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The Indwelling Temple

Karl Constantine FOLKES

Seeking outward for the temple
We find it to be the dwelling place
Of sinners.
Seeking inwards for the temple
We find its holiness
In every human soul.

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This poem invites us to consider whether the Temple has a temporal or a metaphysical location.

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Written on July 06, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on September 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCADE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 148
Words 28
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Karl Constantine FOLKES

 · 1935 · Portland

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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