Happy Valentines Day

[redorchard13]

In the spring twilight
the full moon is shining.
Girls take their places
as though around an altar.

And their feet move

Rhythmically, as tender
feet of Cretan girls
danced once around an

altar of love, crushing
a circle in the soft
smooth flowering grass.

Awed by her splendor,

Stars near the lovely
moon cover their own
bright faces
when she
is roundest and lights
Earth with her silver.

Now, while we dance

Come here to us
gentle Gaiety,
Revelry, Radiance

and you, Muses
with lovely hair.

~Sappho