Ode to My Spider Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 7:42pm on FB
If you haven't read my note entitled "What Bugs Me", then this note may not mean as much to you, since it is the sequel. (Go back & read "What Bugs Me" & the comments, then come back & read this note.)
Well, the good weather has gone. We actually had a bit of snow yesterday-not much-it didn't stick. (THIS IS NORTH CAROLINA!!! WE'RE NOT 'SPOSE TO HAVE SNOW!)
I checked on my spider last Monday (Nov.10th) & she was still alive & movin' slow.
Today (Nov. 19th) I checked on her--she's gone. It was her time. She had a long & happy life, as far as spiders go. She caught & ate all the beetles & even some large bees on the rose bush, & she had babies. Maybe one of her descendants will roam the rose bush next spring. I know I'll be checking under every bud before I clip, from now on.
~Ode to My Spider~
Translucent green, her delicate frame
played silk into a deadly game
around winged insects as they sipped
unmindfull that chelicerae dipped
into their life, and drained it on
a crimson rose of perfection,
until with time her color shifted--
brown of death,
farewell, arachnid.
Comments Posted on FB:
Bethany Kaye at 1:27am November 20
Ohhhhhh - this is so sweet, Pam! I know you don't like "bugs," but it looks like you came to love this one. Such a profound message for us all, on so many levels. xoxoxoxoxo - Bethany
Diana Lynn Scott at 3:15pm November 20
SOooooo...Now you're a poet too!please write a book while you're waiting for your screen play to be chosen!
Patti Fife at 6:48pm December 16
Next year get a spider "cam" on your rose bush so we can have 24 hour updates!!!
