senryu – exoplanets, the cradle of life = exoplanètes, le berceau de la vie

senryu – exoplanets, the cradle of life = exoplanètes, le berceau de la vie 

dear exoplanets,
where is the cradle of life? 
a child is born *

cradle of life 620

chères exoplanètes,
où est le berceau de la vie ?  
un enfant est né *

Richard Vallance

* This is of course a reference to the birth of Christ.

* Voilà qu’il s’agit de la naissance du Christ. 

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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