Mirror of Time

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;color:black;'>Thomas Roop has been fortunate enough to travel widely through his life learning from a wide variety of cultures traditions and religions. These encounters inculcated and developed a love for humankind. While travelling through Denmark he encountered and fell in love with the work of the 19<sup>th</sup> century poet novelist and playwright Hans Christian Anderson. The literature of T. S. Eliot Carl Sandburg Sylvia Plath Maya Angelou and others are all evident influences on <span style='font-size:15px;font-family:Arial Novasans-serif;color:black;'>Roop's </span>own work. All of these encounters inspired him to share his own ideas reflections and insights in this anthology of poetry. </span></p>