winter haiku d’hiver – chickadee huddled = mésange à tête noire

winter haiku d’hiver – chickadee huddled = mésange à tête noire

chickadee huddled
in a frozen pine ...
she longs for morning

chickadee huddled in a frozen pine620

mésange à tête noire
blottie dans un pin glacé ...
elle cherche le matin

Richard Vallance 

... Not that that would do much good, but at least she hopes against all hope.
... En dépit de la situation triste, elle espère contre tout espoir. 

Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.

Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.

Marble statue of Sappho on side profile.

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