senryu- whatever’s a cat? = c’est quoi, un chat ?

senryu- whatever’s a cat? = c’est quoi, un chat ?

whatever’s a cat? 
whoever’s a cat?
whoever knows ...

whatever's a cat haiku c'est quoi, un chat 620

c’est quoi, un chat ?
c’est qui, un chat ?
celui qui le sait...

Richard Vallance

The question is open-ended. If anyone knows who a cat is, he or she should perhaps let us in on the secret.

La question est ouverte. Si personne sait qui est un chat, il ou elle pourrait sans doute nous révéler sa connaissance secrète.

 

 

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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