and pleasant...devine sola...

Categories: votives, nature, autumn, autumn,
Form: Pastoral

Jewels Blossom

...Silent motion jasmine votives flicker
near jewel blossoms embraced in painted hand-made wicker
barely surviving this winter's frostbite
closed pedals sunstained pale in window light
blushing pink...

Categories: votives, nature,
Form: Narrative