Cooling Down

Tags

Duc de Berry, Poitiers, scything, shearing, Tres Riches Heures

(Palace of Poitiers  Duc de Berry: Tres Riches Heures  RMN/ RG Ojeda)

 

No windows-

so we don’t have to

wear trousers.

Calendar Haikus on Trois Riches Heures

Tags

Dourdain, Duc de Berry, Etampes, haiku, Limbourgs, Lusignan, May Queen, Melusine, Old Louvre, Poitiers, Riom, Saumur, St Chapelle, Trois Riches Heures, Vincennes

The Limbourgs

welcomed by a steward

from the cold.

Opaque sky-

the wife warms her knees,

sheep now penned.

Lusignan…

Melusine-haunted.

Oxen plough.

Damosel,

you will ever be

Dourdain’s jewel.

Royal rider,

you meet The May Queen

from Riom.

St Chapelle:

in your shade fair maids

haymaking.

Scythe the corn

while Poitiers enjoys

a rare peace.

At Etampes,

lady falconers

take control.

At Saumur,

a peasant’s backside

mid-vendange.

Old Louvre,

your fields protected

from the birds.

A swineherd

shakes acorns after

the Duke’s death.

Vincennes’ keep,

where hounds savage boar:

Duke’s birthplace.