autumn haiku d’automne – shadows in the moonlight = au clair de lune

autumn haiku d’automne – shadows in the moonlight = au clair de lune

shadows in the moonlight
on the misty portage –
whose shadows are those?

portage in moonlight 620

au clair de lune
ombres du portage brumeux –
à qui sont-elles ?

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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