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Gravity’s Attraction!

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Haiku
What would Time be like
without her partner named Space?
Bereft of movement!

About this poem

Just imagine it: The coupling of Space and Time is what gives us all security.

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Written on January 08, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 76
Words 14
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 1995 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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