Seda

“As sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields.”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I simply want to be dead.
Weeping she left me

with many tears and said this:
Oh how badly things have turned out for us.
Sappho, I swear, against my will I leave you.

And I answered her:
Rejoice, go and
remember me. For you know how we cherished you.”
― Sappho , If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“With him they buried the muzzle his
teeth had kissed, And truthfully wrote
the Mother, Tim died smiling.”
― Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen