METRICAL HAIKU

Sic hospites nos
venimus; exiimus
sic nos amici.

Thus we arrived
as strangers; thus we left
as friends.

CULEX I
Culex, sedebis
pectore nuncque meae
vires bibentur.

Mosquito, you will
sit on my chest, and now my
strength will be drunk.

LOQUAX
Communicat qui
iudicium nimium
sic stultior fit.

TALKATIVE
A person who shares
his opinions too much thus
becomes more stupid.

 

GOLDEN LINE

Indomita antiquum pulsabant maria litus
The ancient shore is beaten by the untamed seas.

 

EPIGRAM

CULEX II
Ecce culex sedit, sculptura tenellula spinae.
   Rostello tacito perforat ista manum.
Sed, potu poto, propria ebriolast fuga namque
   venula sanguinis est propria plena meri.

Behold, the mosquito has sat, a delicate little sculpture of a needle.
   With its silent little beak that mosquito punctures my hand.
But, drink having been drunk, its own flight is now drunk, for
   my own little vein is full of undiluted blood.

 

VARIA

MAD DOG (Dactylic Hexameter)
It took us a while to trust an overly interested stray dog. He never did actually bite anyone.

Discipuli insanus demordet membra catellus
The insane little dog bites off the limbs of the student.

SCOPA DREAMS (Dactylic Hexameter)
In somnis scopae certe video aurea septem
In my dreams of Scopa I see the seven golden objects.

COLOSSI UMBRA (Elegiac Couplet)
In pratis campisque colossus provehit arma
   hinc illuc errans perdita vita sua

SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS
In fields and plains the colossus carries weapons,
   wandering from here to there, its life having perished.