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Time Flies With No Wings

Karl Constantine FOLKES

Haiku
Time flies with no wings
In space with no boundaries
Paired, though never seen.

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‘Tis a strange reality that, within a posited framework of four-dimensional Einsteinian physics, time and space are conjunctive phenomena, both of which coexist, yet never seen. This three-line acrostic haiku poem offers us a “TIP” of observation of that unsolved puzzle.

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Written on June 26, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on June 26, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on June 26, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 80
Words 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
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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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