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I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.

Sappho

Hesperus bringing together All that the morning star scattered.
SAPPHO

Bring Morning Togetherness
I know not what to do, my mind is divided.
SAPPHO

Division Known Mindset Myself
If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.
SAPPHO

Nature Yourself
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO

Fantasy Love One Liner
Death is an ill; ’tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
SAPPHO

Death Decision God Sick
The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
SAPPHO

Alone Bank Heaven Hope Lying Moon Myself
How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away.
SAPPHO

Away Love Myself
In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.
SAPPHO

Death Evil God Judgement
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
SAPPHO

Delicious Hear Word
I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.
SAPPHO

Mindset Myself
He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.
SAPPHO

Fair Goodness Himself
When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
SAPPHO

Anand Thakur

I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.

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