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If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

Sappho

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery.
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Earth Embroidery Flower Spring
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
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Naked Nerve Resilience Sensitive Word Writing
You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.
SAPPHO

Forget Future Thinking Time Yourself
Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees.
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Heart Love Shook Tree Trouble
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
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Body Cushion Flow Gentle
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.
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Fall Love Mountain Nature
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
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Earth Heaven Precious
Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
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Fair Goodness Himself
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
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Delicious Hear Word
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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Beautiful Endurance Goodness Willing
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
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Alone Moon Pass Sleep Time
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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Experience Neighbor Virtue
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
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Anand Thakur
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
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Away Love Myself
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
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Anand Thakur

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