The Witches

What a band of ruthless witches:

Wicked, ugly, pickled itches

With such grave and ghastly twitches,

Stitching binds, unbinding stitches,

Slitting throats to gather riches

For their slimy storage ditches,

Cackling in the highest pitches,

Clashing when spells suffer glitches-

But which is the witch here which is

On the whole the queen of snitches?

 

Most dark and secret be these hags-

These mischief-making scalawags-

With warty fingers, saggy bags,

Disheveled hair, and straggly rags,

Who run about in zigs and zags

Beneath the jutting jagged jags

Amidst the crusty craggy crags

Around the dusky musty quags

Where dusty smog conceals the snags,

And stifles all with wheezing gags.

 

Rain in bitter torrents drenches

All the crags and muddy trenches,

Leaking down to where it quenches

All the thirsts of those with wrenches

Stirring cauldrons of bad stenches,

Putting potions on their benches,

Harrowing whoever blenches

With their claim as überwensches

(Though they can’t tell bass from tenches,

Nor have any clue what French is).

 

Beneath the bleak and hazy hills,

The cauldron’s smoke their cavern fills

As each witch tends to selfish wills,

And are such hard-to-swallow pills,

Who rail, and rage, and rat in shrills,

And conjure streams of hellish ills

When any disregards their skills,

And spoils a potion, sparks some spills

From cans of quills or jars of gills-

They toil in bubbles, troubling thrills.

 

So which witch is the queen of snitches?

I say each one amidst these witches.

-EDP

Reviews

[Tehmee's~word]

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This is just so exquisite, i wanna cry😫
You've got real talent

[emipoemi]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[maria ( rose)]

awe love it! just seen it in our Group..the best group to get reviews) anyway. I have a contest if you would like to enter its called Ghost Writers
October 5, 2017 - October 31, 2017. and best of luck!

[emipoemi]

Cyool. Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the poem (it's one of my earlier absurd pieces).

[maria ( rose)]

:) Good Work!! keep it up.