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Grave Epitaph

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Haiku
Blowing in the Wind —
A corpus turned to ashes…
Life is vaporous!

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Life Encapsulated: Like bees at early morning, pursuing their nectar, converted at afternoon to deliciously sweet honey, fermented mead savored; and silent at sunset, not now ever buzzing, life is like a honeycomb that is built to be consumed.

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Written on December 23, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 69
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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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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