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Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Sappho

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.
SAPPHO

Alone Moon Night Pass Time
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
SAPPHO

Breathe Command Immortal Myself Word
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
SAPPHO

Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It’s what one loves.
SAPPHO

Black Earth Face Infant Love Oneself
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
Whatever one loves most is beautiful.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO

Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
SAPPHO

Build Marriage Raise Sky
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
SAPPHO

Heart Mountain Myself Root Wild

Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.

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