Something Newsworthy!



Like a new-born babe
Is a Fed-Ex delivery
Sent home for gazing.

About this poem

A New-born Baby and a Fed-Ex Delivery: Both are packages, shipment for tracking, with great expectation, cautiously handled, carefully examined , with much excitement, prayerfully joyful.

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Written on December 28, 2020

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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211

Quick analysis:

Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 64
Words 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

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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  • Dougla$Irishman
    I am told a 3 liner is called a haiku ! Poetry in miniature, how can it be ?
    Only reserved for the master poet ! Not me. Little things can mean a lot ! Write on and give us delight !.
    LikeReply2 years ago
  • Soulwriter
    Singular comparison :)
    LikeReply2 years ago

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