Friday, August 11, 2017

STORYHOUR : A Sea Glass Serenade #Friyay #mythopoetry





















AND SO IT HAPPENED
True personality is always a vocation...vocation acts like a law of god from which there is no escape. 
-C.G. Jung

Archetypal Suffering  "The Development of Personality"
CW17, p. 175


Tear catchers popular once
among our womankind
whose men are lost in battle
during the Civil War; many
ladies of such mind
say tears of wives and daughters
are sacred much like holy
water


It makes me think of glassy sea & blues
that in their whitely singing foam
mermaids also knew
and of this ancient turning solid
suspending sadness in those tears they
drew—caring too, they might undo
the shipwrecked fates of men in lore


And, as if by some enchanted magic
pulled they underneath
the grey-green ocean
floor
swept up in varied colors thrust
such teardrops onto shore


©2017 Sea Glass Serenade stephanie pope mythopoetry.com