Today's poem:

[I seek and desire]
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#sappho #love #desire #poetry #separation #longing

Today's poem:

I seek and desire
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#Sappho #poetry #desire #journey #drive #impetus

A Love Letter to the Beating Heart

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/heart-romance-health-organ.html

Over on Insta, there’s this lovely rainbowy" art challenge called "Hue Years Resolution". Since it’s the first time in ages I’ve actually made something creative again I wanted to share it here too. I participated with "hidden poems" also known as "Blackout poetry". In German I named them "Versteckte Verse". Annnnnyhow, here goes the first one in red:

"Sappho
sighed
and
began to
like
more Sapphos. She invented
sighing."

(1/6)

#MastoArt #HueYearsResolution #VerstVers #BlackoutPoetry #Sappho

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

"Sappho" fresco/Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus, 50 - 79 CE, Pompeii

The "Sappho" fresco is a 1st-century AD painting from Pompeii depicting a young woman holding a writing tablet and stylus, symbols of literacy and education in Roman society. Though 19th-century scholars speculated it portrayed the Greek poet Sappho, modern scholars believe it’s simply an upper-class Pompeiian woman. Discovered in 1760, the fresco is now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and notably inspired Chinese poet Shao Xunmei to take up poetry after he saw it in the early 1920s.