The Mirror Pool
by cricketjeff on November 7, 2016. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
The essence of perfection
Lies within that secret place
When the ripple-less reflection
Forms the image of your face.
Author notes
At the end of a verdant gash in a mountain in the west of the English Lake
District a tiny stream tumbles forty maybe fifty feet into the first of a
series of three pools.
The third pool hides beneath a willow tree, sunlight tries to peek in but
hardly disturbs the feel of cool dark wonder, and the surface of the water
forms the most beautiful mirror I know.
It needs just one thing …
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