Verum Tamen—Verum Est
The Self, Free Will, and Love…
today’s three illusions of life
Without just one our lives negate,
a charlatan’s delight
For the Self to Love most Freely,
this Holy Trinity must preside
What Plato ordained and Kant reframed
—modern thought tries most to hide
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 18, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XX AX XB AB X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 304 |
| Words | 48 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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