summer haiku d’hiver – on a stifling night – la nuit trop chaude

summer haiku d’hiver – on a stifling night – la nuit trop chaude

on a stifling night
wolves howl at the moon
echoing loons

wolves howling at the moon 620

la nuit trop chaude,
les loups hurlent à la lune,
échos des huards

Richard Vallance

3 responses to “summer haiku d’hiver – on a stifling night – la nuit trop chaude”

  1. ritaroberts Avatar

    I must have missed this one Richard. I spend each morning going through your Haiku’s and trying to keep up the the likes and re- blogs, but I can’t re-blog them all.

    1. vallance22 Avatar

      That is fine. Not to worry!

  2. vallance22 Avatar

    What in the name of God is wrong with this haiku. Someone please tell me! I have written similar haiku which have been well received.

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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