black
grey
blue
red
brown
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Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Sappho

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

Anand Thakur
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
SAPPHO

Experience Neighbor Virtue
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
SAPPHO

Heaven Instrument Myself Talk
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
SAPPHO

Agreement Death Evil God
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
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
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.
SAPPHO

Body Cushion Flow Gentle
From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.
SAPPHO

Earth Heaven Precious
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
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
Love – bittersweet, irrepressible – loosens my limbs and I tremble.
SAPPHO

Love Myself Tremble

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

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