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Strangers in Our Own Universe — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The riddle of life: Pictures and their negatives. Both linked together. One clear, unlike the other: A person and his shadow. The riddle of life: ...	484 views Rate it
Fruit of the Tree Yields Fruit of the Womb — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Apple is a fruit. Fruit requires laboring. The Fruit of the...	481 views Rate it
Soldier — Steve Dupere	Redemption comes and goes for the broken, A life we lived of wounds unspoken. We’ve spilled our blood for another man’s glory. Now we live to tell our...	479 views Rate it
A Child's Prayer — Margaret Betham-Edwards	God, make my life a little light Within the world to glow; A little flame that burneth bright Wherever I may...	475 views Rate it
A Government House Divided — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A House divided Is what America is Government ruling By partisan politics “House divided cannot...	474 views Rate it
Why Choose to Die When You Can Fly — Cristina Kim	Why choose to die when you can fly? Little bird, try and spread your wings across the sky. Because after you’ve tried and there’s no one to guide, ...	473 views Rate it
On Lake Inle, in Shan State, Myanmar — Karl Constantine FOLKES	On the inlet of Lake Inle, in a small motorboat, in Nyaungshwe Township. There — on a freshwater lake, in lovely Shan State, nested in magestic Shan...	469 views Rate it
A Woman Ribbed — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Ah, borne from man’s ribs. Woman — preemptively scorned. O daunting the pain! Man — dominating… A woman second fiddle. Nature offended! Ribbing...	461 views Rate it
The Human Condition: A Fractured Soul — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Human nature screened: Inherent rascality! So says Dr....	457 views Rate it
Africa in Tears — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The people mourning. Their ancient art are removed. Robbed, stolen, and gone. Gone from Mother Africa. To European countries. Gone from Africa. To...	454 views Rate it
A Road Less Traveled — Seth Haynes Warner	There was a time, It was many years ago, I found myself hitchhiking, Down a lonesome, barren road. This long desert highway, Was so desolate in...	454 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	453 views Rate it
One Drop — Gisela Vigil	Like an eerie peacefulness riding on the skirt of turbulence within the eye of a storm, there is a lull that goes unnoticed. I hear it as I stand...	451 views Rate it
Grave Epitaph — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Blowing in the Wind — A corpus turned to ashes… Life is...	441 views Rate it
The Semiotics of Markedness — Karl Constantine FOLKES	In linguistics class. I learned this some years ago. Thing called “Markedness.” Sign of Signified. Coined by Roman Jakobson. Semiotician. The...	440 views Rate it
Through a Nation’s Looking Glass — Karl Constantine FOLKES	With public officials frequently on trial. The Republic is admittedly livid. So ambitiously unethically daring. Deceptions are “righteously”...	439 views Rate it
Eons of Nowness (EON) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Time is relative At the north and the south poles Eyed by the viewer It’s observer-dependent In a global universe. It can be zero Or any other...	436 views Rate it
Waka Poetry Chiming — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Voices chanting sutras, Hymnic lyrical sutras. Other voices weaving, Weaving Kama sutras. Cherry blossoms ripening, Youthful eyes — delighting. ...	435 views Rate it
Man’s Subjective Mind — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Is “Nothing” zero? Some ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Astrophysicist. Whether there is a nexus Of science and religion. Tyson denies this. “Objective...	432 views Rate it
Time Spawned by Eternity — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Time so temporal. Eternity a measure. As a unity. Time so illusive. Let us now consider time. Time so relative. Time as a measure. Measuring...	430 views Rate it
"Women work" — Maya Angelou	I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed ...	430 views Rate it
Bird Of Paradise Sonnet — Marie Helen Abramyan	Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty sheaves, My spirit flies...	426 views Rate it
Reading Research Limitations — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Phonological. Language processing schema. Is far from “Reading.” Without semantic input — Deep structures...	426 views Rate it
The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Putin and Hitler. Two European warlords. Birds of same feathers. Waging dangerous warfare. One checked, the other unchecked. Hitler and Putin. ...	423 views Rate it
Wisdom of TAO Te Ching — Karl Constantine FOLKES	THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.” Use of languages, a lexicon artifact, with syntactic rules, ...	416 views Rate it