Apple Potion for Long Life

Take a glass pitcher of green or of gold,

For the future that you would have.

Take a cup of fresh apple cider

For spring and all new beginnings.

Take a cup of aged apple cider

For autumn and the lengthening of days.

Take a teaspoon of apple vinegar

For all the hard work that we do,

Take a shot of apple brandy

For all the joy that find us too.

Mix together with a swirl,

Add a slice of apple cut

Crosswise, to see the star,

And drink three swallows – no more.

Find an apple tree and pour

This potion out onto the roots.

You shall then reap the shining fruits

Of decades more to live and hold.

Hail Iduna green and gold!

Artwork by Odin's Girl.