environmental summer haiku environnemental – the last bee = la dernière abeille

environmental summer haiku environnemental – the last bee = la dernière abeille




the last bee
pollinates the last rose
the last queen dead

la dernière abeille
féconde la dernière rose
la dernière reine morte

Richard Vallance

We are killing off the bees!

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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