The Creative Spark
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
You’ve often heard it said,
in bold Socratic dialogue;
Plato’s Republic notwithstanding,
proverbially announced:
“Necessity is the mother
of invention.”
Nay, I declare,
proverbially and aphoristically:
“Creativity is the mother
of invention.
Once the creativity
is there,
the necessity,
by sheer necessity;
of the creative spark,
will, indubitably, arise.”
About this poem
This poem was written in 1960, when the poet was a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C. A thoughtful mercurial introvert, he thrived more within the inner world of dreams and fantasies, than on earthly barren plains, the habitat , it seemed to him, of grounded learned folk. As a poet of the inner transitory world, a dweller of forbidden realms, his observation is that ever incubating in the collective psyche of the world, is Imagination, triggered by the impulse of archetypal energies, raw and primitive as the honeycomb of forest bees that, when harvested, surfaces from her native residence, from hidden chthonic places and, upon awakening from her latent sleep, like the immortal phoenix’s rising, manifests herself to outer world, transmogrified, now glorified with the eponymous name, Necessity. This poem, The Creative Spark, is borne out of that perspective, the psychological perspective depicting movement from the latent to the manifest, from the primary to the secondary. more »
Written on May 09, 1960
Submitted by karlcfolkes on September 27, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on November 05, 2022
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xxxx aBcx aBdc ddxx |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 373 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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