summer haiku d’été – frenzied crows = corbeaux effrénés

summer haiku d'été – frenzied crows = corbeaux effrénés




in the firestorm
frenzied crows spin in fear,
their wings scorched black

incendie de forêt,  
les corbeaux effrénés fuient,
les ailes brûlées noires

Richard Vallance

screen capture from Utube video – capture d'écran d'UTube 

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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