Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITCH'S SONG, by MARJORIE MEEKER


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WITCH'S SONG, by                    
First Line: Under the toadstool
Last Line: On my enemies!)
Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches


Under the toadstool
In a gloom
Of dew-dark pool
And dank mushroom

The toad will sit
With jeweled eyes
In exquisite
And fixed surprise

On the moon, a disk
Near and pale
Crossed by the whisk
Of a black cat's tail.

(I will walk in the wood.
I will weave a charm.
Much that is good
Shall come to harm!)

The guilty lake
Will keep its dream
But the wood will shake
To the white owl's scream

And under stones
Cold slimy creepers
Will gnaw the bones
Of twisted sleepers

While I hurry
Where light is scant
And furred things scurry
And bat-wings slant . . .

(Served by worse
Than night and these,
I will lay a curse
On my enemies!)





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