Witchdoctors! Poem by s.zaynab kamoonpury

Witchdoctors!

Rating: 5.0


The poor child groaned
while his mother moaned
''Ah, he's possessed,
ah, he's been bewitched'',
she finally bemoaned.

To the witchdoctor she sped
and was back with murky potions
such yucky stinky lotions
those mythical concoctions

The woman obeyed the wily witchdoctor
Placed belief in that traditional healer
and the poor child still groaned
but his mama no longer moaned
After two days of treatment
and no lessening of predicament
she thought he needed
something more potent
When all it turned out to be
was a toothache!

But she would hear of no dentist
like all quacks her witchdoctor
had fooled her five senses
for his spells and his chants
held her too in a trance
Quite a weird weirdo is he
Beware the medicine-man!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Marieta Maglas 22 October 2012

Excellent and meaningful write.

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Valerie Dohren 23 October 2012

What would we do without modern medicine - good write.

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Colin Bradley 24 October 2012

excellent write, i think we all have a little superstition in us, some people just go to far

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Kevin Patrick 25 October 2012

Its scary that some people get suckered into believing things from men who spread hocus pocus crap instead of taken advice from actual professionals who work with real medicine. I don’t like dentist (or doctors) but I know in life and death Ill go to them. Anyways really great write

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Lasoaphia Quxazs 29 October 2012

This is why I tell over and over, that people should learn about the human body that they could handle many things if they come up, because the healing is within us, not with the witch doctor, or any doctor. If we learn what to eat, how to eat, when to eat, how to take care of our body parts, we do not need them. Personally I do not like doctors, dentist and all the medical people, because they are just like everyone they are business people who just want to earn big money, they want to tell others what to do, and they do not know it either. That witch doctor was same.

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M Asim Nehal 12 February 2019

A humorous poem nicely written.10

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Aimanu Begum 14 January 2013

An interesting poem.The comic seriousness with which the subject matter is dealt makes the poem a good read.

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Bri Edwards 13 December 2012

thanks for the story and somewhat-humor here. i'm glad my wife didn't take me to a witchdoctor for my diarrhea. but she did give me stinky japanese herbal stuff to swallow. thanks for your comment on motel room poem. it didn't really happen to my friend but i'm sure it has happened to some. bri

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Lasoaphia Quxazs 10 December 2012

I tell you the truth the modern doctors are not too much better either. I grow up to 15 yrs age without any doctor, but my mother had more knowledge then the doctors today. I had many pneumonia which was cured by just let me sweat then she gave me next day a bottle of wine to sip on and the third day I went to school. This happened many times and I never needed antibiotics. And n that time we were starving, no food, no many things. Even today I do not like doctors who wants to drug you up and when someone dies, they say, he was old anyway, because doctors cannot heal. Only we can be healed ourselves, if we have the faith that God shows us the way clearly what to do, because sickness comes from our thinking and the life style we pick up after. Healing is within us. Adding to this I do not like dentists either, so I am never sick and have the high hope I never need any of them. And if I do, I shall face it. You brought up a good subject on my memory lane.

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Sina Farajzadeh 17 November 2012

Hi. I read your work. It's nice and I like the narrative way of it. The meaning is also great. We should avoid superstitions.

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