winter haiku d’hiver – two wilted trees = deux arbres flétris

winter haiku d’hiver –  two wilted trees = deux arbres flétris

two wilted trees
on the brushwood path –
skeletal mirage

2 wilted trees

deux arbres flétris
dans les brousailles –
mirage de squelettes

Richard Vallance


This photo was taken by my friend, Willem Tensen, while on a hike in the Hollywood Hills, late January 2019.

Mon ami, Willem Tensen, a pris cette photo, lors d’une randonnée dans les collines de Hollywood, vers la fin de janvier, 2019.

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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