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

  September 2021     3 hours ago

Submitted Poems 451 total

Our Zeitgeist Culture: A Meditation

The past, present and future of our zeitgeist culture is gleaned in our carbon footprints as free-will thinking evolutionary Homo sapiens.

As the world turns, so does all humanity likewise turn. We live in an ever-turning turbulent transitory...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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We Are the Ticktock of the Universe

Consider this, my friend.
Reflect on it with great intention.
Our brain provides images
of what our mind imagines.

Our brain is therefore like a camera
whose lenses are the human eyes;
whose ears provide the audio feed
by which we hear.

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by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Unsere unbeugsame menschliche Beständigkeit

Warum wir als Menschen existieren:

Geboren, um die Sterne zu erben, ist das Wesen unserer Einzigartigkeit in der Galaxie unser unbesiegbare menschlicher Geist; unsere Präsenz und Beständigkeit als Homo sapiens im Milchstraßen-Universum.

Wir...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Our Indomitable Human Permanence

Each of us is a piece of time, measured out to all eternity. And no piece, no matter the cut or slice, is any larger or smaller in its entirety than the whole, whereof it constitutes the sum.
Each of us occupies a space in time, with our space and...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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The Thought That Lingers: Part Twelve

The passionate thought that lingers in my head
The ever lingering festering thought
Is that of knowing who I truly am
The corporeal me of flesh inhabiting a soul
The thought of why I’m here; and what I’m meant to be; and to become.

Beware ye...

by Karl Constantine FOLKES

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Thanks for sharing this mystical poem. I invite you to take a look at the film called “Somewhere in Time” starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

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Ah, what irony! The more man philosophizes concerning his true nature, the more he finds that task more wanting of his true nature.

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Quite a noble achievement. I thank you for enlightening our loving spaces.

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Thank you all for serving as environmental monitors of our zeitgeist cultures.

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The psychological walls we all face and must overcome in our own time and space in order for our light to overcome our darkness. Wow! This enchanting poem captures in an intimate way my own poem, “We are the Tic Tock of the Universe.” Thank you. 

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The movement of a water stream (the waterfall) in consonance with the human soul, which like a forest tree, is divinely nourished by the living water of life. A beautiful poem!

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Wow! Like the recurring swelling waves of the ocean echoing in our ears, the rhythmic beats of poetic onomatopoeia ring thrillingly in our ears.

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A thought for all of us to chew on.

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As a human species we are the creators and designers of our own destiny.

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The Tintinnabulation of the Human Soul!

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The act of Mindfulness is what what binds us together as kindred folk.

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This poem, suggesting that ‘no man is an island entire unto itself,’ is written in the spirit of 1 Thessalonians 5:11, inviting us to be spiritually supportive and loving toward our fellow human beings.

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Our human birthright

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Die Frage: Warum existieren wir als Homo sapiens?

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Indeed the infinite cycle of life!

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