Analysis of Who Can Answer My Question?



If all that exists
must have some kind of ending,
what is to say of Time?

Is Time a mirage?
Can Einstein quantify it?
Is it relative?

I want to know this.
Who can answer my question?
Any physicist?


Scheme XXX XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1111110 111111 11001 110101 11100 11111 1110110 10100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 200
Words 49
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

This three-stanza haiku poem, though spontaneously written, has been sitting, forever cooking in the deep recesses of my mind, and is a serious querying about the nature of time specifically, and of reality in general.

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Written on January 27, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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