senryu – who’s ever asked = qui a demandé

senryu -  who’s ever asked = qui a demandé

who’s ever asked,
are we the only bipeds?
ask any ole’ bird

ask any bird senryu 620 

qui a demandé
sommes-nous les seuls bipèdes ?
les oiseaux le savent

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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