To the Spider
Insatiable monster, you spin your fine strands,
creating your trap with abdominal glands.
You then cast your nets out into the breeze
that carries them off to the bushes and trees.
With anticipation, you wait in the center
for mosquitos or flies—whatever may enter
your gossamer trap. Then, their prospects are dire,
for one tremor of contact is all you require
to be off in a flash to put them to bed
with a cocoon of silk wrapped from bottom to head.
To the Mosquito
“I am” says the spider, as she sips out your sap,
“going to have a light lunch, and then take a nap!”
The spider pulls the silk created from liquid in its body through its spinnnerets – silk-secreting organs on its abdomen. Once the thread is started, the spider lifts its spinnerets into the breeze. It’s the breeze that is the secret to the spider’s ability to spin a web from one tree to another.
Prompt words today are anticipation, insatiable, monster, require, I am and spider.
Such lovely insatiability!
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A wonderful spider Judy 🙂 The call/response is great
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How clever!!
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brilliant
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Wonderful use of all the prompts
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Ahaa.. entirely different take on Prompt.. loved the spider / mosquito take…
https://serendipityofdreams.blogspot.com/2020/10/i-am.html
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I did another from my own perspective. Just couldn’t resist the spider one as well.
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I love them both, bet a kid would like them in one of your Kids books, but their mom and dad may not. Kids do like things like that, I know I did~!
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Spider webs are fascinating. Love the poem!
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Thanks, Jane.
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So delightfully, artfully clever!
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What happens when you awaken at 3 a.m. so just go ahead and do your blog!
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I do that too, but I wake up at 3:30 on the dot (the time when my father passed away).
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I usually wake up fifteen minutes before the alarm goes off or when the animals wake me up..whichever occurs first. I think I awakened from a dream this time, though, with a pressing need to do something that vanished seconds after I awakened.
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As my grandmother taught me, if you awaken from a dream, you have to look out the window. This way all the negative dream meaning will disappear, yet you will remember the good stuff.
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Aren’t grandmothers great????
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The best!
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Nicely done
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Thanks, Derrick.
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I love spiders and this is a great tribute to them!
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