spiders create
architectural marvels,
if left alone
Copyright 2018 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: If left alone, what would each of us create?
Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Laura Shovan for hosting. Laura is the incredibly talented author of Takedown, a wonderful book about wrestling and friendship. She also provides amazing and insightful editing services through the Writer’s Ally.
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I love everything about this post! I was smiling when I read the title and clicked over, wowed by the design and beauty, charmed by your words, and gobsmacked by your closing question. Teaching is such a dance between what I give to my students and what I manage to get started enough so that I can LEAVE THEM ALONE and let them discover and create!
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Yes, as a teacher occasionally myself, usually my students end up teaching me. Even spiders have something to teach. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to stay open to learning.
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With frosting! 🙂
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Thanks for the shout out, Brenda, and for joining in on Poetry Friday. I can’t help it. After reading your haiku and seeing your photograph, I wonder what a spider web donut would taste like?!
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LOL Like clouds and thyme. 🙂
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Writers must be observers and collectors Brenda. you have done great work here. Simple pleasures and treasures await the observant eye. Your words sit neatly with the picture. The beauty of nature has been seen and shared. Spideriffic!
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I like that, spideriffic! Nature is glorious.
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They have artistic wisdom beyond what we mere humans appreciate — that’s for sure. What a fabulous photo capture.
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Thanks, Linda. Only the rain allowed me to find it.
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Love your discovery, Brenda & your captured comment! Keep sharing!
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Thanks, Linda. Winter is a harder time for inspiration. But I’m trying!
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Wow, that’s quite a web! Love that you dubbed it a donut . . . 🙂
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I suppose I could have used bagel. I must have been hungry. 😉
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Great shot, Brenda! What an innovator 🙂
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I’ve never seen another web like it. So symmetrical and intentional.
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Wow, it’s like a portal to another world… if left alone we’d create happiness joy love beauty! The trick (or life’s work) is learning to do all that with the zillion interruptions life offers. xo
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So true! And you do create happiness joy love beauty. The trick is focusing on that rather than the cast-downers.
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Spiders are certainly marvelous creators. I don’t know if I am safe to be left alone to create. I might paint the town red. Or be like Harold with his purple crayon.
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I’ve always envied Harold. I try to be Harold with words.
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🙂 🙂
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ooh, this spider created an open window into its world. if left to my own devices, i would create a book of words and pictures that show who i am.
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Isn’t that what all authors want to do? I just blend fiction and nonfiction, and I’m the only one who knows which is which. I can imagine you writing a hilarious book. Why not begin it?
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I plan to this year )
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Very nice picture and for sure they look like doughnuts, Brenda.
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It made me happy I hadn’t weeded, as it left the spider undisturbed for weeks.
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Great Brenda.
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That’s one cool spider web-incredible what they create and your haiku just glides right along seamlessly… Love your flip-flop comment too,
“what would each of us create?” Thanks Brenda!
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I’ve always wanted a house with a courtyard and atrium. I never imagined it round, but this spider did.
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Nice capture Brenda. Spider webs always remind me of the book, Charlotte’s Web.
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Me, too. The best book about spiders…
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I’ve been missing spiderwebs lately. Those spiders are amazing architects!
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They can build anywhere, can’t they?
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You baited me with donut and then caught me in your web. 😉
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
NO “DUNKIN” ALLOWED!!!
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LOL
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It’s really great pic. How beautiful artist the nature is.
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I agree, and thanks!
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