Love potion -100WCGU

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This weeks entry in 100 word challenge for grownups. The prompt this week is a recipe for a “dish” fit for a witch and I decided to once more write a sonnet and this time on the subject of love potions. As basis I use a tweet i did on a word-game on twitter called artwiculate. The word that day was inspissate, which means to reduce as in cooking. This time 114 words, sorry for that but a sonnet is a sonnet.
Painting by Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919), The Love Potion painted in 1903. Taken from wikimedia commons

She cooks a potion for eternal love
With powdered wings of bat and spicy sage
And inspissates with grass and blood of dove
In moonlight stirs her brew and turns the page

And with a smile she adds some spider silk
The furball from her neighbor’s cat (who’s black)
She lets it stew and adds some stolen milk
Oh promises in smell that fill her shack

And finally she takes a single hair
She stirs and chants his name, “Oh farmer Tom”
He drinks the ale she serves inside her lair
Indecency for Tom, a devil’s psalm

Oh Tom. Oh Tom you’re lost in sinful lust
So brother pray, and never witches trust
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October 30, 2012

23 responses to “Love potion -100WCGU”

  3. Thanks for reading and commenting on my 100WCGU entry, “The seasons of life,” I will follow your blog, , as I enjoyed your writinga as well. I invite you to follow my blog as well. Best wishes, beebeesworld

    • Once you get used it gets easier and easier. For me the most important part has been to write iambic… it’s actually easier to make tetrameter than pentameter I have found.. 🙂

  8. Beautifully done. The rhythm is very good too. Bravo for doing a sonnet, I find them really hard to write.

    I didn’t understand the devil’s psalm reference. Is there something in Ps91 you are alluding to?
    btw. She lets and adds.

  9. Urgh, I am so stuck with this recipe. And you did it so beautifully. Makes my heart sink even more. Can you write me a recipe for inspiration? 🙂

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