Spider
Spider don’t
crawl towards me
like my lover
Spider don’t
entangle me in your web
like my lover
Spider don’t
spit venom on me
like my lover
24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Spider
Spider don’t
crawl towards me
like my lover
Spider don’t
entangle me in your web
like my lover
Spider don’t
spit venom on me
like my lover
Worst poem I’ve written so far. Sigh
Not so!
Simple, yes. But the metaphor between death by spider and what lover does is strong and effective. The poem also takes that very trite old image and presents it so freshly that my focus was on the poem with no sense of cliche.