summer haiku d’été – goldfish in flight = poisson rouge qui plane

summer haiku d’été – goldfish in flight = poisson rouge qui plane

Richard Vallance

goldfish in flight
over my own garden pond –
I mirror myself

flying goldfish 620

poisson rouge qui plane 
sur son étang du jardin –
y miroité

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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