Crimson’s Creative Challenge
On Halloween Night the wicker spider weaves… a sticky web to catch the spirits on the breeze: Wicked imps and sneaky sprites, malevolent boggarts that give us a fright, streaming through the forest trees, rustling and hissing as they kick at the leaves. The spider entangles these in her thread, rolls and cocoons them, drapes and festoons them, and on the branches leaves them dead
Written for Crimson’s Creative Challenge
crispina kemp 
Nice one! Crispina….OR not so nice, it’s kinda creepy. But that’s probably what you were going for SO it IS nice in a creepy sorta way. So NICE! 🕷🕸🕷🕸🕷😊
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Thank, Jen. I enjoyed writing it. Had fun.
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You’re welcome. My pleasure 😊💜🌻🕷
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🙂
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OMG, it’s creepy.
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It’s Halloween!
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😂👻
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Good one! Very apt.
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Thanks, Sadje. It was fun to write
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🥰
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The words spiral until they are in the end caught dead, in the sticky spiders web. Ooo so nicely done!
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I thank you, J. I resisted the usual poem layout. I wanted to lead the reader into my web.
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Well-crafted! Just enough darkness to make the prose work.
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Thanks. And so much fun! 🙂
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Wonderfully appropriate for today.
Well done, my friend.
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Thank you, Dale. Knocked sideways by yours. 🙂
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Stop!
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Aw, really? Okay. 🙂
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hahaha!
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Nice spooky poem! 😀
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Thank you. Have to do it every so often 🙂
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“ooooooooooo” Great one for today!
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Thanks, Susan. I was holding onto it for today 🙂
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Imaginative.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Realistically poetically creepy!
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Thanks, appreciated 🙂
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Love this Crispina – perfectly spooky and mischievious for Halloween.
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Thanks. I enjoyed writing it. And NOT using the usual poem format. It had to be laid out as prose to really work
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Spooky! Spiders are one of my greatest nightmare fuels.
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As they are with many a person. The primate as a family is hardwired for fear of spiders and snakes. I’m okay on spiders, but those other things…. yea, nasty.
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I’m fine about snakes, maybe because I’m pretty good at killing them.
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Maybe that’s why I don’t mind spiders. My experience with snakes is a quick withdrawal of foot as it hisses at me. Yikes. So we learn to watch where we’re walking. Not always easy to remember when lining up a shot.
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Haha, true. I remember once when I was walking with a friend to a thermodynamics exam and a copperhead (or a ratsnake, didn’t get close enough to examine the scale patterns) crossed our path. I looked at my friend and asked, “Is this exam going to be bad enough to prefer getting bit?”
(we ended up just walking on by, btw).
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Well, we only have one baddy in this country. The adder. We’re told it’s bite hasn’t killed anyone in… so many years. But that’s not cos it’s not lethal. It’s cos all hospitals carry the antidote, and everyone knows to seek immediate attention. Fine. Except if you’re walking miles from transport, as I often am.
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Stay safe! Though I bet you always know where you’re going. 🙂
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I know where they’re most likely to be, that’s for certain. They don’t like traffic, and they especially don’t like tractors.
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Excellent piece of writing Crispina.
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Thank you, Michael. I enjoyed the composing 🙂
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