When you see this meme, post a poem on your LJ.

I cheated and used lots of pieces of poems, lacking one entire one to post.


Sappho, translated by Anne Carson

Fragment 5

O Kypris and Nereids, undamaged I pray you
grant my brother to arrive here.
And all that in his heart he wants to be,
make it be.

And all the wrong he did before, loose it.
Make him a joy to his friends,
a pain to his enemies and let there exist for us
not one single further sorrow.


Fragment 24A

you will remember
for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things


Fragment 36

I long and seek after


Fragment 47

Eros shook my
mind like a mountain wind falling on oak trees


Fragment 105A

as the sweetapple reddens on a high branch
high on the highest branch and the applepickers forgot--
no, not forgot: were unable to reach


Fragment 118

yes! radiant lyre speak to me
become a voice


Fragment 130

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me--
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in


Fragment 138

stand to face me beloved
and open out the grace of your eyes


Fragment 162

with what eyes?