Compassion for all Living Creatures
...But not the interminably hopeless daddy longlegs
some say cellar spiders also know as the cranefly
lurking amidst the shower curtain then
flapping wildly all around my hat
just not first thing on...
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Categories:
longlegs, flying, insect, morning,
Form: Free verse
A Peaceful Somewhere
...As children we revelled in nature’s playground
Lying in cool grass watching clouds sail by
Sharing with playmates ‘treasures’ we’d found
Caterpillars, beetles - a dead dragonfly
Jars of black tad...
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Categories:
longlegs, childhood, encouraging, growing up,
Form: Hybronnet
Rooted Compulsive Obsession With Hair
...headland harbored primitive biota abut
mint for exotic sole terrain sustaining
sole terrain sustaining seeds, spores, spermatozoa, ova
seeds, spores, spermatozoa, ova , et cetera gut
preserv...
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Categories:
longlegs, anxiety, confusion, fun, funny,
Form: Narrative
The Modernist
...They were cheaters but they were real,
the old bitoks. You could have a measure,
drink the devotees' own red winter cherry, and contemplate
the saxifrages in the flora, or Father-longlegs,
as the...
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Categories:
longlegs, imagination, math, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cold Winds
...Cold winds from the valley of the shadow of death
creep down the nape of my neck like grandaddy longlegs....
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Categories:
longlegs, age,
Form: Epigram
Dust Bunnies and Friends
...I pulled out the couch and wrenched my back;
the dust bunnies gave me a heart attack.
A clan of arachnids under my sink
spin a web big as a skating rink.
I bend to take a peek under the bed;
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Categories:
longlegs, life, nature, me,
Form: Couplet