Trapped in her own web
she has long since ceased to spin;
time spins around her.
As she unravels,
a breeze plucks at straining threads,
the web yet to fail.
I ask, who failed whom?
Who suffers, and who prevails?
Spider wonders, too.
Spider
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Tag Archives: 5-7-5
diversity
What is in a name?
Why, red flowering currant,
are your blossoms white?
Elon’s Devil’s Fingers
Oh, Dyssie, suss out:
Bored gods gamble with your life.
Find allies. Fight back.
Elon’s devil’s fingers
Devil’s fingers (Clathrus archeri ), also known as octopus stinkhorn, is a fungus which has a global distribution. In maturity it smells like putrid flesh.
“Dawn’s rosy fingers” is a recurring metaphor in Homer’s works, like The Odyssey, where it signifies the beginning of a new day and the start of events.
first sighting
forest’s sodden duff
cedes to fragile trillium
spring will not be stayed
Resolutions
winter resolve reigns
by springtime just a drizzle
summer cedes to drought
Youthlessness
Oh, to yet be young
I tire at the thought of it
I’ll sit and look wise
literal
metaphors be damned
alone in the faceless crowd, we
weep behind our masks
AtoZ: K is for Kitty
keen the captor’s prey
killed by kerf of unsheathed claw
kitty’s catnip slayed
K is for Kitty
#AtoZChallenge: 26 posts in April, topics to proceed alphabetically. Creating a theme for one’s blog challenge is optional. My theme for 2021: a three line alliteration each day (5-7-5, haiku-ish) with the first letter of each line the same as the letter of the day.
AtoZ: J ~ Railroaded
justice jettisoned;
jaded judge, jury, jailers;
jumpsuit, jammed in jail.
J is for Jailed
#AtoZChallenge: 26 posts in April, topics to proceed alphabetically. Creating a theme for one’s blog challenge is optional. My theme for 2021: a three line alliteration each day (5-7-5, haiku-ish) with the first letter of each line the same as the letter of the day.
AtoZ: I ~ Childhood Playmates
imaginary
individuals only
I identify
I is for Imagination
#AtoZChallenge: 26 posts in April, topics to proceed alphabetically. Creating a theme for one’s blog challenge is optional. My theme for 2021: a three line alliteration each day (5-7-5, haiku-ish) with the first letter of each line the same as the letter of the day.
What Rhymes with Stanza? 