senryu – crow stealing dentures = dentiers volés

senryu – crow stealing dentures = dentiers volés

crow stealing dentures
from an old man –
toothless ole’ groggin

crow steals dentures senryu 620

le beau corbeau vole
les dentiers d’un vieillard  –
enfin édenté

Richard Vallance

2 responses to “senryu – crow stealing dentures = dentiers volés”

  1. ritaroberts Avatar

    I wonder where he got them from . The owner must have had them in a glass to clean them, but how did this bird get hold of them. My bird Ziggy, steals my earings from out of my ears while she sits on my shoulder. Nice one Richard.

    1. vallance22 Avatar

      me too! Ziggy you naught bird! Just goes to show you. She is undoubtedly attracted by the shininess of your earrings!

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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