Anthropos

It is almost common knowledge the various inspiring quotes concerning the importance of not giving up when met by a failure or defeat but to rise and move ahead. They even seem to amalgamate into the core of our society, directing our gaze upwards; as one of the possible origins of  the Hellenic word for human, Anthropos, means:to look upwards.

Pick up your pieces and move forth. Yet,

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“How frail the human heart must be-a mirrored pool of thought”

” It is no night to drown in:  A full moon, river lapsing

Black beneath bland mirror sheen,

The blue water-mists dropping  Scrim after scrim like fishnets

Though fishermen are sleeping

The massive castle turrets  Doubling themselves in a glass

All stillness. Yet these shapes float…