Arachnids Poems - Poems about Arachnids

Careless Moments

...I should have grinned when morning came
Atop posts of gaping day, with lunatics
Humming dirges of a broken world.

I remained glued to my gloom.
Rising from the pit of hell, I held
Concupiscent...

Brexit

...I hardly brew coffee alongside the metaphor of
English mornings blended with summer’s febrile breath.
But, on this occasion, I did....
It was a stifling moment on television.
The social media was...

Intrusive Thoughts

...
Like unwelcome intruders,
it is in the stillness of the night,
intrusive thoughts come to plague us.

Like thieves sneaking in the dark, 
they come without prior information
and without w...

No Joyriders

...When parents tell their offspring 
the definition of a fling
they also include
the story that may sound crude
about the birds and the bees
and Tarzan from the trees.
Children claim that they ex...

beware of scorpions

...beware of arachnids of the worst type
I speak of scorpions, this is no hype
they have a serious sting and venom too
found in deserts and grasslands, they make you blue

a cousin of spiders, tick...

Poets Declare Life's Fragility

..."How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..."
Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales
and their harsh, buffeting fingers. 
He called them an "autumnal spell."
Autumn...the season when leaves han...

Random Animal Haikus

...a small green gecko
smiling in the palapa
watching everything

arachnids calmly 
weave intricate spiderwebs
waiting in shadows

a striped iguana 
sunbathing on the smooth rocks
watching the...

Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets

..."Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love. Love is forever and thereafter, 
even when we've...

The Fly

...NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it six feet under, as you know, so I'm posting it here. I understand t...

Spiders and Monkeys

...My sad addictive nature
Is messing with my head
But the one thing I fear most
Are spiders in my bed

No matter what I do
I push it to extremes
And when I'm fast asleep
Arachnids haunt my drea...

Of Spider Abuse, I'D Not Be Accused

...It was never my intent to collect the creepy crawlers
but I couldn't make myself swat them with a broom.
I thought they might be useful one day, on brawlers
who make trouble, like aphids on roses ...

The Webs We Weave

...Returning from the pet store,
A bag of spiders in my hand.
To cast amid my woven webs,
Of choices I don't understand.

The problems I've created,
Turning left instead of right.
I'm hoping thes...

A Bag of Spiders

...

In shadows deep where darkness hides
There lies a bag of eight-legged horror
A bag of spiders where dread resides
Creeping and crawling, causing sorrow

With nimble legs they danc...

Whitewashing the Fence

...I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of me I keep concealed, and don't talk about so much
...

Believe It Or Not

...My apartment once looked like it was decorated for halloween.
Throughout spider webs were on display easily seen, 
from every corner of every room and from beam to beam,
but these weren't props, t...

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