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MK Creel's avatar

This is such a beautiful poem (and prayer). Especially since the orbweaver we have been watching/ coexisting with on the deck all summer was gone this morning.

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

Fall orb weavers are one of my favorite kinds of spiders. Thank you for appreciating the experience of a good spider web and my poem.

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Cassie Premo Steele's avatar

Beautiful!

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

Thank you.

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Ric Barnett's avatar

Another lovely offering!

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

Thanks Ric. You are the bird in my tree singing while I write. I appreciate you.

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Ric Barnett's avatar

Ya know… buzzards don’t really sing. Or maybe they do? They certainly fly lyrically!

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Cathy R. Payne's avatar

Lovely, indeed!

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

Thank you, Cathy!

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Becki Clifton's avatar

Beautiful! Spiders have been weaving their way into my life more than usual since August. They’re trying to tell me something. It would be so much easier to understand if they just wrote it in their web like Charlotte.

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

If only. I would love to wake up and read my daily spider webs.

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Janisse Ray's avatar

I love so much the idea of spider webs as prayer flags. Great metaphor!

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Tricia Kyzer's avatar

I cannot unsee it. I have long wandered meadows looking at all the webs draped and wind-blown as prayer flags. I imagine a spiders prayer is mostly for a good dinner. But that web is surely an act of worship.

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Jeanne Malmgren's avatar

Absolutely beautiful!

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