Silk

December 23, 2017December 23, 2017

Ethereal Notes

Melodious Notes

The piano notes not my own

floating ethereal around me

speak of lullabies played

soothing tiny souls to sleeping

vestiges of the golden moments

when a youthful heart dreamt being

bright-colored fancied whimsy

silver spun silken blossoms

to be woven into a shining dawn

in sun rays spilling rainbows

resplendent new and undone

for as the notes dance before me

the hours softly melting away

reiterates life’s fluctuations

not crafted to make my own

Image taken from Public Domain Pictures and digitally altered by myself.

June 8, 2012

Thread of Life

she is gone and like
the spider web’s
silken thread
becoming unraveled

by a brief gust
of wind you insert
needle with thread
continuing to

weave life into
patterns of loving
understanding and
forgiveness of

why you could not
be there
when she left
to say good-bye

Renee Espriu

August 18, 2011

Spider Whimsy

Do you hear the whimsy doodle
from the spider in her lair
Do you know what she is waiting
for on silken threads as hair

Do you see her plump round belly
as she preens in silent rapture
Do you detect how important for
her to make an ultimate capture

She is making ready her silken
lair for many more to join her
She is hoping to feed them all
when an insect is dinner fanfare

Do you hear the whimsy doodle
from the spider in her lair
Do you know what she is waiting
for on silken threads as hair

She waits for all her little ones
bitty spiders to be coming soon
She waits to feed them dinner fare
beneath the night-light moon

This is my first piece on my site that will hopefully entertain children. I had thought to make a separate place for children’s pieces but not sure how I might do that yet. I use to write years ago for my children and those pieces are gone. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it.