[stylist] Spiders

[Lynda Lambert]

Hi Bill,
It is nice the way so many of us have responded to the idea of "spider."  I 
have to say I really appreciate all of Nature. And, when you speak of birds, 
my mind goes back to the years when I had all our children at home, six of 
them, and well as a number of other children who stayed with us over the 
years. During those years, I also had 50 birds - a Blue and Gold Macaw, Two 
Red bellied Macaws, an African Grey, and many small precious birds that I 
loved. Bird cage cleaning was a daily activity.  I belonged to the 
Pittsburgh Area Cage Bird Society, and I wrote articles about birds. These 
days, we no longer have any children about the place, no more birds, but we 
do have 5 cats and 2 dogs as part of our family "pack."  I do love hearing 
about the birds, and spiders, and any other little creature.  Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William L Houts" <lukaeon at gmail.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Spiders


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> HI Linda,
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> Thanks for taking the time to read this one.  I know everyone has 
> threescore emails coming in every half hour, so your notice is truly 
> valued.  As for birds, I'd love to have a parrot and teach it lines from 
> Auden ("...a crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead") 
> but a medical condition makes that untenable, but stories of other folks's 
> birds always lightens my mood, which his usually fairly bright anyway.
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> On 3/16/2014 7:31 AM, Lynda Lambert wrote:
>> OH, this poem about the spider is really nice!
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>> Yes, my friend always referred to Doris' senior hairs as "Feathers." 
>> When Doris got to be in her old age, she became more cranky and the 
>> visits to the school children stopped as she no longer liked to have 
>> anyone touching her feathers.
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>> Lynda
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atty Rose" <attyrose at cox.net>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:09 AM
>> Subject: [stylist] Spiders
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>>> We have a tarantula named Azreilla. She is a rose hair and very big. 
>>> Just for those who don't know, tarantulas have hair on them and when I 
>>> could see I thought it looked course, but after touching it I can tell 
>>> you it is soft like a chick.
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>>> And they web. She eats crickets from the pet store.
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>>> Write on,
>>> Atty
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>>> Thought i'd share. LOL
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William L Houts" <lukaeon at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 8:57 AM
>>> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "A Spider"
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>>>> Hi Peeps,
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>>>> Here's something I just dug up from one of my older, creakier poetry 
>>>> folders.  I wrote this sometime in my twenties, and I think it still 
>>>> works.  OH hell, why don't I just say it:  I'm in love with this poem 
>>>> and wouldn't edit it dfor a mint, LOL. I've written a few poems about 
>>>> spiders, as I love the hideous little monsters somewhat, but this is 
>>>> probably the best. Comments welcome, as always.
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>>>> --Bill
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>>>> Sprawled in my favorite chair,
>>>> I  found a spider striving down
>>>> my sweater's cotton roads;
>>>> uncruel, I meant to brush her
>>>> from my collar to the floor,
>>>> but a brainless finger crushed her.
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>>>> Drunk on ideas the size of salt,
>>>> her witty legs, those marvelous legs
>>>> had skittered her down the wall
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>>>> to vistas of heaving; the ebb
>>>> and flo of my breathing.
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>>>> A ruined husk.  I didn't reckon
>>>> the difference between our lives,
>>>> the stellar gap between a spider's
>>>> life and mine:  and this was my task,
>>>> for if it exists, a reckoning spider is
>>>> truly a monster, a foe to be fought.
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>>>> But she was no monster,
>>>> and I was only a man in a chair,
>>>> reading, with no ill intent:  and yet
>>>> that tiny walker died, a small
>>>> color in the world gone to gray
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>>>> at my blameless finger's end.
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>>>> "Let's drink a toast now to who we really are."
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>>>>           --Jane Siberry
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