senryu – Chopin’s Nocturnes = Nocturnes de Chopin

senryu – Chopin’s Nocturnes = Nocturnes de Chopin

Chopin’s Nocturnes
serenading the night –
pianissimo

pianissimo 620

Nocturnes de Chopin
sérénades à la nuit  –
pianissimo

Richard Vallance


This senryu is dedicated to Willem Tensen for his great love of music.

Ce senryu est dévoué à Willem Tensen, grâce à sa passion pour la musique.

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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