by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion The Mountains Oh, don’t go there, he said, you surely will die! They’ll tear you to pieces and eat you alive. The mountains are dang’rous, the woods full of teeth ‘Sides, how could you live there, and what will...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion We Ate the God of Play-Pretend (from a dream) I dreamt a vale where rivers ran Verdant green spread o’er the land Woodland folk, trees, beasts and man Prospered in the lees. And there a giant idol stood Hailed as “God of...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Starstruck in Limberlost He didn’t know (he couldn’t have) How much the ride would cost Blind in the strobe, the smoke, and glow Starstruck in Limberlost. The high was high, the low was high The ride went higher still No...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Alien Encounter (a dream) They came to destroy everything—not in malice or revenge, and not to rob or dominate. They were sent, like a demolition team, to remove a dangerous, life-threatening situation so that life might continue...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion The Least One (A dream) I was walking down the street of a village in an arid Mediterranean country. The street was cobbled stone. On one side there was a long, continuous row of houses attached to one another. Most of them had beams...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Befriended by Life Friend, if you’ve got a hand on your shoulder A smile from the eyes of a lover nearby A fire to warm your hands when it’s colder There isn’t much more to be had in this life. Friend, if...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Singer in the Mire A needle’s shot of pain and fear (this drug the Enemy found dear) Made from souls tormented here A harvest dark and mean. The Adversary boasted win Sad, hopeless cries were strength to him He whispered lies;...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Kiss and Tell Once upon a day eternal ‘Round the dawning of a year God was found in meditation O’er this slowly turning sphere “I’ve an excess of sheer blessing I would like to spread down there, So, have any...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion She She laughed With those bright eyes dancing and her head thrown back Like a poppy flower throwing pollen to the wind. She sang With her mouth open and taut with emotion Like a puppy serenading full moon in October. She moved With...
by Connect | Jan 4, 2020 | Provocative
Provocative || Love is the Potion Eclipse Dignitaries dancing in the sky A perfect set of turns going by Ancient bow and spin with solemn grace Not one e’er misstepped or skipped a pace. It is the year twenty-seventeen We watch the skies for a virgin queen...
