Spell Poems

For our Halloween poem, I brought in the Song of the Witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth - I then asked the students to write their own magic spell poems that contained all the proper ingredients: 1) magic words (preferably repeated for good measure!), 2) spooky ingredients, and 3) an indication of what the spell was supposed to do. This was really fun and produced a lot of great poems!

Mrs. Rodriguez
5th Grade

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Esmeralda T.

Cuba duba, diple triple,
heart of pig, a sig of jig,
Blood of witch, tooth of dragon,
Cuba duba, diple triple,
Now bubble cauldron as big as ever
Make him love forever, the spell
will never break.

Invisibility
Carlos G.

Cuba duba muba huba puba
witches' head fires red
and mummy's head
diple triple sickoo
eye of frog
king kong arms
hairy arms
blood is red
and so is
apple I will
make me invisibility
then the mission
is complete

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Jesus H.

Obra cobra
bubble pot make
head of snake,
frog's breath,
eye of bird, pig's
tail, hair of bat,
hornet's sting,
spider's legs, cat's
head, horse's mane,
blood of a girl,
teeth from boy, and
water make me monsters
to rule the world!

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Ms. Breen
3rd Grade

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Ruby H.

Bibbity bobbity boo. What I make
for my magic spell is human eyes,
dog tongue, cat's toes, U.S. flag,
a rat, one teacher, cow's tongue, horse's
lungs.

Smick Smack
Jocelyn M.

Smick smack
holla back
smick smack snick snack I'll put and
shut the oven with soup robbin with
chicken stalking socks. But if I forgot
misses shovin and put in oven with chicken
soup oven hey mrs. bear take your
hair off for me to eat and you
to eat I like meat but you
don't like
hair meat bear meat don't you like it

School Doom!
Oscar S.

Ding Doom, School is gone.
Fire burn and bubbles doom.
With a snake's tongue. In the boil
Bake with an eye of a Moses.
And a cow's ears and a gorilla's two
hands. A lizard's teeth. In the bowl
of DOOM. A vampire's blood in the
brown dark rusty bowl of DOOM.
School is canceled
for all the days
and years!!!

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Ms. McCormick
3rd Grade

The witch's doo
Isabel C.

Bubble, bubble, twist a doo, give a burn on a lost doo.
Put a cup full of blood, get a leaf with a gross caterpillar
fat, and a squishy little frog. Bubble, bubble, twist a doo,
Give a burn on a lost doo. To give to a little girl
an invisible spell. The charm of a dust.

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Ernesto C.

I was trick or treating then
I heard something what
what is that I saw three witches
making a potion the
ingredients were blood from
cow and leg and hands from
fox, brought to bubble then
fall you will not believe it.

They saw me hiding in
the bushes, they told
me dance blood and
I turned into the blood thirsty
vampire.

Rich and Witch
Marlen N.

This is my spell that I will make
make people come to be rich but get away
from the witch or else she will take
your spell so I am going to give it to
you so my potion is frogs and wigs and
hands and finally a sweet one for you
my friend abracadabra so witch get
away from it OK!

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Ms. Marfise
3rd Grade

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Isaac H.

Hocus Pocus in the Hocus
Mix the fire with an old woman
Fillet a funny bear
In the carton boil of fat
take an eye of a fox
blood of a fox and a tongue of an
older brother
Adder's fork and a blind man's
teeth
dog leg and howlet's wing
for a charm of power
like a boy in a bubble
Hocus pocus!!!!!!

Dead of night
Troy S.

First you put a head then rat skin
Then Jeffery's dirty socks. Then
a skull then a strand of hair
from a little girl and boy
then a witch's broom and a
strand of string from a mummy.
Then mix it and say Abracadabra
then you have a person you control.

Abra Cadabra
David F.

I am going to cast a spell on myself
To make me fly by myself
I will put some feathers from an eagle
In my potion to make it heal.
Some air will make it float away
And put some bubbles to go away
I will tell someone very useful to tell me
And that will be the Wright brothers
If they wanted to fly
Well so will I

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Ms. Sandoval-Johnson
3rd Grade

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Maria S.

Double, hupo make a potion to make a love
potion. Send me a pinch of love a glass of
your perfume to know you better. A cupcake for
sweetness.

So Double, hupo you're going to
have luck I'll give you the
perfume to put on and fall in
love with someone you love.

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Nadira A.

Double, double toil and trouble
double the snake and bubble the
hair of a goblin and wiggle and
giggle the spider inside you. And
a dragon scale then an eye from
a witch. And a tongue of a frog.

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Ruben E.

Alakazam with a lam
put something cool like a fan
then put a dog make it
like a log then put something
that jump's up and down more
like a frog. Alakazam with
a lam.

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Mr. K.
3rd Grade

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Damien M.

Double double
I eat a big fat snake because I'm
hungry and my stomach is growling
and humming so double double I'm
in trouble of eating my dad and
mom's snake and I can't wait
to eat it again.

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Adilene C.

Double, double you are in trouble
how do you make bubbles in the sink?
How do you make bubbles in the tub, do
you know how you got in trouble?
No, you got in trouble because you made some
bubbles in the sink and in the tub. You
know how to make bubbles and you know
how to get in trouble and you know how to
make bubbles please show me how to make
some bubbles please.

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Reymundo A.

Abracadabra snake's tongue, snake's skin
dog's heart, eyeballs, hair, blood, skull
and a dead man. My spell turns people into
bananas and bananas into people.