senryu – I, the sky shark = moi, requin du ciel

senryu – I, the sky shark = moi, requin du ciel

I, the sky shark
floating through clouds
wolfing down birds

sky shark in clouds 620

moi, requin du ciel,
je flotte parmi les nuages –
j’avale les oiseaux

Richard Vallance 

This senryu is an expression of the Japanese kanji for my own birthday.

Ce senryu exprime les kanjis japonais qui représent mon anniversaire de naissance.


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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