In Praise Of Woman Poem by Tom Billsborough
In Praise Of Woman
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If you be friend, stand facing me
And spread the grace within your eyes.
In my season, garlands I would weave
Of love for you. Come holy lyre.
Accompany me.
And thus did Sappho sing.
And she the first to bare her soul
In genuine poetry.
Some now in scraps, a line or two
Which scholars still deciper,
But her soprano resonates
As a catalyst for literature.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: poetess
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The first four lines are taken from three scraps of Sappho' work, which is still being deciphered from Egyptian Papyruses. She has been called many things, Gay, Bisexual even a Geisha type Courtesan.
To me she is a Free Spirit who inspired women to write, the likes of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Lizzie Barratt and Sylvia Plath.
To me she is a Free Spirit who inspired women to write, the likes of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Lizzie Barratt and Sylvia Plath.
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5/18/2024 1:25:06 PM # 1.0.0.1119
What beautiful writing here Tom...and a lovely read.....it flows with grace as you read along.....nicely done.
Thanks Annette. Sappho's poems are very inspirational. Sometimes I write in a stanza form named after her. It's very hard to do in English, as our beat tends to be on the second syllable, whereas in Greek it's quite often on the first syllable.