winter haiku d’hiver – a gift for my son = cadeau pour mon fils

winter haiku d’hiver – a gift for my son = cadeau pour mon fils 

a gift for my son 
the spider in amber
lost in the snow

a spider in amber 620

cadeau pour mon fils 
l’araignée dans l’ambre
perdue dans la neige

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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