winter haiku d’hiver – spring must be coming = le printemps arrive

winter haiku d’hiver – spring must be coming = le printemps arrive

spring must be coming –
one gust in the downpour
blasts my pants off!

gusty wind 620

le printemps arrive –
une seule rafale m’arrache
les pantalons !

Richard Vallance

The wind in the pouring is extremely gusty tonight, clocking in at around 100 kmh.!

Cette nuit les rafales dans la pluie torrentielle sont tellement fortes, à une vitesse de 100 kmh. !

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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