summer haiku d’été – elephant, I weep! = éléphant, je pleure !

summer haiku d’été – elephant, I weep! = éléphant, je pleure !  

elephant, I weep!
felled by you filthy bastards! –
scum of the earth!

scum of the earth 620

éléphant, je pleure ! 
quels meurtriers t’abbattent ! –
racaille révoltante !

Richard Vallance

This horrifying photo makes me sick to my stomach! Just look at that poor innocent defenceless elephant senselessly slaughtered by what I call nothing less than filthy rotten f***ing pigs! They are the ones who don’t deserve to live!

Cette photo horrifiante me rend si malade que j’ai envie de vomir ! Voilà ce pauvre élépant innocent san défense massacré par ce qu’on doit définir comme des cochons vraiment révoltants, qui ne méritent même pas de vivre !  

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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