Rethymnon Harbour

A stunning harbour with a mix of old, ancient and hip. We liked it a lot. At the corner of the enclosed harbour where perfect stillness rolls up to the many restaurants that line its quayside, I turned the other way and saw this. If you look through the rails you can see some fishermen hoping for supper.

Here's a small piece I typed out today, lost in my thoughts.


If I spoke for a thousand years
would you hear me?
If I took a hundred burning arrows
in my subservient chest
would you mourn my loss?
I am the lost, the low,
the tortured, the weak;
cast me much lower
and I will burn my eyes
under the wrath of Hades
and its sordid hawks.
The Genesis Hall
is my road to recovery,
the flags of glory
my merciful passage
to a sweet restitution of inner joy.
Yet the river flows
with unnatural speed
and I cannot but feel
helpless and felled
at the feet of you,
my ungrateful lord.


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