senryu – of all the cats = de tous les chats

senryu – of all the cats = de tous les chats

of all the cats,
tuxedo baby face –
why, that’s you!

baby face 620

de tous les chats,
chatte tuxedo, visage d’enfant – 
eh bien, c’est toi !
 
Richard Vallance

In this photo, my little Tuxedo cat, Petunia, looks like a baby!
Dans cette photo, ma petite chatte Tuxedo, Petunia, a l’air d’un bébé !
 

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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