Creativity’s
an eight-legged
life-sized terror,
has me cornered –
those menacing eyes
and crushing mandibles
paralyzingly frightful –
about to be consumed,
I throw her some cheese.

Creativity’s
an eight-legged
life-sized terror,
has me cornered –
those menacing eyes
and crushing mandibles
paralyzingly frightful –
about to be consumed,
I throw her some cheese.
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Interesting take on Creativity! And ties in to my past fear of the eight legged.
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It was a dream and the spiders were life-sized – a nightmare for sure.
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Oh, that we could toss a bite of cheese at ALL our problems! 🙂
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Isn’t cheese a cure-all. Personally, I have to avoid it, lol.
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That’s a shame that you must avoid it–I’m a large round rat, particularly favor Smoked Gouda!
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So good. It just doesn’t like me.
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That’s the same as me and chocolate, a serious Bummer!
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That is a bummer!
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Sometimes I indulge anyway 🙂
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Me too, lol
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We gotta live, right?! 🙂
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Exactly!
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Hurray, it’s the weekend! Do you like date bars? I’m thinking of adapting my recipe for dried apricots, making a pan tomorrow 🙂
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Ohhh….sounds so good.
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🙂 🙂
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Love it-reminds me of Bukowski (not sure how you’ll take that).
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I’ll take any compliment I can get! Thanks Mike. Personally, I love it when my edgy side emerges.
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Oh, to be caught in web of life….. a waste of tasty cheese……
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lol, thank Ivor.
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oh i did not know they liked cheese? does it stick to the web?
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This is purely metaphorical. No idea about spiders, lol.
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you had me interested there! in the Secret Life of Bees, they used marshmallows to lure some bugs out of hiding …i forget now but your poem reminded me of that!
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I love that book!
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Awesome 😉
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Thank you!
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Did you really giver her cheese. Yuck…I don’t like anything that crawls like that.
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This was my dream last night – it worked there, lol.
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Dream….lol
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Yikes! I didn’t know they likes cheese 🙂
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Ha ha ha – me neither.
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