The Latent Made Manifest



If Life is a dream,
then death is Awakening;
darkness turned to Light.

About this poem

How ironic is the interplay of Life and Death. Where one begins, the other ends. Where one ends, makes space for the other’s beginning. This Senryu poem is reminiscent of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare’s enigmatic philosophical characters Próspero, Ariel, and Caliban in his 1610-1611 play, ‘The Tempest,’ with this perplexing, baffling, mystifying statement uttered: “When I waked, I cried to dream again.” Such is the poetic world of dreams.

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Written on November 05, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 05, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on December 07, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 15
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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3 Comments
  • brian.duffin
    A haiku of the highest order!
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • karlcfolkes
    You have a kind heart. Thank you.
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • teril
    Simply and eloquently said.
    LikeReply1 year ago

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