Poisoned and drowning in the #elixir, no one's #empathetic, #consoling myself that everyone's going through something, it's alright.
It might look like they're paddling their boats, driving their yachts. Maybe i just can't see the holes in them from where i am, floating among the jettisoned.
#vss365

In his trembling hand
an elixir of bane and sand
drink my friend
if you have the gall
drink and you'll fear nothing
nothing at all
#vss365 #elixir #poetry

oh, the intoxicating brew
of you
chemistry rewritten for the ages
distilled, consumed
poisoned
by sultry lips
such silky sweet danger
liquid eyes, the darkest ink
trapped in glass
an apothecary
oh, to drink this cure
your delicious secret
this potent admixture
devour
your magic #elixir

#vss365

elixir of hope
a world of empathetic souls
braving life as one
to defeat childhood cancer
we can all console with love

©️Aspen

#BraveWrite #vss365 #tanka
#tanka #Poetry #Poem #Poet
#elixir #empathetic #console 🎗️
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth

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#vss365
It might inject us
with illusions of fate
straight after our hopes
to heal anything.
As the #elixir endures
death within a kaleidoscope
driven by more than mind.
Soon enough some reality
will calibrate light to let
darkness invade failed
vision of existence.

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‘These icebreaker things are cool,’

‘Yeah, it forces us out of our shells.’

‘So, tell me, what do you do that’s special?’

‘Well, I guess you could say I sell a magical #elixir to help people who are addicted to alcohol.’

‘Really? Like a new age therapist?’

‘No. I’m a bartender.’

#vss365

'Pixie, what's that awful stench?'
'I'm brewing an #elixir, Gabe.'
'You'd think an elixir would smell better. What does it do?'
'Ummm... cures troll farts.'
'Why did I ask? Just get it out the house. I'll return when it clears.'
'...aaaand he's gone. Now where did he hide those brownies?'
#vss365

sweetest dreams
sweeter #elixir
easing the pain
soothing the ache

lonely nights
aren't so cold no more

#vss365
#poetry

If ever you #freefall into the blues
an #effective #elixir is to forgo the news
ignore the orange #piggy
the #wildfires and wars
#harness in #sunshine
enjoy the outdoors

#vssmagic
#WIPSnips
#vss365
#inkmine
#WildWalkPrompt
#Bravewrite
#thingstowriteabout

Sometimes the elixir you never knew you needed is a kitten taking care of her mama and the reminder that every every every being knows how to show love through gentle deed.

#vss365 #elixir

#vss365 #elixir #poetry #BookSky #LitSky

This bitter #elixir
has the taste of
a wet metal spoon
and stale cardboard
yet the misguided ones
swallow every single drop
hoping to cheat time
while their joints ache
and scalp hair thins
just like nature
intended

#vss365

Whisper me the rub
Then leave assured

Watch out bub!
You think I’m insured!

#Elixir so sweet and potent
To heal a troubled mind

You didn’t pay rent!
You out of your mind?

Oblivious we pass the day
The secret safe as long as we say

#vss365
#poetry

I recognize parts of you in other people
It makes me a little bit in love with them
Guess I'm just like everybody else
Just want somebody more than a friend
This love #elixir is dangerous stuff
I already lost my head once, can't do it again
#vss365 #poem #poetry

They came from all corners of the world despite the risks

So many wealthy people in search of a way to prolong their lives

They drank the #elixir without questions, assuming it would give them life

Instead, it took what they had left and gave it to the creator of the drink
#vss365 #vsshorror

I drink the morning
from a leaf of light.

The mountains
quiet my blood.

Wind moves
through the pines-
and the wounded
in me
lets go.

Beyond medicine,
healing flows.
Beyond prayer,
grace grows.

Rain, earth,
and the green silence
of becoming whole.

Nature-
my oldest #elixir.

#vss365

Rebellion is no elixir,
unless drawn from
- or leads to -
the fruit of the Spirit
from the tree of Life.

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#vss365 #elixir
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#vss365 The merchant watched the hag grind bone, dried blood and strips of human flesh into her steaming #elixir. “You swear this will extend my life?”

“Oh, certainly,” she said, handing him the cup. “Every man I’ve made it from has been dead for centuries.” #Edvane #DarkFantasy

“The hag’ll steal you away,” the man at the end of the bar warns. “Don’t follow her. Don’t listen to her song or drink any #elixir she offers, or ye’ll be done for.”

I stumble home, still thirsty.

A blurry, beautiful woman is in the road, beckoning me.

This can’t be the hag.

I’m wrong.

#vss365