The Troll-Witch
Here’s the story of a witch, good instead of bad.
No matter that she’s ugly as a troll.
She loves children and their innocence.
Protecting children, therefore, is her goal.
Unable to bear children,
the mother of the Troll-witch visited
a witch who gave to her two flowers:
the second one to eat was prohibited.
First the mother ate the pretty flower
and a daughter beautiful she had.
The mother, hoping for a son,
ate the second flower; that was bad!
The Witch-troll came about because
her mother did not harken to the witch.
Therefore, a witch herself the mother bore,
but her troll-like daughter was in kindness rich!
She loved and lost her pretty sister when
the trolls did steal her, and she fought.
She killed them all with a wooden spoon,
but getting back her sister she did not.
In ‘63, Hellboy came to her
for help when children gruesomely were killed,
the Troll-witch gave to him the wooden spoon.
The trolls turned into stone; no blood was spilled
I really like the Troll-witch, for
infertile Norway mothers need not mourn.
She gives them each a lovely flower, so
children beautiful to them can be born.
April 11,2023
For Robert James Liguori's 'The Women of Hellboy' Poetry Contest
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