summer haiku – our ole’ puddy tat = mon vieux matou

summer haiku – our ole’ puddy tat = mon vieux matou

our ole’ puddy tat
dozing in our gazebo 
outsmarting the rain

gazebo in the rain 620

mon vieux matou 
endormi dans mon belvédère,
la pluie chassée

Richard Vallance

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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