Dew Drops In A Spider Web Poem by Ben Gieske

A newborn baby’s eyes
amazes the mother’s eyes

What a spider web captures
all in a buzz
or stealthily seep by seep
from the weeping darkness
creeping away from the sun’s
intrusion of arrow-tip rays,

Enslaving in its silky threads
a dewy jewel in wetted bed
so virgin and milkfree
clinging precariously,

Its wetness momentarily
stalled on its journey to mother sea
beyond the hub of the web’s
radiating hints of galactic loci.

Gravity tugging the silks,
challenging the web’s right to seize
and tease in captivity
this jewel in a mother’s eye

As quick as the click of a camera
this collected sea
tides into a flooding wall,
cascading,
falling free.

Published by Story Teller Magazine in April/May/June 08 issue.