spring haiku d’été – Van Gogh – irises = Van Gogh – iris

spring haiku d’été – Van Gogh – irises = Van Gogh – iris

all these irises
swaying in the breeze
Van Gogh paints with ease

Vincent van Gogh Irises 1889 620

tous ces iris
qui ondulent dans la brise,
Van Gogh à l’aise

Richard Vallance

Painting, Irises (May, 1889) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).

Peinture, les Iris ( mai, 1889 ) par Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-1890 ).

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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