spring haiku de printemps – the salamander = la salamandre

spring haiku de printemps – the salamander = la salamandre

the salamander
on a fern with fiddleheads 
on a glazed vase

salamander ferns fiddleheads

la salamandre
sur la fougère, les ornements
d ’un vase émaillé

Richard Vallance

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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