winter haiku d’hiver by Regis Auffray – a sudden cold snap, translated into French by Richard Vallance

winter haiku d’hiver by Regis Auffray – a sudden cold snap, translated into French by Richard Vallance 

a sudden cold snap
ice floes form on the river –
my poor daffodils 

cold snap haiku 620

vague de froid soudaine
glaces flottantes sur le fleuve –
mes pauvres jonquilles

Regis Auffray


... wonderful winter haiku by Regis Auffray translated into French by Richard Vallance

... merveilleux haiku d’hiver par Regis Auffray, traduit en anglais par Richard Vallance 

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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