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The Illusory Nature of the Inner World

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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SELF at rest.

Leaving busy thoughts behind.

Entering a space where consciousness is not desired.

Experiencing an exoplanet inner world of newfound possibilities.

Programmed enigmatically by the archetypal collective unconscious.

About this poem

As the Bard William Shakespeare once declared in The Tempest: “We are such stuff as dreams are made of.”

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Written on February 08, 2024

Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 08, 2024

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Scheme X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 232
Words 38
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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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 ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “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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