Sappho Does Hay(na)ku: Advice for a Girl

Sappho Does Hay(na)ku

Advice for a Girl

Adorn
your hair
yellower than fire

with two white
flowers, nothing
more.

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Contents

  1 - Aphrodite of the Flowers at Knossos
  2 - Philosophy
  3 - Beautiful Women . . .
  4 - Arrows of Eros
  5 - Dear Hera
  6 - No Harbor
  7 - Promise
  8 - Invitation
  9 - Mighty Aphrodite
10 - Eros, Come On,
11 - Miss Scarlet
12 - Rash
13 - Chaste Artemis
14 - Hesperos
15 - Theme
16 - Nightingale
17 - Enough
18 - Two Doves
19 - Dawn
20 - Advice for a Girl
21 - To a Young Love
22 - Nice View
23 - Virgin I
24 - Virgin II
25 - Lament
26 - Chamber Peeking
27 - Moon Honey Night
28 - End of the Night
29 - By Myself
30 - Emptiness
31 - Love Gusts
32 - Morning Wood
33 - To Eros
34 - Waiting Long
35 - Love
36 - What To Do?
37 - Oh
38 - On Earth
39 - In Truth
40 - Choosing
41 - Handsome Guy
42 - To a Charmer
43 - Flirting
44 - Peek-a-Boo
45 - Reunion
46 - Fury
47 - The Ring
48 - Head's Up
49 - Poor Girl
50 - Andromeda
51 - Parting Gift
52 - Hurt
53 - Lyric for Lesbos
54 - Graces, Muses
55 - Strangers in the Night
56 - The Swallow
57 - A Column of Good Things
58 - Some Gift
59 - Sandal
60 - Garment
61 - Vision
62 - Entering the Black of Sleep
63 - Dialogue
64 - Sleep
65 - Good Morning
66 - Tainted Love
67 - Old Pro
68 - Re: the Gods
69 - Grief Counselor
70 - Old Age
71 - The World Does Not End
72 - Hermes and the Dark River
73 - Youth of Today
74 - Appreciation
75 - On Beauty and Age
76 - Sweet Girl
77 - Desire and Sun

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Scott Keeney: My poems have appeared in six books (most recently, Wahoo Sunset, 2019) and in journals such as Court Green, Failbetter, Mudlark, and New York Quarterly.

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