spring haiku de printemps – all our daffodils = toutes nos jonquilles

spring haiku de printemps – all our daffodils = toutes nos jonquilles

all our daffodils
hemmed in by rotten leaves
blossom sans souci *

daffodils and dead leaves 620

toutes nos jonquilles
entourées de feuilles mortes
fleurissent sans souci

Richard Vallance

* Although a French expression, sans souci is also English, and means “carefree”

* Bien qu’elle soit une expression française, sans souci l’est aussi en anglais et signifie « carefree » . 

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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