A Silken Purpose
A Silken Purpose
A spider curled outside my window,
Hammered by whirlwinds of indifference.
His livelihood unravelled;
Numb earnings plummet to the ground.
And now, as he slowly, wordlessly,
surveys,
From many eyes, righteous to protest,
He covers his mouth and spins, while the sun sets in the west.
-the bard 03/11/05
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Line 2: Whirlwinds of indifference speaks about how the winds which destroy the spider's web don't care at all about the spider. Is this my experience? Are the events in my life a product of indifference?
Line 4: Numb earnings compares the things of the world that man chases after with a spider's meal for the day. Both are numb. Worldy things are numb in comparison with Godly things.
Line 6: The spider surveys his broken life as it were. This is an intense moment, like the calm before the storm. Will the spider give up, protest, freak out?
Line 7: Reference to Job of the Bible. Everything ripped from him, Job still praises God's name, though he has done nothing wrong.
Line 8: Job's response to God. Our response to God.
-the bard
A spider curled outside my window,
Hammered by whirlwinds of indifference.
His livelihood unravelled;
Numb earnings plummet to the ground.
And now, as he slowly, wordlessly,
surveys,
From many eyes, righteous to protest,
He covers his mouth and spins, while the sun sets in the west.
-the bard 03/11/05
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Line 2: Whirlwinds of indifference speaks about how the winds which destroy the spider's web don't care at all about the spider. Is this my experience? Are the events in my life a product of indifference?
Line 4: Numb earnings compares the things of the world that man chases after with a spider's meal for the day. Both are numb. Worldy things are numb in comparison with Godly things.
Line 6: The spider surveys his broken life as it were. This is an intense moment, like the calm before the storm. Will the spider give up, protest, freak out?
Line 7: Reference to Job of the Bible. Everything ripped from him, Job still praises God's name, though he has done nothing wrong.
Line 8: Job's response to God. Our response to God.
-the bard
posted by Todd at 8:47 PM
2 Comments:
Nice poem, Todd. I wrote a poem once.
my favourite image is that of the spider covering his mouth. Especially because it is preceded by 'from many eyes'. Spiders don't cover their mouths, it's a human action, and a powerful image. It comes on the heels of the 'from many eyes' image though, which is very spiderlike.
The juxtaposition of sorts is very cool.
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