- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Spider
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The red and blue thick strands converge upon
the solid centre. Tightly in my web
I bide my time and slowly suck the life
from my surroundings. Inexorably
all flock unto me, iron filings drawn
by a strong magnet – they will come to look,
to seek excitement, to fulfil their hopes
or lose themselves and find oblivion
inside. They make their mad descent
along the peril of my wires, fast or slow
as time allows, there to be swallowed up
as is my right. I smugly make my choice,
and wait and weigh, and some will be spat out –
too crammed to take all in, I know I can
be certain most of them come down again.
- COMMENTS
Ashesh9about 10 years agoHubris call it what you will-----" certain most of them will come again ......??!!!"
Chillin' , horrific destiny --- a tour de force , Dem !!
DawnJabout 10 years agosaid the spider to the fly." :) So many ways to read the web that traps unwary prey.
Cleardaynowabout 10 years agoPowerful imagery and metaphor. A little different from your other two today. Works very well and gives a lovely lurching feeling as one reads on. I do not think it is (or needs to be) clear what the spider is a metaphor for. Very strong.
Now I am not someone who likes being unpleasantly pedantic and picky on small inconsequential details. Of course not. But.
Do spiders and their webs actually operate as in your metaphor? I did not think the web drew them further in towards the centre along the wires – they just sort of stuck when they hit. Also, I thought the only reason the spider cut them loose was if they were too big & their struggles would destroy the web. If she did not need the food, she just wrapped them up & saved them for later – rather as with Frodo in the Lord of the Rings. Who cares.
greenmountaineerabout 10 years agoiron filings drawn /by a strong magnet – they will come to look,
Is outstanding because it says so much.
