In case you're wondering what on earth the text at the side says... here it is:
"This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin"
taken from this poem...
"Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne. Equal to the gods seems to me that man who sits facing you and hears you nearby sweetly speaking and softly laughing.
This sets my heart to fluttering in my breast, for when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a cold sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over, and I am paler than grass, and I feel that I am near to death.
The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.
I loved you once long ago, Athis you seemed to me a small, ungainly child.
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite.
As an apple reddens on the high bough; high atop the highest bough the apple pickers passed it by no, not passed it by, but they could not reach it.
Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn's light dispersed: you herd sheep herd goats herd children home to their mothers.
How vast a memory has Love!
Sappho to Phaon [1712], l. 52"
it was written by this woman:
"The most famous woman poet of all time, known for her lyrics, Sappho was born c.630 BC at Eressos on the Greek island of Lesbos.
About her life there is much anecdote, little fact.
She was married and had a daughter and sometime between 604 and 595 suffered exile in Sicily. Of her nine books of poems only fragments remain, some recently discovered on Egyptian papyri.
Celebrated for her marriage songs (epithalamia), she also wrote hymns, mythological poems, and personal poems of love. Of the last, most are addressed to women, possibly members of a literary circle with strong emotional attachments.
Several poems invoking Aphrodite suggest that they may have shared some cult or ceremonial practices. Famous in ancient times for her depiction of passion, Sappho delights in sensuous images of flowers, the moon, the sea, and the night.
Her style is straightforward, delicate, melodious, graceful, and witty. The Roman poet Catullus imitated her, and Ovid depicted her legendary love for Phaon in his Heroides."
Crimson Bisque
Seconded by her friends
Hooked after a few blogs
Doomed to express herself
every now and then
Crimson: red
Bisque: White unglazed porcelein
Crimson bisque:
A little rough around the edges,
rather fragile and stained red by the
change Jesus death and his blood
has brought about in my life
