Countryside Church Haiku Poem by Chen-ou Liu

Countryside Church Haiku



countryside church
an old clock measuring
the silence

Chen-ou Liu
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: old,haiku,silence,time
poem poems silence Old haiku
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Denis Mair 28 July 2017

Maybe the clock is inside the church, which is where you found the special silence which is beyond the measuring. The house of god usually marks time with bells that toll our passage out of this world.

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Doug Lewis 27 July 2017

I like this poem, but do churches have clocks or is God timeless?

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