Our Racial Oneness

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)



There is but one God.
Universal Energy.
The Lord Almighty.
To which all nations bow down.
Beyond human differences.

There is but one race.
Universally expressed.
The race of mankind.
Seen as many, yet as one.
Beyond surface differences.

Evil separates.
Rebukes the universal.
Seeks to be mighty.
Would divide and conquer us.
Despite our human oneness.

Don’t be fooled, pal.
To speak of “Other Races.”
God made only one.
With various shades of color.
Like him — known by many names.

Return to oneness.
To universal kindness.
See all as equal.
Don’t fall prey to division.
That is not God’s desire.

The view from outside.
The site of all temptations.
Corrupts all vision.
From what is inner oneness.
Where there is no division.

Return to oneness.
Where race is only mythic.
Human invention.
To separate all peoples.
The craft and ploy of hatred.

There is but one race.
Universally expressed.
The race of mankind.
Seen as many, yet as one.
Beyond surface differences.

About this poem

Despite God’s oneness and our racial oneness, made in the image and likeness of God, we fall prey to evil, deceit, and divisiveness, thereby losing our common dignity, our innate strength, and our ethics and morality, that are restored in human unity.

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Written on April 29, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 29, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on April 29, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xaaxb CDEFB xgahh xxfix Hhgfi xxfhf Hxfxx CDEFB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 983
Words 210
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

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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