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* *When you are alone in the woods Waldeinsmkeit describes the feeling of solitude in nature. Poetry| Haiku | German

German is a fascinating language. I took a couple of years in high school. A lot of words are compound words and this is one of them: wald” meaning forest, and “einsamkeit” meaning loneliness or solitude.

This haiku is one of a series about words that don’t directly translate into English.

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