Analysis of The Co-interdependence of Life Forms
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
In all of Life’s forms
the unconscious state is primary.
At state of one’s ‘birth’
it ‘materializes,’
transformed into ‘consciousness.’
Life is a cycle,
operating in two states:
The ‘Potential’ state,
as potential energy,
existing in inert state.
In this inert state
of mass potentialities,
energy is ‘Dark.’
It is ‘Collective Dark Energy.’
It is the ‘Collective Unconscious.’
In its inert form
this is a ‘Primary State.’
It precedes consciousness.
As an autonomous state,
it is ‘The Source’ of consciousness.
As ‘Active’ energy,
consciousness is inert form
transformed now as ‘Matter,’
transformed as ‘Kinetic’ energy,
emerging from its latent potential state.
The cycle of Life,
examined psychologically,
views two distinct states:
The ‘Conscious’ and the ‘Unconscious.’
The perspective of psychoanalysis.
In the physical sciences
of theoretical physics,
these are energy states:
The one potential,
and the other kinetic.
These two states of energy
are in constant dynamic interaction.
In the world of human behavior,
they manifest as waking states of consciousness,
interacting with our unconscious dream state.
Like the monarch butterfly,
At one time as a caterpillar,
living life in a chrysalis stage;
crawling on the ground in lowliness;
then later soaring in majesty…
Or fly larvae embracing a tree leaf,
producing eggs to be hatched;
first laying in inert form,
bequeathed with latent energy;
then later airborne as buzzing flies…
So are all life forms ever in interaction;
as energy in movement or stationary.
revealing the constancy of change
that governs all existence;
the universe and all the galaxies.
All things of nature,
‘living’ or ‘non-living,’
are in constant interaction with one another.
All in constant states of co-interdependence.
All in constant states of transformation.
Although ever in transformation,
these two states preserve their potentials;
neither losing nor gaining.
Bounded by the laws of nature,
they remain in constant interdependence.
Collectively these two states
are co-interdependent:
The ‘Inert’ and the ‘Active.’
All of life is a transformation.
All of life’s forms are co-interdependent.
Scheme | ABXXC DEFBF FAXBC GFCFC BGHBF XBECC XXEDX BIHCF XHXAB XXGBX IBXJX HKHJI IXKHJ ELXIL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 01111 0101110 11111 101000 0101100 11010 100011 00101 1010100 0100011 01011 111 10011 110101100 11001010 01011 110101 101100 1101001 11011100 110100 1001011 011110 011010100 01011100101 01011 0100100 11011 0100010 0010100100 00100100 1010010 111001 01010 0010010 1111100 1010010010 001110010 11011011100 0101101011 10110 11110100 101001001 1010101 110100100 1110010011 0101111 1100011 01110100 11011101 11111100010 11000101100 010010011 1101010 010010100 11110 101110 101001011010 10101110010 101011010 1100010 111011010 1010110 10101110 1010100010 0100111 110010 0010010 11110010 1111110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,230 |
Words | 396 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 70 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This fourteen-stanza tanka poem emerged from my mind-streaming reflection on the seeming innate connections between ‘Life’ and ‘Death,’ ‘Consciousness’ and the ‘Unconscious’ and in theoretical physics between. ‘Potential’ energy and ‘Kinetic’ energy. This poem invites commentary.
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Written on August 12, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on August 12, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on August 15, 2023
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