Not my best attempt but fragment 4 to kick off 2024! Please, if you have a better idea, join the challenge! It's fun 😊💜

I just completed fragment 127 off the cuff as I'm still wallowing in heartbreak themes at the moment. Which fragment would you like to see me/would you like to try with me to complete next? Let me know 💜💔👇 # Sapphic Speeches # Sappho Fragments # Poetry Community

I wrote this one yesterday straight from the heart. Not an official fragment contribution, but I think Sappho would approve of a poem written from raw heartache, don't you? 💔 P.S. there's a labyrinth reference, so that's Greek enough, right?

Sappho Fragment 36: 'I Long and seek after' My addition: 'Less pain Less heartbreak Less Fear Less Imprisonment Less jealousy Less hatred Less war Less arrogance Less self loathing But don't they sometimes say, "LESS IS MORE." :('

Have a merry Sapphic Christmas... featuring remnant cherry blossoms on otherwise barren trees today in my town. How beautiful - especially outside of Cherry Court. May the gods bless you all 💜🌸🎄🥳

Good night to all my Sappho sauvants and Sapphic seekers. As one chandelier is switched off, another is turned on. Day to night. Night to Day. As it has been since this planet was formed, long before Sappho, you and I existed. Merry Christmas eve eve. Catch you all tomorrow 🎄🥳💜🌟💫😊😘

Tacitus provides a secular account of the origins of Christianity: ‘Nero ... inflicted tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus ... suffered the extreme penalty ... at the hands of ... Pontius Pilate’ — Annals 15.44. 🏺Ancientbluesky

I've changed my picture to my real self so that people don't think I am a robot. However, I'll post the previous profile picture here as it's a drawing from when I was in psychosis and it's really honest in my view of what being Sapphic is: Raw. Vulnerable. In love.

20 years! Congratulations! I hope to finally send off my form to become a member in this coming year! 😊🔥

Lest I forget, "MERRY CHIASMUS, CHIASMUS MERRY" to all of you! Even to you, Brutus/Scrooges out there 😉🎄🌟💜

After I composed this one and realised it was Fragment 123, I renamed the poem to "1, 2, 3... WAKE UP!" It's a phrase I was repeating a lot in my darkest moments. The sky is eerily grey today but the birds are singing, giving me hope that today is not lost. 1/n

Can someone lovingly explain to me how this app and Twitter work differently? Love from Sappho @ confused.com

On the morning of Monday 18 December, I reflected a little upon the idea of different loves getting mixed up: romantic, sexual and platonic. I wrote in Aphrodite's voice since the line states that Eros is a "servant". But could I have written in another persona? Let me know your thoughts :)

Up next is a slightly different post. A scholar of Sappho kindly corrected the grammar of a Latin poem I composed over 4 years ago after a trip to the National Gallery. It felt right to share it on here as it contains Sapphic/elegiac themes. P.S. "grava" should be "gravis!" 1/n

My next exercise was at c. 2.30pm on Sunday 17 December. It's a prose composition inspired by fragment 106.

Next Sapphic fragment that needs translating into Ancient Greek or any other language! Does anyone want to help me translate the English into something? Maybe even into a drawing? Whatever floats people's boats.....

When I'm not feeling very sapphic, I become more Penelope-esque and crochet. I'm currently working on a new hat and because I make mistakes, I will have to unravel this yarn again and again. But it's more about the journey - the Odyssey - at the end of the day, right? So here we go...

The next fragment I worked on = a copy & paste job! This is because a poem I had written over two years ago seemed to work perfectly as a continuation of sorts. (Ignore the left hand side for now, Armand took up the challenge and will be translating my poem into Greek!) #SapphicSpeeches

Hi everyone, Helena here! Using Anne Carson's copy of "Fragments of Sappho", I am starting a project of filling in the gaps of Sappho's poetry/speeches/words, which I hope many of you will enjoy. I also invite anyone interested in doing the same! 1/n