winter haiku/haibun d’hiver – sake passed around = sake partagé

winter haiku/haibun d’hiver - sake passed around = sake partagé

sake passed around
in the Edo * inn - 
winter blues? pouf!

* the former name of Tokyo




sake partagé
dans l’auberge à Edo - 
tristesse ** d’hiver ? pouf !

** d’habitude = dépression saisonnière, mais c’est trop long dans un haiku.

print by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) - The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō 47th station = gravure, les cinquante-trois stations du Tōkaidō, 47ième staton  

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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