Cobweb Complexities

Women are like spiders.....

Cobweb Complexities

Break bread with me she implored

as I walked into her web architecture.

The proteinaceous silk from black spinnerets

sticking me fast and holding me ready prey.

You might see me stupid for not seeing

the danger ahead but her complex,

tangled three-dimensional theridiidae trap

belied her Devonian transition from water

to land and the protection of her body

and her eggs.

I saw no threat and indeed did not

fear a huntress had invited me to dine.

But she expended little energy in her

quest and her aerial net had me ensnared

and at her mercy as the sticky strands

entangled my heart.

 

31/10/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[The Black Warrior]

We entangle man’s hears,
We make them go mad
Do things which they thought to never do…Love
They slowly, patiently
Become our puppets
Our lovers to please
Then just with a kiss
They fall on their knees. LOL
Just kidding! :P
But this is a very interesting poem.
I like it!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You made me smile Suk as you spun your web. Many thanks.

[The Black Warrior]

Your welcome, but I was only kidding though, just want to make that clear LOL :)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You may jest dear lady but you do have the power lol!

[The Black Warrior]

hahahaha maybe, well if I do I never knew until now lol!

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A highly descriptive piece that makes one yearn for the moments in between

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Thomas.

[Lyn Anderson]

I read another of yours that made that analogy. This one, however, is much more technical with its terminology. The spider was waiting, and she sapped the love, bit by bit.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed it did some time ago. Both came from the feelings that provoked the images that spun the anology. Many thanks.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Oh my my the web we weave! LOL I myself don't think I fall into the class Arachnid, though I do have a tendency to bite! :) Happy Haunting!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Nice to hear a woman who does not want to be cast as a web builder lol! Many thanks Queenie.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i want to be caught in this web...gladly...

we can usually tell if it's a black widow or not.

i read this and then remember david hedison in "the fly"...at the end, caught in the web yelling in his little fly voice..."help me, help me"

if this spider caught me...not sure i would be yelling that.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha Jacob we both see little danger in the lair of the femme fatale. We are innocents to the slaughter. Many thanks.

[Lydia Shutter]

Those spider webs can seem pretty damn inviting.....and the unsuspecting fly will enter without a care. Danger, Will Robinson! Good metaphor here. Lydi**

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Indeed they can Lydi. Many thanks.