Joyfully Speechless!

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)



“Yugen” in Japan.
The experience of Awe.
Mount Fuji sunset!

About this poem

“YUGEN:” Things and occasions that evoke mystery, the magical, awe, immeasurable joy, and wonder, often leaving one speechless. In traditional aesthetics, the Japanese word “yugen,” pertaining to one’s profound awareness of, and sense of Oneness with, the universe at a given moment in time , and which is inexplicably deep, too mysterious to be explained in words, leaving one breathlessly silent, evokes such an experience of the ever essence of all that is divinely magical. Mount Fuji, Fujisan, especially at a time of Golden sunset, leaves its beholder with such a precious experience, often captured in waka, haiku, other forms of Japanese poetry, the performing arts, literature, and painting. This haiku poem registers the epitome of yugen; that Silence is Golden! 

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Written on December 22, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 22, 2021

Modified by karlcfolkes on October 05, 2022

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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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