Analysis of We Are All Aborigines



Often, at nighttime,
I enter Jukurrpa world.
The world of dreaming.
Dreamers’ native residence;
Eternal — uncreated.

Like world of Tao,
It appears as ‘un-carved block.’
Unsullied nature.
Its complexity hidden
In simplicity of form.

This world of dreaming,
Without circumference
That can ever be measured,
Encompasses existence:
The Past, Present — and Future.

When we are awake,
Is when we tend to forget
We are all dreamers.
Dreaming that we are awake;
Yet asleep — and still dreaming.

We are dream weavers.
Weaving dreams of dream weavers.
Dreams called ‘Existence.’
Crafted by Jukurrpa world;
The world of ancient spirits.

With ancient atoms,
We are aborigines.
A tribal people.
Distanced — and separated;
Divided by foreign tongues.

Our seed has been spread
To inhabit everywhere.
Each parcel of land.
We are in every faces;
Those ‘foreign’ — and ‘domestic,’

Let us not forget
We are brothers and sisters.
Spirit reminds us;
To look deep within ourselves.
Where we are all sealed — as One.

We are shapeshifters.
Assuming many ‘races.’
Many outer forms.
Our outer skin is garment.
Within — we remain as One.

Jukurrpa informs:
The Spirit is container;
Container of All.
All spawned by Alcheringa;
Ancient Divine Protector.

We are all spawned by
Alcheringa Dreamtime.
Our ancient forebears
Guarding our ancestral myths.
And preserving our history.

We are one people.
We are all the same people.
Jukurrpa people
In every space of the world.
We are ab-Origines.

The ‘Great Everywhen,’
The Universal Spirit
In every atom;
Manifested globally,
Informs us — we are One.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011 11011 01110 1010100 0101 1111 1011111 01010 1010010 0010011 11110 01010 1110110 0100010 0110010 11101 1111101 11110 1011101 1010110 11110 1011110 11010 10111 0111010 11010 110100 01010 100100 0101101 101111 101010 11011 11010010 1100010 11101 1110010 10011 11101001 1111111 111 0101010 10101 10101110 0110111 101 0101010 01011 1111 1001010 11111 11 10101 10100101 001010100 11110 1110110 110 01001101 1111 011 001010 010010 100100 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,623
Words 326
Sentences 36
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 65
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

The Spirit as the Source within us, as the Holy mystical ‘Bereshit,’ is the container of the All. Maintaining and preserving within our skulls our ancient mammalian hind brain of myth making, we are all aborigines, all indigenous to Planet Earth. All of us, like Adam and Eve, come from the soil and, in the end, all return to the soil. In our outer, newer forebrain appearance of cognition, all of us outwardly display different mannerisms, different shades of culture, customs, languages and beliefs. Beneath our skin, our soul is protected by the same Universal Spirit that unceasingly reminds us that we, collectively as members of the human race, are of the same origin. The terms used in this poem, “Jukurrpa” and “Alcheringa,” refer to Australian Aboriginal expressions or concepts relating to ancient mythical beliefs concerning our governing by a collective archetypal Dreamtime described as “the eternal” or “the uncreated;” a concept that is akin to the Taoist concept of “Pu,” known otherwise as the primordial “un-carved block” in its purest state of existence. This tanka poem celebrates the common ancestral heritage of the human race. By the sacred water hole of Pikilyi Springs, there shall we, upon entering, dream dreams of Jukurrpa World; dream dreams of our universal oneness. 

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Written on December 16, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 16, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on August 12, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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