My Beta Spends His Free Time Doing Laps and Dreaming of Becoming a Spider

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Dark Poetry #1

My Beta Spends His Free Time Doing Laps and Dreaming of Becoming a Spider

Wendy Flora
Member

since 2000-01-11

Posts 182
Virginia

0 posted 2000-01-19 05:20 PM

There I was,
Bobbing at the bottom of the bowl
Some idle Tuesday
(maybe Sunday … hell, what do I know?)
I'd already done my rounds,
Checked out the diver -
Yep, still drowned .
Checked out my treasure chest -
Still there.
The weird girl had dropped the food
And bolted…
Same ole, same ole.
I started contemplating
Taking a nap…
Then I saw it!
This thing, this beautiful thing!
Peeked its head out from behind
The Black Box.
It was a beautiful black beauty
A glistening ruby on its belly.
I hung frozen behind the castle,
Eyeing the creature as it extended each spindly stalk,
Heading across the Flat Browness.
It moved so gracefully, gliding more than anything else.
O, that I moved with such dignity!
I dart to and fro, not like this lovely thing.
I moved right up to the Clear Hardness to peer at it.
It reached the Tall Whiteness
Extending one fin-stalk out to touch it
The, wonder of wonders!
It began moving up!
Higher and higher it went, and I
Floated up to the water's surface to watch.
When it reached the Highest Tall Point,
It began to do something…
I don't know how to describe!
A silvery strand began to descend from the thing
It looked like a drop of water
But it wasn't.
The drop of water started
Looking like a shape
It was round like my bowl,
But with lots of lines.
It was beautiful! All shimmery and new.
What I wouldn't give to be that creature!
To be able to make… to create…
Instead of just able
To swim.

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

1 posted 2000-01-19 06:18 PM

Wendy, so different yet it held be enthralled. Bravo

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
~Isis~
(Sovereign of the Spirit)

Bojopy
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since 2000-01-03

Posts 391

2 posted 2000-01-19 11:16 PM

Wendy was this a metaphor for wanting to be somthing else or maybe the inside you expressing itself. The one nobody will see. Beta I took as a another you or someone you want to be. Anyway I read this quite a few times and I really liked it. You kinda wrote a little short story. Anyway if I am even close too the mark let me know!

"Write down what you say if what you say is not written down" (Bojopy)

Wendy Flora
Member

since 2000-01-11

Posts 182
Virginia

3 posted 2000-01-20 08:52 AM

B- I am sorry to disappoint, but I am not as deep as you give me credit for.

I wrote this for a few other reasons - my fish is really cool (Cupid), I was bored out of my mind in Linguistics class, and I was remembering a painting I had seen in an art magazine entitled "Jerome Spends His Free Time Daydreaming of Being Reincarnated as a Snake." I always loved that title, I was bored, and thinking about my fish. Sorry it isn't more exciting!

-wen

Isis
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since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

4 posted 2000-01-21 02:12 AM

I'm closing this wendy as it is also posted in Open 5. People can respond to it there, only read it here.

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
~Isis~
(Sovereign of the Spirit)

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