Psyche as the Mirror of Life
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
At eighty seven
My dreams are just beginning
To be a poet
Urged by sprites of the psyche
To share with you this message:
“Life starts from within
The Sanctuary of Hope
At a Temenos
A place of security
Buried deep within the Self.
You must consult it
To find its hidden treasures
Which enriches all
Where dwells The Tree of Knowledge
Encasing Good and Evil.
Do not be haughty
Seek it with humility
Be ever patient
And it will grant you Wisdom
Power of Transformation.
You must be patient
For Patience is a virtue
Chance for reflection
To know what Life desires
For Life itself is mirrored.
The mirror of Life
Is constantly reflecting
All of our actions
Recorded by the psyche
For our purification.
We have personas
With Psyche hosting us all
Monitoring us
Giving us so many “takes”
To make our actions better.
All the world’s a stage
All of us merely players
Playing many parts
With entrances and exits
All done at several ages.”
At eighty seven
My dreams are just beginning
To be a poet
Urged by sprites of the psyche
To share with you this message.
About this poem
Acts 2:17 (ESV) of The Holy Bible states: “And in the last days it shall be, God declared, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” At age eighty seven, and in the golden years of my life, this poem is written from the perspective of an octogenarian poet as a dreamer, bearing a confessional message from the Inner World of “the psyche mirror” for all sons and daughters, for all who have visions, and for all others who are dreamers and recognize that the psyche as a Temenos, a sacred enclosure, is a mirror of our material life experiences and a foreshadow of our greater experiences of the everlasting divine. This nine-stanza 5-7-5-7-7 metered Tanka poem is composed in the format of a literary Inclusio, with the ninth and final stanza concluding the poem reflectively with the same lines as the first stanza of the poem. more »
Written on July 07, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on July 07, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on July 09, 2022
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | ABCDE xxfdx xfgex ddhxa hxafx xbfda fgffx xffff ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,083 |
| Words | 224 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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