MONDAY TRAVELS: LILIES by Sappho

Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we are one more embarking on a journey!

So today we are in Greece and we will explore:

LILIES

Greek poet Sappho: 

Sappho (630 – c. 570 BC) was an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung and accompanied by a lyre. Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem – the "Ode to Aphrodite". As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry. Three epigrams attributed to Sappho are extant, but these are actually Hellenistic imitations of Sappho's style.

Poem:

Lilies 
(For those with a broken heart, a journey in five parts)
I.
O lover, with your skin so white
The purest alabaster
Delicate as the whitest lily that
Only opens its petals at night

II.
Come to me, my love
Across fields full of lilies at night
The stars shining overhead
Are witnesses to our love
As bright as the sky.

III.
O, the heart wants what it wants,
Imagining its perfect mate.
Alas, it cannot be so
Yesterday's heart has lost its mate.

So imagine the new one
With the trepidation that replaces the longing for what was
With what is.
The lonely crying—
the mourning doves never sounded so sad!

IV.
But know that the heart wants to love
And a new love will blossom
Filling that void with its rapturous beauty.

V.
Come to me, my love
Across fields full of lilies
And all looks new tonight.

Thoughts:

I'll just leave you this wonderful love poem here, for you to enjoy and gush for a while!

See you next Monday!