Witches’s Brew

A Halloween Story in Verse

It is Halloween night.Time for trick or treating.

It is Halloween night.Time for trick or treating.

She walks up to the door.

She knocks on the door.

Is anyone home?

No one is home, so she goes to the next house.

And the next house.

She continues walking,

going house to house.

Is anyone home?

Nobody`s home.

Is anyone home?

So, she goes to the next house.

And the next house...

Someone’s home!

Trick or Treat!

Finally, she found someone home!

Want to hear a story?

Yes, she wants to hear the story!

A woman begins to speak…

Listen, my friends.

And you will hear…

A Halloween story

told every year.

Witches come

on Halloween night!

To cook together

all through the night.

Fat ones

and skinny ones,

old ones and new,

fly in on brooms

to make their stew..

Each witch brings a special treat

to make this Halloween stew complete.

The witches are ready to cook.

Let's come on in and take a look.

Don't even blink!,.

Look carefully now -

This soup is too terrible to drink.

Begin with some green juice from a snake. 

Add the snake andshake, shake, shake.

A drop of blood from a lion's tail,

and a finger nail.

The bile taken from the liver of a bat at midnight,

 

makes this stew just right.

And now a yellow drop.

We cannot stop.

Heh, heh, heh,

We'll add some eyes.

Now for the surprise.

To this delicious dish,

we'll add the eyes of two dead fish. 

let’s add some catsup, just for fun.To make it good when we are done,

Then two snake eyes

and a snake from a deep dark lake.

A final thing, the last thing we do,• Add Rattlesnake poison

To finish the stew. •   Then you

know what to do.

The stew's complete.

The black cat is purring.

All it needs now is some careful stirring. 

A hot fire

makes the stew boil and bubble. 

If you listen, you'll hear it without any trouble.

The witches are pleased, and they laugh happily.

Their stew is the best, the best it could be.

They fill up their bottles and get ready for flight,

There they go on their brooms

this Halloween night.

And off in the sky, by the light of the moon,I hear them calling,

"We'll see you so-o-o-o-on!“

"We'll see you so-o-o-o-on!“

Based on an anonymous poem

• http://www.thevirtualvine.com/halloween.html the original poem, author unknown

• http://www.georgiamedia.net/pipermail/members/2008-October/000241.html recipe