spring haiku de printemps – snowdrops = les perce-neige

spring haiku de printemps – snowdrops = les perce-neige

snowdrops
splashed with rain drops
reduce me to tears

snowdrops haiku 620

les perce-neige
arrosés par la pluie
me font pleurer

Richard Vallance

photo by / par 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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