winter haiku d’hiver – bear moon = la lune de l’ours

winter haiku d’hiver – bear moon = la lune de l’ours  

the bear moon
over our hunters’ trails –
Windigo’s lairs

Bear Moon Windigo

la lune de l’ours
par-dessus nos sentiers –
tanières du Windigo

Richard Vallance

In the lunar calendar of the Amerindian Ojibways, Mkwa-Giizis, the Bear Moon, roughly corresponds to the month of February.

Dans le calendrier lunaire des Ojibways amérindiens, Mkwa-Giizis, la lune de l’ours, correspond à peu près au mois de février.

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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