Self-Reliance, according to Emerson

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841

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A South African Super Hero

Excerpt, "The Sunday Usual"

Part of the newly published collection Dues for the Repose: From Words Much Like Poetry by Wamuhu Mwaura " Perhaps once, I was enthralled. You were striking, with eyes like sun-fired amber that refused to douse their inner flame. " [Kindle Edition for instant reading.]

Excerpt, "Wasteland Dreams"

Andromeda, Gustave Doré Part of the collection Dues for the Repose: From Words Much Like Poetry by Wamuhu Mwaura " Near Joppa, guarded by a monster of the Earthshaker’s lending , I left her chained without hope—for Perseus is long dead , abandoned to oblivion by the fickle beliefs of men — " [ Kindle Edition for instant reading. ]

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