by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion The Saints Two miracles at least, they said, But did not count those who’d been dead Diagnosed with cancer. A doctor without license gave Hope and life. He tried to save With yet another answer. The folks he’s helped,...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion The Maid (Jeanne D’arc) He said this life is just the seed Of what my soul can grow to be And if I save myself from pain How can I have a song or name? I know that life is never fair I don’t expect my foes to care. But now...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Tripping Breathless Life is rarely level ground ‘Fact, it’s mostly up or down Scaling mountains, crossing fords Often lost, but never bored Weary, desperate valley fights Tripping breathless o’er the...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Question For the Guru I climbed this mountain for the answers Led here by the legend of your fame And if I didn’t die I planned to ask you why Hoping for the answers to my pain. On the way I fell and bruised my knee My designer...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Strange Encounter We were taking a walk, my husband and I, in the late afternoon of a sunny day in Autumn. The leaves on the oak trees had turned bright gold from a frost the night before. I began to sing an old Irish hymn, Be Thou My...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Self Portrait I was dressed—and dressed to a T, Whatever the heck that might mean. To me it means, no one could see Who I really was. I looked like a smart, pensive child, Lost in a crowd of so much style And wishful thinking. I was...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion God Saves the Queen (from the hero’s perspective) They told me how to stand and walk They made me memorize the talk Then beat me when I tried to balk Those gods are cruel And Girl, I know, I’m in the red: I severed all...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Faith Faith is not quantity or quality belief. It matters not how strong your faith, For your belief is nothing great. It’s will not save, in any case. But rather, in whom do you believe? Faith is not confidence in your beliefs....
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Epiphany And then suddenly, I was found. It’s like a poem I didn’t get Until the end. And even then I wasn’t sure, until one day It happened exactly that way. Then I laughed, because the poet And I, we both felt the...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion The Minstrel’s Song (Psalm 11) I plead my case before the righteous judge: Why should I hide when I’ve done nothing wrong? Why do the evil boast aloud? What is this violent, jeering crowd? Why does the minstrel sing this...
