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
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Well done, Bjorn. Vivid images, nice language. It works.
Thank you…
Really enjoyed that one!
Thank you 🙂
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I am following now 🙂
Perfect words to go along with a great picture.
Thank you.
Love this. Well done. I’m impressed, sonnets are not easy.
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.. 🙂
Really interesting writing, and wise words at the end! lol!
Very nicely done; I have tried a sonnet for a previous 100wcgu but it fades into comparison with this; who’s counting 😉
Too nice of you to say so, I love iambic poetry and write it most every day.. But thank you for your kind words.
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.
I thought a devils psalm as a metafor for temptation actually. And thanks for those s-esss I always miss them. Thank you
Ah, maybe it is used that way.
I’m really very impressed by your tossing off a sonnet…
After writing a sestina sonnets seems easy 🙂
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? 🙂
I would focus on ingredients…
How about a musical touch?
The last tone from a bagpiper’s breast
A heartbeat of a drummer’s chest
The string of thought from the violinist
Nobody done that.
You just did 😉
Oops
Mooching about and found this one – the oldies are the best eh? You are a talent for sure.
Ah.. I did another potion sonnet just recently.. https://brudberg.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/a-cure-for-snores-a-magic-sonnet/
It’s fun to write recipes in meter.