winter haiku d’hiver – alone with her cat = seule avec son chat

winter haiku d’hiver – alone with her cat =  seule avec son chat

alone with her cat
in the shivering shadows
she spies a wolf

cat and wolf haiku 620

seule avec son chat
dans la pénombre froide
elle y voit un loup

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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