A Good Year For Spiders — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Look,
There’s a spider.
A good year for spiders
Or so and so seems,
Incessantly weaving
Such gossamer schemes.
Should make one wonder
What blueprint within
Instinctively causes
The spider to spend?
Look, look how lovely
The glim to the sun
Is gracing with highlights
The web being spun.
Dear god of all spiders
Please hear this small prayer,
Is spidery heaven
One infinite snear?
Will, there be gravity
So food will fall by?
Have you ever tasted
A bluebottle fly?
Never had scorpion
Do they have a god?
Tics you might fancy
The flavor is odd.
But not quite as odd
As gregarious nats
Who fly into trouble
When ravaness bats,
Senses all heightened
Go Dracula stark
And quick eat up tasty
Lost nats in the dark.
I wonder if spiders
would like eating mites,
Those juicy small monsters
Who louse up the night
Of asthmatic sleepers
Allergic to waste.
Spiders might like mites
and get used to the taste.
Spiders do what they must
In spidering nets,
Intrinsic insiders
Who cover all bets
With polymer silver
That they gossamer spend
And wait, and wait
For some dinner
That soon may drop in.
Yea, a good year for spiders.
Wonder if spiders
Ever get the blues,
Do yous?
— Ken Nordine
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The more the merrier! Great pic! 🙂
Arrrrrrrrrrgh 😱
Loved the poem and the photo, Kenne.
Reblogged this on Becoming is Superior to Being and commented:
When I captured this image in October 2018, what came to mind was Ken Nordine’s word jazz, “A Good Year for Spiders.” In the fifties and sixties, I often listen to his late-night word jazz radio show. I loved his voice and, over the years, have bought some of his albums. Today, I learned that he died in February 2019, only months after the original blog posting. “Ken Nordine was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of word jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers.” Wikipedia
— kenne