Wordle: Alchemist’s Way


The Full Moon lights the tor with a silvery glow
And as I lean upon my crooked staff
I make my way toward the top
Along the wild and ragged path

The wind swirls around me like enraged phantoms
Pushing me forward and back
With loose stones and pebbles
Trying to force me off the track

Finally I reach the altar on the hilltop
Not to worship any God
Instead to chant three secret words
To conjure the element named Gold

No need for smokescreens or magic mirrors
I just use nature’s basic four
Earth, Water, Air and Fire
And lead, of course, one more.

HASH TAG DISASTER!!!
I made the mistake of altering the theme back to a previous one, which caused all images to be stretched out of all proportion and look absolutely terrible. I tried to edit the image in this post, which took an age, and then the whole post vanished. With the post being published, it was no longer available in Live Writer, so I had to delve into my memory banks and try to recreate what I’d originally written. This captures the gist of the original post, although hastily written, but I feel some of the ‘magic’ in it is now missing.

At least I’ve learned a lesson or two. Never go back to an old theme, or take a copy of the post beforehand if I so must.

Apologies if you’ve seen a blank post whilst I was hastily trying to resolve this disaster.

23 responses to “Wordle: Alchemist’s Way”

  1. Sue Dreamwalker avatar

    Hi Tom.. love the new look again.. as I type in the box.. And so enjoyed the poem… I know what you mean about “The wind swirls around me like enraged phantoms Pushing me forward and back “.. It is getting a little rough out there at the moment..
    Many thanks for your visit.. And wishing you a wonderful Easter Sunday today..
    Hope you enjoy your Easter short break.. love and blessings Sue

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Hi Sue… yes, you know me – always messing with the theme. I’ll get it right one day, I’m sure!
      I’m pleased you enjoyed it – these Wordles are fun to do! And yes – the weather has certainly been wild of late, hasn’t it? Brilliant sunshine here this morning, torrential rain, thunder, lightning and darkness this afternoon. Weather aside, I’m having a nice, relaxing Easter. I hope you too are enjoying your Easter weekend!

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      1. Sue Dreamwalker avatar

        Yes Tom.. relaxing indoors, made the most of Good Friday and outdoors weather 🙂

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        1. Tom Merriman avatar

          Good Friday was good weather, Sue – Saturday and Easter Sunday less so (to say the least!) – here anyway! Relaxing is goow ahtever the weather!

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          1. Sue Dreamwalker avatar

            Same here Tom… Glad I went walking on the Friday 🙂

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  2. Visionkeeper avatar

    Alchemize away in your Laboratory TL as well as in nature…Many wonderful new things to be created by our thoughts. Just don’t get blown off the hill while you’re up there! Happy Bunny day to you. Hoping you have a meaningful and loving day….VK 🙂

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Ha – I’ll try not to get blown away, VK. I really should create more, I feel.
      Hope you’re having a good Easter as well!

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  3. Jae Rose avatar

    Pure magic – I imagined Stonehenge..a misty morning and a silent pilgrimage..

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Hi Jae! I’m pleased my words (and the Wordle ones, obviously!) brought such a special place into your mind. Yes, Stonehenge works for me too!

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  4. brenda warren avatar

    Conjuring gold! I love that these words opened magic through your fingers to the page. Well done.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thank you, Brenda, and for supplying the words as well. You can’t go wrong with a touch of magic every now and then!

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  5. C.C. avatar

    “The wind swirls around me like enraged phantoms”—what a vivid picture this paints…..really easy to imagine how a wind like that would try to keep you off the track!

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      I’m pleased that the imagery works, CC… thank you!

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  6. prenin avatar

    Good piece Tom – DESPITE WordPress screwing up!!! 🙂

    God Bless and long may you continue!!! 🙂

    Prenin.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thanks, Prenin. I really do not know what happened, but I managed to get around it!

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  7. colonialist avatar

    This really does create some vivid images.
    Strange that you lost the original so completely. WP has been rather good, lately, with automatically saving attempts as drafts even when only just started.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      I’m wondering if it had anything to do with Live Writer, Col… although, if I’m honest it could have been anything! Glad I conjured some images for you!

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  8. The Writer's Village avatar

    Well, you got me to look up the word “tor”, and I enjoy reading and looking up words, so thank you for that.

    I, too, liked the line an image of the wind swirling as an enraged phantom.

    Now, I need to ask, as I looked it up and could find no answer, what are the three secret words to conjure up the element named Gold? And please do not give me the answer that if you told me it wouldn’t be a secret anymore.

    And I took the last lines of nature’s basic four plus lead as a lighthearted ending. Although I question, why you would add lead – other than needing to add one more word to the poem – and if that’s the case I stand by my assessment of a lighthearted ending.

    All in all it was fun. I look forward to reading your answers.

    Randy

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Hello, Randy! Thanks for commenting.
      When I wrote this, I had in mind a cloaked wizard climbing the tor ( 🙂 ) to carry out a magical ritual to transmute lead into gold, which was one of the ancient quests when folk used to practice alchemy, long before chemistry became a science. As the elements of the lead needed to be altered to become gold in alchemy, and magic uses the four elements Earth, Water, Air and Fire, I blended the two together. The whole thing was meant in a light-hearted way, but with a tiny bit of ‘science’ included. As to the three secret words, well, they go back to ancient times as well, and are known only to magicians, wizards, warlocks and the like. In other words, I haven’t a clue as to what they are… and as such they still remain a secret! It would be handy to know them though, wouldn’t it? 😉
      I’m pleased that you found it fun… the original version (before I lost it) was actually somewhat better – even if I do say so myself!

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  9. europasicewolf avatar

    Cool theme Tom! It has some interesting effects too 🙂 Unfortunate about your original blog post though I’m sure you’re not alone in incidents like that, blog world always throws up some nasty to keep us on our toes..LW being no exception in my experience! I usually keep a copy of the original in Word for reference as I notice LW deletes everything off the server every so often and you lose all your saved posts….that is very annoying. I don’t think your post has lost any magic but then again I know I’d think so if it was one of mine so…. 😉

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Thanks, Icewolf. It’s never happened to me before so it took me by surprise, although it shouldn’t have done so as I’ve had quite a few random quirks to contend with lately. Never mind. I think I may keep copies in Word myself from now on…

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      1. europasicewolf avatar

        It’s worth the effort if you value your posts. It was not funny to go into live Writer one evening to find every single last post saved in it were well and truly gone never to be seen on there again. I presume they don’t have room on the server to store them indefinitely but a warning would have been nice!

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        1. Tom Merriman avatar

          It so is worth it, Icewolf. That said, I’m still editing posts without saving a copy first, only to think ‘Ah – I should have done that’ afterwards. It makes sense that they maybe don’t have enough room on the server, but isn’t Windows Microsoft and don’t they have the cloud? Actually though, Live Writer’s free and it seems they’re phasing it out anyway… shame really.

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