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Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a passion reading and writing poems.

  September 2021     6 hours ago

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Psyche as the Quelle of World Religion

Of mythopoetic origins, the source of all world religions is in the psyche. It is therefore entrusted with divine holiness and healing; and is of eternal oneness. Incarnated and exteriorized from its internal sanctuary, from its un-manifested...

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A Canopy of Race

“Woe is man that he must invent a canopy of race!”

Having the opposites resident within ourselves, we are at war perpetually with ourselves, projecting our inner battles outwardly onto others who must fight their own battles within their inner...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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O Liberty Enlightening the World!

O icon of “Liberty Enlightening the World” in New York’s harbor!

Lady Liberty, your torch in your right hand, uplifts us all towards the heavens.

A beacon of light you are, to release the entire world from darkness.

Designated as a...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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A Parody on the 2024 US Presidential Race

Who indeed would ever imagine it.
Trump as candidate is much bidden.
And Biden as the chosen is trumped.

This is poetry ‘bout the fit.
Naught to stage viewers is hidden.
Especially if Biden were dumped.

Whether or not he should sit.
For...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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A War For Our Mind

We live in today’s world of disinformation.
We are dissed to the left, dissed to the right, and dissed to the center.

We live in a world of some really bad actors.
They have their Shakespearean-like entrances and exits.

And in their acts of...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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All of humanity is umbilically tied to the psyche.

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Thank you, jn.selvadurai, for your sentiments. Greatly appreciated.

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Amen. This poem expresses adroitly a rare bit coinage of the priceless power of thinkers, believers and dreamers.

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Thank you, jerryl.01657, for your emphatic response; greatly appreciated.

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Thank you all for your insightful comments. In every circumstances of our lives, all of us are eternally aligned with the planets. Indeed, the divine elements would have it no other way.

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Thank you both, janicem.43112 and talygarza, for your candid responses. The Holy Bible, not mincing words, puts it poetically this way: “There are none so blind as those who, having ears, do not hear, and who, having eyes, do not see.” Much appreciated . 

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Humanity urgently needs to shift its existential paradigm from one of a cultural clash of civilizations to that of a celebration of a more global universal understanding and acceptance of what binds us all together as a living species of Earth. 

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Great question. Traveling to “The Big Apple” of New York from the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C., as a foreign student in 1963, at the height and in the aftermath of the civil rights struggles and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I was overwhelmed at the dramatic contrast I witnessed between the oppression of so many Americans and foreigners on the one hand and, at the same time, the long enduring struggles, internally and externally, even internationally, for freedom and the reign of democracy. The Statue of Liberty anchored for me that indelible human thirst for freedom. 

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Thank you, kali_p, for your supporting comments concerning the contents of this poem that was written and posted on line in 2022, two years before the currently occurring political events in the United States of America. 

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Thank you, jackg.26131, for your positive comment.

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Thank you, Ruth. In the end, we’re all beholden to the divine process.

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Powerful opening lines. All poets are subjects of the Grecian muses nine.

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Geschrieben im Jahre 2022

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A haunting poem that begs for help and for healing. May the writer and the writer’s spirit be blessed, along with all others who have experienced abuse. May the peace be with you all.

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Man proposes and God disposes.

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