Drink The Water – A Quadrille

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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


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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

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

28 thoughts on “Drink The Water – A Quadrille”

    1. 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?

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    1. 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.

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  7. Love the song and the poem it inspired, especially the idea that water can stone you to the soul. So good.

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    1. 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 ☺️💕

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