summer haiku d’été – koi, brocaded carp = koi, la carpe brodée

summer haiku d’été – koi, brocaded carp =  koi, la carpe brodée

koi, brocaded carp
in seashore shallows
nibbling on seaweed

koi haiku

koi, la carpe brodée
dans l’eau peu profonde
qui grignote les algues

Richard Vallance

The Japanese word for brocaded carp is KOI. This word is sometimes found in Japanese haiku.

six koi

Le mot japonais qui signifie la carpe brodée, c’est KOI. Ce mot se trouve parfois dans les haikus japonais.

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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