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The Dictum of Life

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Haiku
Remember in life.
Everything turned to ashes.
And as dust to dust.

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Life’s Formal Pronouncement: “Like dust in the wind,/ Once thick and then thinned,/ Life, behaving as fiend,/ Is never fully weaned/ Remains ever livestream,/ Like a chimerical dream.”

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Written on January 12, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 12, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on June 23, 2022

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Scheme ABC
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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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  • Dougla$Irishman
    Dougla$Irishman
    From dust to dust, whether burial or cremation but our journey still continues, our soul lives on charting new ventures and then you will live forever !
    LikeReply2 years ago

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