If Witches

If witches would stay off their broomsticks,
not collecting black cats and kids,
not charring the sky with their tricks,
keep to their bottomless pit, deep off the grid…

If their cackles were buried in hell,
their pimples and warts swarmed with heat…
if they couldn’t, not one, recall a spell
and stayed off the world’s beat…

If witches would fall in their own cauldron
with all the eyes, ears, and feet they stole,
their curses ne’er heard again, end their doctrine,
face down in mire and defeat of their souls…

then the light of the sun and the moon
and the stars and candles would burn
with a glow of happiness and swoon -
to a glorious paradise mankind would return.

10/25/2022

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022



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Date: 10/25/2022 7:21:00 PM
Yes, if the witches who represent evil are destroyed or annihilated, this world will become a Paradise. Kim, I love your imagination and putting the truth in a fictional way! Greatly enjoyed!
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/26/2022 5:21:00 AM
Thank you, Valsa!
Date: 10/25/2022 7:20:00 PM
'If-witches' -- the whole world switches. ~ In stitches
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/26/2022 5:21:00 AM
lol…there’s twitches too ;)
Date: 10/25/2022 7:04:00 PM
Every witch way but loose! Where would we be without witches and would aliens take their place? I wonder... :))
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/26/2022 5:23:00 AM
We would be in paradise :) Thanks for your comment!
Date: 10/25/2022 4:48:00 PM
Conditions would vastly improve, if they weren't always flying every 'witch' way on those brooms. Enjoyed this fun poem, Kim. :D
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/25/2022 5:53:00 PM
For sure, Evelyn! Glad you liked it :)
Date: 10/25/2022 1:21:00 PM
- ... enjoy reading this funny poem, Kim :) ... let the witches fly free ... they don't pollute the air ... and we need them for scary Halloween poems :) - hugs
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/25/2022 1:26:00 PM
Thanks, Anne-Lise!
Date: 10/25/2022 9:22:00 AM
This is great Kim! Send those witches away. Well written :)
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/25/2022 1:26:00 PM
Thank you, Heidi!
Date: 10/25/2022 7:31:00 AM
Kim, great verse,,, stay away witches.. Many blessings my friend
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/25/2022 1:27:00 PM
Blessings to you, dear Eve!
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