KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

CONTEXT IS OMNIPOTENCE.

 

JOHN THE OBSCURE ™

By John Ruch

© 2010

 

Clumsy Haikus on the Night of Belatedly Realizing a Painful Truth

 

 

They must have clung

to this debris through waves

On the sand their footprints part

 

 

Eating an apple, knowing

that far away in the dark

a dog is happy being walked

 

 

Learning a new language

written on the window

of a warm room with no clock

 

 

Arm in arm on a bridge

before a dark city

What did they find there?

 

 

Posted March 8, 2010.

 

 

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