spring haiku de printemps – first thunderstorm = premier orage

spring haiku de printemps – first thunderstorm = premier orage

first thunderstorm
this spring, mind blowing wind!
I’m uprooted... no way!

Jean Francois Millet thunderstorm 620
 
premier orage
du printemps, vent époustouflant !
moi, déraciné

Richard Vallance

painting, A Gust of Wind (1871), by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

peinture, une Rafale ( 1871 ), Jean-François Millet ( 1814-1875 )

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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