Letters from some Friends # 8.

  Sappho

"I don’t expect to touch the sky
with my two hands . . ."

Ah, so you like fragments?
A song barely started? ||

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No? Then you listen for the sweet singing,
of a long since silent lyre!
|A rare talent |

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Museful thoughts to be updated?
Your Hubble vision finds skies
beyond reach, beyond need for
touching.| |

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Apparently Gods no longer enjoy
their distance.
Thunder-wrecking incubus
occur without them.

Yet I see the golden browed Aphrodite comes|

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|First to those|
wearing garlands, Warrior
and Pacifist alike ||

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Hands gentled
Youth returned, all with garlands
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My loves unspoiled ||universal

L. Fullington

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