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
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