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.

𓂃 ོ𓂃
#vss365 #elixir
Image courtesy of The National Gallery of Art

#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

Beatrix spent days gathering ingredients for the reanimation #elixir. At last, it was ready. She poured the liquid into her late lover's mouth, and watched it spill onto the floor.

"I think I waited too long... Trying to reanimate a skeleton is like trying to serve soup in a colander."

#vss365

Here’s my response to the prompt #elixir - thanks to our host of #vss365 Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social

The painting of Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus (1891) is by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #blankverse #ekphrasis #johnwilliamwaterhouse

All things have an end, and beginnings bloom despite, to spite, the dark. Some call it faith, some hope…knowledge, love, friendship, will, even luck. A thousand drops distilled in too many ways to count, gifting an #elixir true to its promise. #vss365

Her turn. She held the glass in a trembling hand. The #elixir bubbled & fizzed; some said it tasted bitter, some sweet. It depends on your outlook on life, she supposed. Go on! he urges, perplexed by her hesitance; he’d downed his in 1 gulp. With his insistence, she tentatively begins to sip #vss365

#vss365

Quench my curiosity
With the #elixir
of w
i
s
d
o
m
Show me
When...
To pause
To
B r e a the...
Lead me
Guide me
To create
To inspire
To share
Keep me in your
Good
W i s h

Poured in haste.

Molten to the core.

Depressed from lives once lived.

Into the cauldron of numbers less crunched, the #elixir mixed an answer.

#vss365