summer haiku d’été – my Hopi tie = ma cravate Hopi

summer haiku d’été – my Hopi tie = ma cravate Hopi

my Hopi tie –
she shouts, I love that tie! 
and I, so do I!

Hopi tie 620

ma cravate Hopi –
elle crie, j’adore cette cravate !
et moi, moi aussi !
 
Richard Vallance

As it so happens, last evening, May 4, while my boyfriend, Louis-Dominique and I were on the way to see the mind-blowing concert by Leela Gilday at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, a woman shouted out, I LOVE THAT MAN’S TIE!... to which I of course replied, SO DO I!

Hier soir, comme la situation voulait si bien démontrer, lorsque mon ami de coeur, Louis-Dominique et moi, nous nous rendions vers le Centre national des arts, Ottawa afin d’assister au concert étonnant de Leela Gilday, une femme a crié, J’ADORE LA CRAVATE DE CET HOMME ! et moi, j’ai bien répondu ( mais naturellement ! ), ET MOI AUSSI ! 

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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