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Killed With Kindness
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Killed With Kindness |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
I'm not an insect person and spiders top that list Big eyes, hairy legs, body huge compared to the rest I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder And spiders give me the creeps especially as I get older However, I have seen the beauty in their web The work made with gossamer silk so fine, food to nab The design one of a kind? All connected to space And when the dew makes the web glow on the lace The sun light shines from behind to dry the droplets As all sway gently in the breeze and Ms Spider counts her catch Love and hate, good and bad, two sides to everything I've met a few spiders in my day, some distruction did bring Some just bide their time and kill with kindness A smile ever present so the end will be pleasent Others are quiet and you never know when the web will close But dead is dead and only the "what was" now hate, grows The beauty of the web made by the ugly spider The web to catch the watcher of beauty shine brighter The dew is all gone the sun no longer shines The spider has wrapped its catch in gossamer twine |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Yeah I know what you mean....good poem! I like these lines... "But dead is dead and only the "what was" now hate, grows The beauty of the web made by the ugly spider The web to catch the watcher of beauty shine brighter The dew is all gone the sun no longer shines The spider has wrapped its catch in gossamer twine" IP |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Mother Earth, That's about as good as it gets. Wonderful write. Sy |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
ethome, thanks and would you believe this didn't start out to be like this? Seymour, thank you so much! |
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Watersign6 Senior Member
since 2001-05-25
Posts 823Hurricane,WV |
 loved this! |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
Your poetry is growing with leaps and bounds...You wove a fine web of poetry my mom. From icky spiders to the complex beauty of the web...great writing M.E.~ |
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Cerenity Member Elite
since 2000-02-16
Posts 2637Escondido-California |
Hi Mother Earth, Wonderful poetry here, the title caught my eye and what a surprize to find a poem on spiders, I am having a real prob. with them right now tis the season, most of the ones I have don't spin any beautiful webs they live under stuff and jump out at me when I move something so I loved your poem and the beauty it captured, but a chill runs up my spine at the thought. Love, Cerenity "God doesn't have to be reminded that we exist. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I agree totally. . . isn't it funny how that is? For every good, there is a bad. . . makes you wonder. . . which is what I'm doing. . . thank you. . .  -------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
hmmm do you s'pose that means, the uglier the more beautiful the work of thy hands??? nah, I'm know some pretty things and people that do some beautiful things fine poem, giving the reader an eye for all kinds of beauty, ME, you're living up to your name! |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
Watersign6, thanks BDC, thank you , my kid. I can handle the web, but the spider....no way. Cerenity, I know what you mean. I don't even like pictures of them. Thank you for the comments Sven, oh yes, I've thought of spray painting the webs in the corners of the house. Might work. VAS, beauty in the eye of the beholder. Thanks for reading |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
MotherEarth~ This is artfully woven. There is beauty in the web ... it's just those critters that inhabit it that make my skin crawl also. Great job ! ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Mother_Earth Senior Member
since 2000-11-20
Posts 13701/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan |
Boy, ain't that the truth! I feel "crawlly" after I see a web. I just know a critter is near by. Thanks and hugs, |
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