Seven of Cups
Upright Meaning: Dreams, imagination, temptation, multiple possibilities; discernment required among illusions. Reversed Meaning: Clarity, decision, focus; grounding imagination into reality and choosing one path.
The champagne of the cosmos fills
the bowl, spills down to the central cup,
effervescence bubbling out of the other six.
I would choose that center cup,
its stem a wand, no, a torch.
I would drink stars from that blazing chalice,
gulp them greedily, spilling stardust down my chin
into my cleavage. Those other cups
contain beasts and brains.
I will not drink from them.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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