Spelling Lesson
To cast a spell with perfect skill
While using words that rhyme
Is waving iron on stormy hill
And not just spelling time
The magics flicker twist and weave
Like hand tied flies o’er mountain streams
Casting spell requires skill
Hard learned by those who dance in dreams
A sharp barbed hook can circle till
It finds a novice ear
There’re spells that bind and spells to find
And spells that one can take
From using any indiscreet
To stand on steady feet
For Magic charges fees to they
Who in her wiles wade
And waits a spell like fires in Hell
For payment yet unpaid
A careful skill indeed with will
And need to weed to garden
Make no mistake and give don’t take
And ask no witch for pardon
Copyright © Donald Meikle | Year Posted 2005
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