Author: brhepner

SACRILEGIUM GALLINACEUM Nunc pullum classesque cano, qui pervenit acerut Drepani annotet a dis de eventu sine verbis.Navibus expectant undis ingentibus hostes:sunt inimici sic sitientes bella cruora.Sollicitat verbum contra bellum modo Pulcher.Augur cum granis venit ad Pulchrum gravitate.In ponte augure far exspargitur ut iubet Pulcher.Tunc Jovis exit avis cameram tumide graviterque.Divinus glocidat; cito quaerunt omina nautae.Nunc…

Two poems inspired by objects recovered from the Phoenician ship in the Archaeological Museum at Marsala: EPIGRAM NAUTAE ORBICULUSAd telam assidens mater sub vespere sola,   Omnino lacrimis flet tunicamque rigat,Fila secans gemitu, circum assurgentibus umbris,   Quare liquisti me sine luce tua? THE SAILOR’S BUTTONA mother sitting alone at her loom as evening falls,   weeps and thoroughly drenches the…

SAL (Elegiac Couplet)Lentae nonne valent gustum proferre salinae?   Dic mihi, qui vates invenit inde sales? WITSluggish salt-pans can produce taste, can’t they?   Tell me, what bard gets wit from them? METRICAL HAIKU BEE HERE NOWFenestra clausaBombilat intus apisCaptiva semper A closed windowOn the inside buzzes a beeA prisoner always GOLDEN LINE Candida vivifices evitant bracchia solesWhite arms…

NOCTES IN SICILIA (Elegiac Couplets)Iam ioca coeperunt Scopae lasciva gradatim:   iucunde multo sceniciora vicem.Sic celebremus amicitiam nos deinde fruamur   perpetuae noctis simpliciore sale.Fustes et gladii sicut per corda sagittae   in mensam nobis auraque vasa volent.Parcite militibus dominisque a casibus Hercle!   Effugiant equites et patiantur eri! NIGHTS IN SICILYAlready the playful games of Scopa have begun little by little:   all too…

METRICAL HAIKU FONTANASALSASalem ac leporesquis solet edere fons?Fontana Salsa. SALTY SPRINGWhat spring always brings forthsalt [=wit] and pleasantries?Salty Spring. LOCAL FAUNALanguesco muscisinnumerabilibusexsanguinatus. I grow weak,drained of bloodby uncountable flies. EPIGRAM DE VERSIBUS COMPONENDISInfelix qui non potui cognoscere rhythmi   causas, sed sedeo stultus ineptus hebes,erodens unguis, papyrum et calamos male dicens,   calvitium pulsans, iudiciumque tremens.ON VERSE COMPOSITIONUnfortunate I,…

METRICAL HAIKU DRACONESDies vocavitalta cacumina. Nuncsurgunt dracones. DRAGONSThe day has summonedthe lofty peaks. Nowthe dragons awaken.

GOLDEN LINE Silvicolus parvos agitat ranunculus ulmos.The little wood-dwelling frog shakes the young elm trees. EPIGRAM Scribere candida ubi conans ego carmina quare   perdita sum? Quis me leviget arte rudem?Quomodo? Thesauris, sociis iam consiliandis?   Libris volvendis? Aurea vatis ero. Whenever I try to write beautiful poetry, why   am I lost? Who might skillfully polish foolish me?How? Now by…

METRICAL HAIKU CUR?Atlas tenerecaelum umeris voluit.Mortalium ergo. WHY?Atlas wantedto hold the heavens on his shoulders.On account of mortals.