Drink The Water
I heard the calling and came to you Knowing it was where I was meant to be Strange, unsettling, wanting to adapt I listened to your words and I drank in your water, deep into my being until it stoned me to my soul Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved De Jackson is hosting D'Verse Poets Monday Quadrille she and has prompted us with the word 'Stone'. I immediately thought of one of my favorite Van Morrison songs "And It Stoned Me" from his Moondance album. It inspired my quadrille. The song is about an experience Morrison had when he was 12 years old. After a day of fishing outside a village named Ballystockart in his native Ireland, Morrison and his friends stopped in one of the village's houses, where they saw an old man sitting inside. In Steven Turner's Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now, Morrison describes him as "dark weather-beaten." Morrison and his friends asked the man for water, and he gave them some he'd gotten from a nearby stream. As Morrison drank the stream water he slipped into mystical experience. "Time stood still," he says in Too Late to Stop Now. "For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this other dimension. "That's what the song is about." Courtesy of Songfacts
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title
Am sharing a poem I did write on a relationships – do read !
https://appamprawns.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/a-river-between-us/
Strange, unsettling, wanting to adapt
I listened to your words and I drank in….these words haunt as well as draw me in. Superb!
Thank you. I appreciate it very much ☺️
You are welcome !
A deeply spiritual experience is what I took from your poem. I wish I have this experience some day.
Thank you Grace. That was where I was going with it. Yes, like you, I hope I can experience that one day, just like Van Morrison ☺️💕
I had never heard that, but it is a mystical experience unless the old man put some acid into the water.
Yes! I wondered if his friends also had the same experience. He didn’t say.
Love the song and the poem it inspired, especially the idea that water can stone you to the soul. So good.
Thanks De 🤣💕
That sounds like powerful water! Such an interesting story, Christine: I wonder what on earth the old man gave him?
Lol! I think the fairies were behind it! You know what it’s like in Ireland they love all that mystical, magical stuff 🤣
I’m sure Van did experience something although his friends were unaffected.
Perhaps just his wild imagination then 😉
I like the tension you created in this poem Christine
“Strange, unsettling, ” contrasts so well with the sedentary stone in water
Thanks Laura ☺️ I appreciate it so much
I saw VM in concert once in DC – he’s one of my favorites! Thanks for sharing that poem and tidbit, Christine!
<3
David
Oh lucky you David. I have never seen him in concert. He has a reputation for not connecting with his audience. He comes out and performs and then ‘seeya’ 🤣. Would you agree?
hmn… I never thought about it.
I guess, yes, I don’t remember him being available after the concert itself.
😦❤️
Oh my! This is an amazing story and you wove it into a quadrille beautifully! 💞😊
Thank you Punam dear ☺️💕
My pleasure. 😊💞
A marvelous use of the prompt word Christine
Thanks Sadje. This was an easy place to go knowing Van Morrison’s story 😦💕
You’re welcome
Oh wow, I’m getting the goosebumps after reading your afterword. Wonderful tribute poem to Van’s experience.
Yes it was an amazing story for a 12 year old ☺️ Thanks Lisa💕
You’re welcome 🙂