spring haiku de printemps – icebergs drifting = icebergs à la dérive

icebergs drifting
down iceberg alley –
daisies wave at them

icebergs 620

icebergs à la dérive
dans l’allée des icebergs –
tant de marguerites

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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