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31 Tuesday Aug 2021

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Aeschylus, cunnilingus, erotic poetry, Odd Nature of Death, of all the gods, Sappho, sonnet

The day done gray. “Of the gods,” Aeschylus

said, “Death alone does not crave gifts.” The rest

love their altars and praise; become jealous

and ill-tempered if crossed. For Death the blessed

and the sinner are the same and worms feed

on them all. “Death shall be Death forever,”

Sappho said; unlike us, love, with our need

to see ourselves in what we praise. Lover,

love me now before I become just dust

of ten thousand years. My gift is coaxing

of my tongue – stroking foam – sucking obscene

– tasting what you crave. Let the righteous rust

since Death won’t care if we do everything,

nothing or just hardcore bling in-between.

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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright, known as the, “Father of Tragedy.” Sappho, “The 10th Muse,” was master of the lyric poem. I like what Kenneth Rexroth said about her art, “There has been no other poet like this. Wherever enough words remain to form a coherent context, they give one another a unique luster, an effulgence found nowhere else. Presentational immediacy of the image, overwhelming urgency of personal involvement — in no other poet are these two prime factors of lyric poetry raised to so great a power.”

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21 Tuesday Aug 2018

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With his venom/ Irresistible/ and bittersweet/ that loosener/ of limbs, Love/ reptile-like/ strikes me down.

Sappho (trans. Mary Barnard)

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19 Thursday Jul 2018

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And I said … I shall burn the fat thigh-bone of a white she-goat on her altar …

Sappho

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20 Friday Apr 2018

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I loved you once, Atthis, long ago. You seemed like a child to me, little and graceless.

Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)

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20 Friday Apr 2018

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For me neither honey nor the honey bee.

Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)

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20 Friday Apr 2018

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What girl has seduced you? Draped in burlap, she doesn’t even know to pull her rags down over her ankles.

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blessed one/ lovely braids … O Cypris may she find you more bitter still and Dorikha not boast of her desire come to fulfillment a second time.

Sappho, fragments (tran. S. Lombardo)

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01 Wednesday Nov 2017

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blast of love, metaphyics, poem, Poetry, Sappho, willis barnstone

Like a mountain whirlwind
punishing the oak trees,
love shattered my heart.

Sappho (translated by Willis Barnstone)

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01 Wednesday Nov 2017

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metaphyics, paralysis, poem, Poetry, Sappho, willis barnstone

Mother darling, I cannot work the loom,
for sleek Aphrodite has almost crushed
and broken me with desire for a boy.

Sappho (translated by Willis Barnstone)

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26 Friday Feb 2016

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I’ve borne no children, Is my love nothing, quote unquote, Sappho

Is my love nothing for I’ve borne no children?

Sappho
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