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POETRY
Invocation Incantation
First Thursday Writing Prompt
Ah, so very good to see you once again
As we meet, strangers with like minds,
Incantations yet unsaid, but so needed now
At the cusp of spring we sit, you and I,
I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils
But we have other ideas, and needs to plant
Join me, stand beside me at the fire’s edge
Newness warmth to the yet cold earth,
The frost passing so reluctantly, and conjure now.
“Oh dear Dante, sweet explainer,
Traveler to the unknown places
Deepest underground, dark recesses”
I address him thus as a conjurer
Calling down or up or in between
To whatever place he rests — join us both, please.
“You know, because you know
Those secrets kept in guarded places
Where lies live, borrowed truths.
Please dearest Dante, truth smith,
Can you fashion a new hell circle deftly true
For those ambitious predators, those leeches
