by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Gift of the Elders The streets of Solanti were silent and dark. The moons had not yet risen, and we could not risk a light until we were out of the city center. Ryonel seemed to know where he was going though, for which I was glad. Although I...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Love is the Potion He said, I have a notion Love is the secret potion We should wear with attitude today. Caressing to the senses It’s doubtless too expensive For our silly pride to hoard away. Let’s wear it with abandon Soak...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Joy Rules Joy is simple: Two apple pies Baked for a man With love in his...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Much Just like the earth loves the late rain And holds it dearly Just like the sky loves the bright stars That light up her face, blessing the dark So we see clearly And like the rain loves a good cloud If you look up, I know that...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion DaddyBill’s Lap My favorite books, my favorite rhymes Bottomless ice-cream any time If Mama wasn’t looking. Jokes and riddles, tricks and blue clay If I could I would stay all day And wait for Nanny’s cooking. Gnarled old...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion If I Could Speak to Future Generations If I could speak to future generations, My sons and daughters, their offspring to be, I’d say, begin with, I don’t know anything, Then ask for ears that hear, and eyes that see. Assumptions are...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Transcendence Love, I feel ageless As though Time has fled away Embarrassed by his Mere temporality in Our eternal god-like play. This type of poetry developed in Japan hundreds of years ago, and is referred to as: Waka Tanka (short...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion A Future Date (Written in masculine voice, loosely based on a dream.) My girlfriend is the daughter of a prominent leader. I, an outcast from the underground, was about to take her to a movie; the first movie seen by anyone around...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Coyote Bait I saw a mother rabbit With a bunny on her back She knew he was too little To run from an attack. So she kept her bunny babe Perched up by her shoulder blade And went out for a snack. If only mamas everywhere Would keep...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Love and Life
Love and Life || Love is the Potion Firstborn I feel your body move and turn Inside of mine. All your contours I would learn To know you’re fine. Built like a flower ‘neath the sun, A clover stem. So fragile you are just begun, Each tiny limb. My body aches with...
