Hi Garry, This is actually a senyru, written after a visit to Lisbon where I hobbled across the cobblestones to various historic sites. Not meant to be apocalyptic at all!
This immediately suggested German folklore to me, Lesley – perhaps the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Then I read your comment and it made me smile, as I imagined a tourist with sore feet hobbling round a city on a guided tour! :)
—LESLEY ANNE SWANSON
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Ah yes, history, and cobblestones, and so many people have been hobbling. If there was technology to release the reverberations of history across common paths trod for centuries…
I can relate to this one from a personal point of view so well. I've hobbled through many ancient places in pursuit of historical knowledge with an aging body and feet. So well written, Lesley.
November 3rd, 2016 at 9:52 am
I am an awe of the latest batch of haikus.
November 3rd, 2016 at 10:34 am
It's hard to visualize ''history,'' though I can see this as an apocalyptic comment on the feeble state of man's current tenure on earth.
November 3rd, 2016 at 11:29 am
Hi Garry, This is actually a senyru, written after a visit to Lisbon where I hobbled across the cobblestones to various historic sites. Not meant to be apocalyptic at all!
November 3rd, 2016 at 1:03 pm
I visualized history as a community elder, moving down the street of her birth, a keeper of living history. Very nice!
November 3rd, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Terrific encapsulation of how transportive moving through ancient physical landscapes can be.
November 7th, 2016 at 3:55 pm
This immediately suggested German folklore to me, Lesley – perhaps the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Then I read your comment and it made me smile, as I imagined a tourist with sore feet hobbling round a city on a guided tour! :)
marion
November 15th, 2016 at 10:40 am
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history hobbling across the cobblestones
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Ah yes, history, and cobblestones, and so many people have been hobbling. If there was technology to release the reverberations of history across common paths trod for centuries…
warm regards,
Alan
November 28th, 2016 at 9:26 am
I can relate to this one from a personal point of view so well. I've hobbled through many ancient places in pursuit of historical knowledge with an aging body and feet. So well written, Lesley.
April 11th, 2017 at 9:34 am
Terrific encapsulation of how transportive moving through ancient physical landscapes can be.