This is from my latest book, To Be a Witch. This is in verse, like almost all my previous books, but it has a consistent and much longer story. This book is aimed at children ages 7+.
When the nights are drawing in,
And the sun lays down its head,
The witches start to fly about
-you’re sleeping in your bed
Did you know that witches
are there, behind the hill?
It’s autumn, they are gaining strength
to work for good or ill!
When the nights are drawing in,
And the sun lays down its head,
The witches start to fly about
-you’re sleeping in your bed.
For autumn is the witches’ time,
it soon is Hallowe’en.
So witches practise all their tricks,
-invisible, unseen!
A baby witch was born one day,
not seven years ago.
Her name was Lilith Countercross,
her skin as white as snow.
She has not been allowed before
to join the witches’ Dance.
All Hallow’s Eve, that is the time,
and now, this is her chance!
A young witch can’t fly very well
they learn in witches’ school.
They have to go like you each day
-it simply is the rule!
Lilith did this like the rest,
she quite enjoyed the class.
She worked so hard at flying tests
-she wanted so to pass!
And pass she did, dear Lilith.
She smiled a witchy grin,
her teeth were white and pointy sharp,
her black hair thick, not thin!
The grownup witches roared and cheered
“You’re flying in our group!
We’ll whizz and fizz, our cats will shriek…
Such fun, we’ll loop the loop!
Now to be truly one of us
you must pass our test.
To start off as a real live witch,
you simply must be best!
Either you must make a spell
better than we’ve got,
or find a human sacrifice
we might use or might not!
If you should see a window,
a window open wide,
a little child tucked up in bed,
just take it for a ride!
Then throw it and we’ll catch it,
by leg, or by the arm.
The child will think we’re going to miss,
kill it, do it harm!”
But witches never ever miss
upon their Night of Power.
This is the night they’ve waited for
-it is the Witches’ Hour!
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