autumn haiku d’automne – russet maple leaves = feuilles d’érable

autumn haiku d’automne – russet maple leaves = feuilles d’érable

russet maple leaves
scattering sunlight –
gossamer veils

russet maple leaves 620

feuilles d’érable
rouges qui dispersent le soleil –
voiles transparents

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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