I’d never like to be a witch
Except on Halloween
To ride upon a bushy broom
Before a full moon’s gleam
A wart upon my crooked nose
I’d hold a big, black cat
And on my long and shaggy hair
There’d be a pointed hat
I’d drink no potions, no, just eat
Those gooey trick-or-treats
I’d get by stopping house to house
Astride my broom’s rough seat
And when the night is over
And morning streaks the sky
I’d leave my haunted mansion
And broom rides wild and high
Because:
I’d never like to be a witch
Except on Halloween
To ride upon a bushy broom
Before a full moon’s gleam
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Reviews of "A Witch"
Reviewed by Elizabeth Hobbs (Reader)
Reviewed on October 27, 2008
I enjoyed your poem. It really paints a picture and brings the senses alive.
Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on October 9, 2008
Gotta love Halloween, our one annual opportunity to look witchy and goblinish and say cool things like, "Muahahahahahaha!!!" So much more fun than returning to nerdsville the next morning. I love this little poem. Nice work :-)
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Ted
Thank you, ~D.
keith
Birgit and Roger