#sappho — Public Fediverse posts

"Please Abánthis, your Sappho calls you:
won’t you take your Lydian lyre and play
another song to Góngyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings
for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses’
clinging makes you shake when you see it"
#Sappho 22

If you would like to know more about Sappho, whose name and home on Lesbos became synonymous with women loving women, read on here:

https://eroticmythology.com/artist-spotlight-the-life-and-works-of-sappho/

3/?

"Please Abánthis, your Sappho calls you:
won’t you take your Lydian lyre and play
another song to Góngyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings
for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses’
clinging makes you shake when you see it"
#Sappho 22

If you would like to know more about Sappho, whose name and home on Lesbos became synonymous with women loving women, read on here:

https://eroticmythology.com/artist-spotlight-the-life-and-works-of-sappho/

3/?

"Please Abánthis, your Sappho calls you:
won’t you take your Lydian lyre and play
another song to Góngyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings
for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses’
clinging makes you shake when you see it"
#Sappho 22

If you would like to know more about Sappho, whose name and home on Lesbos became synonymous with women loving women, read on here:

https://eroticmythology.com/artist-spotlight-the-life-and-works-of-sappho/

3/?

"Please Abánthis, your Sappho calls you:
won’t you take your Lydian lyre and play
another song to Góngyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings
for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses’
clinging makes you shake when you see it"
#Sappho 22

If you would like to know more about Sappho, whose name and home on Lesbos became synonymous with women loving women, read on here:

https://eroticmythology.com/artist-spotlight-the-life-and-works-of-sappho/

3/?

"Please Abánthis, your Sappho calls you:
won’t you take your Lydian lyre and play
another song to Góngyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings
for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses’
clinging makes you shake when you see it"
#Sappho 22

If you would like to know more about Sappho, whose name and home on Lesbos became synonymous with women loving women, read on here:

https://eroticmythology.com/artist-spotlight-the-life-and-works-of-sappho/

3/?

Today's poem:

[I seek and desire]
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#sappho #love #desire #poetry #separation #longing

Today's poem:

[I seek and desire]
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#sappho #love #desire #poetry #separation #longing

Today's poem:

[I seek and desire]
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#sappho #love #desire #poetry #separation #longing

Today's poem:

I seek and desire
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#Sappho #poetry #desire #journey #drive #impetus

Today's poem:

I seek and desire
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#Sappho #poetry #desire #journey #drive #impetus

Today's poem:

I seek and desire
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#Sappho #poetry #desire #journey #drive #impetus

Today's poem:

I seek and desire
- by Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman

I seek and desire,
Even as the wind
That travels the plain
And stirs in the bloom
Of the apple-tree.

I wander through life,
With the searching mind
That is never at rest,
Till I reach the shade
Of my lover’s door.

#Sappho #poetry #desire #journey #drive #impetus

A Love Letter to the Beating Heart

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/heart-romance-health-organ.html

Over on Insta, there’s this lovely rainbowy" art challenge called "Hue Years Resolution". Since it’s the first time in ages I’ve actually made something creative again I wanted to share it here too. I participated with "hidden poems" also known as "Blackout poetry". In German I named them "Versteckte Verse". Annnnnyhow, here goes the first one in red:

"Sappho
sighed
and
began to
like
more Sapphos. She invented
sighing."

(1/6)

#MastoArt #HueYearsResolution #VerstVers #BlackoutPoetry #Sappho

Over on Insta, there’s this lovely rainbowy" art challenge called "Hue Years Resolution". Since it’s the first time in ages I’ve actually made something creative again I wanted to share it here too. I participated with "hidden poems" also known as "Blackout poetry". In German I named them "Versteckte Verse". Annnnnyhow, here goes the first one in red:

"Sappho
sighed
and
began to
like
more Sapphos. She invented
sighing."

(1/6)

#MastoArt #HueYearsResolution #VerstVers #BlackoutPoetry #Sappho

I got a new book to read.
#History #Book #Poetry #Sappho #Sapphic #LGBT #Greek #GreekPoetry #Poems #GreekPoems #Lesbos

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112803950724294958

Will #Sappho be banned next?!!

#AncientWomen #Censorship #AncientPhilsophers #AncientGreece #GBLTQHistory

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

Ancient Greek Lyrics by Willis Barnstone, 2009

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th century BCE, through Pindar and the other great singers of the classical age, down to the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.

#books
#fiction
#poetry
#AncientGreece
#Sappho

"Sappho" fresco/Portrait of a Young Woman with Stylus, 50 - 79 CE, Pompeii

The "Sappho" fresco is a 1st-century AD painting from Pompeii depicting a young woman holding a writing tablet and stylus, symbols of literacy and education in Roman society. Though 19th-century scholars speculated it portrayed the Greek poet Sappho, modern scholars believe it’s simply an upper-class Pompeiian woman. Discovered in 1760, the fresco is now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples and notably inspired Chinese poet Shao Xunmei to take up poetry after he saw it in the early 1920s.

Today's poem:

Ode To Aphrodite
- by Sappho

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/799567864674828288/ode-to-aphrodite?source=share

#sappho #poetry #love #plea #prayer #aphrodite

Today's poem:

Ode To Aphrodite
- by Sappho

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/799567864674828288/ode-to-aphrodite?source=share

#sappho #poetry #love #plea #prayer #aphrodite

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna, Roman marble head, circa 1st - early 2nd century CE

#antiquidons #history #DayOfSelene #MoonMonday #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Selene

Camp Polari-Babes by the Sea - 05 Sep feat. Sappho, C Powers, Carly Barton

#SESH #Sappho #CPowers #CarlyBarton

https://sesh.sx/events/12223252

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"With flowery perfumes
precious, queenly
you anointed yourself
and on beds of soft luxury
you would satisfy all your longing
for that tender girl"
#Sappho 94

🏛 #Aphrodite reclining, 2nd century CE, The Jordan Museum, Amman, #Jordan

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth #sapphic

If you ask me about the love of my life, I won’t just tell you I love her.

I’ll tell you she’s the one who stayed when my world was unraveling. When everything felt broken inside me, she didn’t turn away. She sat beside me in the silence, when I had no words left. She held me through pain she didn’t cause and never made me feel like I was a burden.

She saw the real me. The me sobbing on the bathroom floor. The me drowning in emotions too big to name. Cont. ⬇️

#LGBTQ #lesbian #sappho #femme

If you ask me about the love of my life, I won’t just tell you I love her.

I’ll tell you she’s the one who stayed when my world was unraveling. When everything felt broken inside me, she didn’t turn away. She sat beside me in the silence, when I had no words left. She held me through pain she didn’t cause and never made me feel like I was a burden.

She saw the real me. The me sobbing on the bathroom floor. The me drowning in emotions too big to name. Cont. ⬇️

#LGBTQ #lesbian #sappho #femme

If you ask me about the love of my life, I won’t just tell you I love her.

I’ll tell you she’s the one who stayed when my world was unraveling. When everything felt broken inside me, she didn’t turn away. She sat beside me in the silence, when I had no words left. She held me through pain she didn’t cause and never made me feel like I was a burden.

She saw the real me. The me sobbing on the bathroom floor. The me drowning in emotions too big to name. Cont. ⬇️

#LGBTQ #lesbian #sappho #femme

If you ask me about the love of my life, I won’t just tell you I love her.

I’ll tell you she’s the one who stayed when my world was unraveling. When everything felt broken inside me, she didn’t turn away. She sat beside me in the silence, when I had no words left. She held me through pain she didn’t cause and never made me feel like I was a burden.

She saw the real me. The me sobbing on the bathroom floor. The me drowning in emotions too big to name. Cont. ⬇️

#LGBTQ #lesbian #sappho #femme

If you ask me about the love of my life, I won’t just tell you I love her.

I’ll tell you she’s the one who stayed when my world was unraveling. When everything felt broken inside me, she didn’t turn away. She sat beside me in the silence, when I had no words left. She held me through pain she didn’t cause and never made me feel like I was a burden.

She saw the real me. The me sobbing on the bathroom floor. The me drowning in emotions too big to name. Cont. ⬇️

#LGBTQ #lesbian #sappho #femme

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"Who, Sappho, is doing you wrong?
For if she flees, soon she will pursue you
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them
and if she doesn't love you, soon she will
even if she doesn't wish to."
[...]
"Whatever my heart desires to happen,
make it happen. And you [#Aphrodite]
be my comrade-in-arms."
#Sappho 1

🎨 Arja, one of my illustrators
https://eroticmythology.com/tag/arja?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@antiquidons @mythology
#DayOfAphrodite #PrideMonth