willow, forked and young
knows water and bows to it–
all magic is thirst
***my mother and grandmother were good dowsers, or diviners of water. I never tried, but decided to take an unexpected turn with today’s prompt.
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Susan Daniels Poetry 
All magic is thirst. I love that!
George–thank you! Imagine my smile when I found out today’s prompt was “divine” after I just wrote about the more traditional definition yesterday 😉
Glad you liked the image–I think it is true, in a sense.
Nice take on the prompt quite enjoying your words today
Bruce–thank you–likewise. I looked at that other poem, “Stripping,” and decided to end it with the first stanza. The rest is just me preaching. Like it better that way 😉
Wonderful… Another perceptive and original piece.
Thank you, Soraya. Like I said above, I really couldn’t do one about divinity right on the tail of the one I did yesterday 😉
the thirst is enigmatic in it!
😉
One of your best haiku that touched me susan… It’s beautiful! Really magical! 🙂
Cradling star rock in pious palms
Pranita–oh, thank you so much for liking this one! Loved yours…
Another magical take … wow !!!
oh gosh, thanks!
You’ve taken this (challenging) prompt a long way I think – I enjoyed this.
Matthew, Thanks much. Glad you liked.
Little tidbit for ya SFAM…my grandfather was a diviner. Yeah, he was a wonder to watch. Love this!
Thanks for liking. I have seen this in action, and it is SO COOL!!!!
absolutely. was hoping it would pass down to me, but alas the only water i seem to divinel…comes with a port o john attached! yech
oh–that had to come up somehow, didn’t it? Traumatic experiences do NOT leave our minds as quickly as we would like them to…BTW, you need to blog about that Verizon BS you told me about yesterday. That just makes this whole thing worse.
Oy…think it’ll get me a new phone? rofl. if only!
it might–just so they could make you take back all the mean things you know you want to write about them…
I’m in the process SFAM…it’s a done deal at this point, got nothing to lose! Thanks!
Lovely nature image and emotion in your haiku! 🙂
Thank you!
I enjoyed your take on this prompt. Very well done especially the last line!
Thank you, Barbara!
Oh, I love your different take on the prompt! How fascinating that your mother and grandmother were dousers. I bet you can do it too.
Thanks, Patti! Where I live now, with all the old wells, next to a creek, if I attempted it, that branch would probably go crazy 😉
Would be interesting to try, though.
Great take on today’s prompt. I have diviners in my family too. I love the line “knows water and bends to it” Good write!!!
Elle, thanks! Fun to watch, isn’t it?
Such a fascinating thing!
Yes–I have often wondered how it works, exactly.
Bowing to the water to divine, how lovely!
Curiosity is thirst of knowing, yes.
🙂
Oh thank you! I thought that line was pretty 😉
Well written Susan. I love the picture in this one. I onece tried dowsing myself, but … ah it didn’t work out. So I turned to the cards.
Oh, the cards…I used to read those, a long, long time ago, with my sister.
magnificent … 🙂
oh, thanks so much odyzz!
Beautifully original. ‘All magic is thirst.’ That is deep and true.
Celestine, thanks so much for liking this!
Such a wonderfully different take. All magic is thirst – I kept turning that over n over in my mind …..
Thank you, Jolly! It kind of is, if you think about it–a thirst for knowledge, a desire for energy to move through us.
Well done.
Thanks very much, Karin!
I really liked your unique take on the word– and loved the piece of “susan history”
Oh–thanks, sweetie! All I remember is my mom talking about this and saying all you had to do was walk in a field with that forked twig, feeling thirsty…Sounds a bit too simple for me 😉
I’ve always wondered if those divining rods really worked…also supposed that it depended who was doing the divining. Good haiku!
Thank you–they do work, but don’t ask me why…
Maybe you haven’t tried, but it’s in your genes? Atleast the curiosity of it all?
Curious, definitely. Liked it as a poem. have not needed to dig a well, though 😉
Interesting and personal twist … thank you for sharing in your note at the end. Enjoyed!
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Oh, thank you, Becca!
Sublime!
Thanks so much–really glad you liked it!