Witch Woman

Witch Woman

I hear your voice low in the dusk
Like the notes of the harp player
That carve the still air
Into a sensuous and subtle imagery of sound

And my senses are drowned
By the scent of oleander and the musk
Of the datura dimly shining in the dark,
While your voice troubles the still air,

And I recall
An ancient garden and a secret call
And your slant eyes and your red hair
Engender dreams of days beyond despair

And under your sorcery I fare forth
To fabulous lands and meadows green with Spring
And caught on the gossamer web of evening
I behold incredible things no poet ever told.

 

Songs for the Witch Woman and other Poetry

The following poems are from “Songs for the Witch Woman”, a collection of poems Parsons wrote to his wife Marjorie Cameron from 1949-1952, and Cameron continued to illustrate after his death. The collection was published in 1975, and again in 2014.

Included in the Archive’s collection of Parsons’ poems are two others, I Height Don Quixote, I Live on Peyote, published in the Agape Lodge’s publication “The Oriflamme” Vol 1, Iss 1, Feb 21, 1943; and the unpublished poem The Horned Moon.

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Songs for the Witch Woman:

Witch Woman

Night

The Fool

Pan

Stonehenge

The Garden

Danse

Sorcerer

Under the Hill

Narcissus

Aztec

Sabat

Punch

Merlin

Aradia

Autumn

Farewell, Unknown

Passion Flowers

King David

Neurosis

Eden

Harpocrates

Lesbians

Night Song

The Witch House

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Other Poems:

I Height Don Quixote, I Live on Peyote

Horned Moon