Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Welcome Garden Witches

Witches in my gardens, blessing them.  
Using their notoriously generous green thumbs to help repot the plants snatched out by gray wind yesterday.
Witches, welcome!  So grateful you have arrived!
            Thank you for showing me the old one’s ways to grow the best thyme and basil possible.

The magic you bestow upon my garden, humbles me, and my daughters, and my daughters’ daughters.

To no one do harm, your motto, your creed.  I know you in no way resemble the tales of
Witches in faerie tales, rather, mother earth faeries who got a bad rap because you followed
Your dreams and went your own ways in a patriarchal society.   Scaring women who were afraid of your
Unseemly ways.

I am honored you chose my garden, bestowing your experience and your wizen ways
Upon my plants.  Thank you, Witch sisters! Welcome!

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Sand Blown August 28, 2018 at 10:51 PM nice write...'witches' were the ones thrown under the proverbial bus of history...heaven was apparently full : ) Caren Krutsinger August 29, 2018 at 3:12 AM Hilarious comment, Sand Blown. Well put.

Connie Marcum Wong August 28, 2018 at 9:08 PM Witches were given a bad rep so long ago, unfairly. What people don't understand they are afraid of. I enjoyed your poem very much Caren. : ) Caren Krutsinger August 29, 2018 at 3:12 AM Thank you Connie. I am open to witches, as they are really female gardeners, persecuted by jealous men story tellers.