senryu – mummy and daddy = maman et papa

senryu – mummy and daddy = maman et papa 

mummy and daddy
wise cats with their kittens –
what divine love!

mummy and daddy with kittens 620

maman et papa
chats sages avec leurs chatons –
quel amour divin !
 
Richard Vallance

The picture in this senryu is fuzzy because it is a video clip.

L'image de ce senryu est floue parce ce qu'elle est un clip vidéo. 

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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