The Eternal Striving For Concord Out of Discord
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Seeking exposure.
Naked truth needs no clothing.
Is always blameless.
Ask Eve and Adam.
The cost of Forbidden Fruit:
The poisoned apple!
Fig leaves are dressings.
The price of eating apples.
Bearing loincloths.
A gift of Eden.
Children are fig-leaved apples.
A couples coupling.
Apples of discord.
Become with cultural blessings.
Apples of one’s eyes.
What was once discord.
Irony of ironies.
Is turned to concord.
About this poem
The creation myth of the tale of Adam and Eve is borne out of an agricultural society of several thousand years ago, where the Hebrew-Aramaic word “ha-adam” translates in English roughly as “Man” or “Mankind,” and the Hebrew-Aramaic word “havvah” (“Eve” in English) can be interpreted as “life,” as “living” or as “enlivening,” suggesting together that the story of Adam and Eve, collectively, is a classical story of the imperfect and flawed (sinful?) life of humanity on earth, eternally seeking, pursuing, and striving to attain and maintain concord out of discord through an unending ethical and moralistic global process involving stages of human social and cultural development that is broadly known as “civilizations. ” Humankind is forever striving to become whole or self-fulfilled (in Jungian terms, to become individuated). more »
Written on January 30, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 30, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on September 24, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 88 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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