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Our Choice Makes All the Difference

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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To be, or not to be,
That is not the question.
Life offers us no choices.
To become, or not to become,
Our choice makes all the difference.

About this poem

We were born, not by our own choice, but by destiny’s. In spite of Hamlet’s dark soliloquy, the truth is much more temperate and sober, Shakespeare notwithstanding. We become what ultimately we become, by our own proclivities and predispositions. We make our own destiny by our own choices.

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Written on February 07, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 07, 2023

Modified by karlcfolkes on February 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 139
Words 32
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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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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  • Teril
    Teril
    Nicely said. We hold the becoming in our own hands, repeatedly overwhelmed and amazed.
    LikeReply1 year ago

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