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Senryu Satire

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

Free verse
So much that waxes
from a tongue not sober, is
but idle prattle.

The tongue is a sword.
So wield it with much caution.
Or rather shield it.

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Moral Turpitude: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging…”

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Written on January 27, 2024

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 27, 2024

Modified by karlcfolkes on January 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 140
Words 32
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 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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  • karlcfolkes
    karlcfolkes
    Thank you, Susan. See my additional lines to the poem.
    LikeReply3 months ago
  • susan.brumel
    susan.brumel
    So true.
    LikeReply3 months ago

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