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Spiders

By Katanga

11 September 2008

A feeble experiment - 10 lines, building from one syllable to ten syllables.

A true story - the other night I had to drive to work to de-activate the burglar alarm where I work at 3.30 a.m.

The engineer came and diagnosed that a tiny spider had wandered in front of the wretched beam, detonating chaos.

A bit of annoyed fun!

Cheers!

John X

Spiders

Me?
I hate
spiders. . . . and
not because they
crawl upon my skin,
but because one came in,
chose to take a morning walk,
to shatter my profound deep sleep.
Incy-Wincy spider meant no harm,
when she set off my bloody school's alarm.

Reviews

Rural Pumps
Written by patterjack (1435 comments posted) 10th September 2008

In the Oz bush at Kempsey , my big Lowara pump down at the dam sometimes would not start--because of spiders as in your case.

But then it would often roar into life -- hurling small bodies and clay everywhere -- since the mudwasps loved to build in it and deposit small corpses therein

It was a case of Everybody duck !!

patterjack

Hilarious review!
Written by Katanga (1515 comments posted) 10th September 2008

Thank you Brian!

I think your review above justifies a piece in its own right!

Really!

Beers!

And now sleep . . .

John X

Written by Robru (272 comments posted) 11th September 2008

John, Spiders are a necessary nuisance. I love your spiders as I can see the little sweeties in the alarm system. I can relate to this episode very well. I was once the maintenance man for about 70 schools spread out over 100 x 50 miles. And yes, I did have those sort of happenings. @0 years later it will be a funny memory.
I quite like the structure of the poem too. !0 lines, 1 syllable to 10 syllables. Very good.

Cheers

Bob

Written by grace (173 comments posted) 11th September 2008

The spider inspired an excellent poem if nothing else, let's hope they've moved on.

No wonder you were tired,

sleep well, Pamx

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