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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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The Spider Surely you’ve watched a spider easily spin its web? But have you ever seen it get ready for it to go to bed? In the early dawning, before the morning sky is pink that busy spider begins to unweave it’s web, and I think she absolutely knows what she’s about, gathering in her threads leaving no trace of her nightly domicile before she’s gone abed. Except, you might know, for the leader line, that tensile of solid spider-rod, thicker than most, usually attached from a point north to a point southern, at which, come night, the spider comes back wherein she spins her nocturnal lacework for her evening meal and I think if spiders could but speak, of her work she’d boast. Nature is amazing, don’t you ever wonder that while we sleep, the spider sits and ponders. ©KRJ 21-Aug-99 ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
I never knew this about spiders - how informative! And so well written - a nature lesson in a poem...! Spiders are great - this is gross, but I used to catch flies - when I was a kid - in jars, and feed them to spiders. Urrrgh.  |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Sunshine, Is this poetic licence or true. I never heard of a spider unweaving a web. However the poem was lovely. The only spider I remember is the one that ran up the water spout. HAHAHA. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Oh dear - please tell me there IS actually a species of spider that does this or I'm going to feel REALLY stupid...! |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
To Severn and Seymour I watched the spider just this 'morn, not the first time the web was torn down by the spider at dawn her web, in moments, was done and gone. What a cleanly creature, she gave me this thought to write poetry, and her web, I can now not see but tomorrow, before dawn, she'll again be. ©KRJ 21-Aug-99 |
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poetFemmeFatale Member Elite
since 1999-07-25
Posts 2646Arkansas |
The day I see a spider sit & ponder, is the day I'm gonna toss in the towel for humanity !! LOL What a brilliant little piece of work, darling !! ------------------ - poet FemmeFatale "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone..." Henrik Ibsen (1826-1906) Norwegian dramatist lyric poet |
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Sue Member
since 1999-08-04
Posts 383France |
I wish the spiders in my house unwove their webs! Nice poem, though. |
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TomMark Member Elite
since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133LA,CA |
very lovely. This is a poem for children. |
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