spring haiku de printemps – daffodils, we chorus! = jonquilles, quel refrain !

spring haiku de printemps – daffodils, we chorus! = jonquilles, quel refrain ! 

daffodils, we chorus
Joy to the World!
Our Lord is come!

daffodils we chorus 620

jonquilles, tes refrains !
la Joie dans le monde ! 
Le Seigneur arrive !

Richard Vallance 

I don’t know about you, but I adore this haiku I was so deeply inspired to pen. While singing it, I was moved to tears!

Je ne sais guère ce que vous en pensez, mais moi,  j’adore cet haiku qui m’a si profondément inspiré.  Alors que je le chantais, j’étais ému aux larmes !

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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