Seeking Enlightenment Poem by Douglas Scotney
Seeking Enlightenment
Les Lumières, The Lighting Up,
The Turning On, Les Allumers,
The Age of Light
are French and English
for The Enlightenment.
German is Die Aufklärung, The Clearing Up;
and Clarity, Die Klarheit.
Scharf is ‘sharp' and Herrschaft is ‘reign'.
Mit Wortkonstruktionsgeshick,
with word construction craft,
you could call it The Reign of the Sharp:
call Die Klarheit Die Scharfeherrschaft.
Goethe - 1749-1832. German Aufklarung figure.
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