Old stories
I recall his face:
But his stories? As mist gone,
They are heard no more.
Haiku, In Memoriam Eleanor of Aquitaine
Remembering Bleheris, Bordeaux 1130s
Preferring love to marriage
Héloïse declares,
Preferring “Love to marriage,
Liberty to chains.”
Haiku, In Memoriam Eleanor of Aquitaine
The Paris years