spring haiku de printemps – snowy owl = harfang des neiges

spring haiku de printemps – snowy owl = harfang des neiges

snowy owl
on driftwood –
ice drifted off

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harfang des neiges
sur le bois flotté –
glace à la dérive

Richard Vallance

Painting by Robert Bateman (1930 – ), Canadian naturalist painter
Peinture par Robert Bateman (1930 – ), peintre canadien naturaliste

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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