summer haiku – stray kitten = chaton égaré

summer haiku – stray kitten = chaton égaré

stray kitten
on a ramshackle porch –
his infected eye

his infected eye

chaton égaré
sur un porche délabré –
l’oeil infecté

Richard Vallance

3 responses to “summer haiku – stray kitten = chaton égaré”

  1. ritaroberts Avatar

    Awe ! he looks so sad.

    1. vallance22 Avatar

      Yes, the poor little tyke does. It is awful.

      1. vallance22 Avatar

        Thanks!

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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