Least Read Poems About Witches

Part 1

They drug her by her hair
She kicked and screamed in despair
They bound her hands and feet
They carried her inside a bloody sheet
They threw her on a stump
Forcing her to position in a slump
They tore the sheet from round her head
A trio of sixes slowly bled
She sneered at her captives
In a language of madness
She vowed to exact revenge
Her words became a poisonous syringe
She mocked the performing priest
Her hatred for him increased
He bellowed the biblical scriptures
As the mass chanted the...

You see, I've always hated the word witch, Shaman, medicine man I never really mind,  
but healer now that rolls off the tongue,  
sweet as honey, light as breath.  

And yet, the record spins again,  
Lana’s voice calling the Season of the Witch,
over and over, an old vinyl whisper,  
crackling like firelight in the dark.  

They all think they’re different—  
but they’re all the same.  
Just words shifting shape,  
just names draped in different robes.  

I used to dream of flying,  
too bad I can’t.  
But I...

for Ann

As tall and white as gypsum lace hung high,
With eyes that kings would seek to tell
The outcomes of their wars when God
Became gnomic, a Galilean witch.
A country wife to manors born,
Yet also hermit, wise woman.

She lies in graves and pulls from ancient sod
The origins of death, and scouts the skies
For strange objects that linger in the arch.
She knows more lore than folks can tell,
She knows the meaning of each knell,
For whom it calls to heaven and to hell.

And lastly I can say she lives in Essex...

Passing years and Google


I wonder how old one has to be to have a dignified life, Google wants to re-identify myself
It appears there are many of me
They sent me a form where I have to place figures where they sit and move around
the problem is my eyesight is not good after
all at 86 six I’m not a Falk-eyed Indian
How this test can prove whether I’m me and not a company I don’t know
As it is I can’t log into X where I have 200 followers, which at my age is encouraging that there are people who like my view about politics and life in general ...