The Paddock Review

Water Song for Sappho

 

 

Become my voice.

 

         lyrics 

Your          rode                    currents 

                        memory

 

then 

         settled 

                     in the pith 

                                       of green 

 

papyrus sprung 

                           from river waters 

                                                         of your island home

                                    flowing into

            my inner well. 

 

I dive 

            for

                  missing pieces.

….

This poem is from the book Sappho Prompts by Margaret Lee (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/sappho-prompts-by-margaret-lee/

Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. She finds poems in the Oklahoma woodlands and prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret’s previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press include Someone Else’s Earth (2021), Sagebrush Songs (2022), Oklahoma Summer (2023) and Orange Persphone (2025.) Her poems have also appeared in From Behind the Mask, (Paperback-Press 2020), Echoes of Tradition: Indigenous Orientation to Community, Time, and Land (Tulsa NightWriters 2024), The Atlanta Review and Pangyrus. Her academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world.