Daddy Long Legs
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Such a magnificent creature you are,
Resplendent, splayed somnolent on the tile
Just outside my bathroom stall. So relaxed,
Poised in repose in the vertical, placed
As a sculpture, a thing of beauty. See
The space you require, the luxuriant
Amount of real estate you occupy.
Which is your head and which is your body?
They say you bite. I cannot testify
Whether you do or don’t, but you look like
Someone to avoid, no offense. Your long
Angular legs look alien somehow,
Somehow angry or sinister. Yet here
You relax, and probably enjoying
A moist environment, rest, contemplate
In insectile thought the nature of life,
Present state of being, or who knows what?
Inside as much a mystery as out.
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Thanks so much, Rednckwmn! There's stuff everywhere to write about! :)
yup, there sure is. i gotta go make lunch, but i hope to be back to read more soon!
Just coming from Cindy's hub and reading about her battle with ants and termites...and here you tell a marvelous poem about the daddy long leg spider!
Have a good lunch, R!
Hi, AIDY! Coincidence? Is there such a thing?
bugs just freak me out, so it was like 'triple whammy' when I got to your poem, I am like, omg...
-looking for a can of RAID-
Ha ha. Poor little fella. I must have smashed twenty or thirty of them while camping last week. Our teenage daughter feels the same way you do about the critters.
did you take the picture with your new camera..... be careful when you go to bed tonight, they bite unbelievers.... people who do not believe they can hurt, and they can also read........ did your teenage daughter go camping..... i would have been looking for a hotel if i was her, and just left daddy in the tent, or on his bike, or playing his instrument..... no tent for me.
A lot of people don't like these guys. I was the daddy long legs police for my daughter. She insisted I brush them away without killing them whenever possible. Very humane, she is. :)
I guess it's a good thing she doesn't have a credit card!
should have just crushed them when she was not looking.... now how does a credit card fit in to that, i thought about it long and hard, give me a clue
If she had a credit card, she might have called a cab and gone to a hotel. I would have been upset.
ha ha ha ..... she could have borrowed yours, and stayed in the most expensive one ......
I would have had my revenge. While she was out, I would have eaten ALL the s'mores.
this is just great, my favorite work of yours. very descriptive and insightful.
Thank you, Stolas. This cartoon character is very grateful for your praise :)
Well now, this is a good one. I like your style Jess. Did you know these little guys are one of the most deadly biters in the world? Yes, I felt one nibbling on my leg one day last summer, first time ever. Just a lil tingle. I killed it. They possess a very powerful venom and lucky for us it's fangs are too short to puncture our skin deep enough to effect any damage. Harvester is the correct name I believe.
Wow. Now I know! Thank you, Ralwus!
Once I saw on the side of my house, what seemed to be about 100 daddy long legs... they were all "bouncing". I would like to know what that meant. Only saw that once... never heard of that before.
My girls say that if you kill a daddy long legs, it will bring rain.
Maybe it was some kind of mating dance? I don't know much about how they get it done, what they eat, or anything. But they sure are strange-looking. Thanks, Felicia!
The poor mistreated spider,
at least in my home finds haven,
I use a tool that far less cruel
then most folks are behaving,
it has about two hundred strands
of plastic that expand,
then close to gether gently
in a bug removal plan,
it cradles fragile legs
between the filiments and then,
you pull the trigger and release,
them back outside again.
Tis not good to start killing things,
even though they might be small,
our world should live in harmony,
a place that's shared by all.
Course if misquitoes or a tick
should feed upon my skin,
I will not be as kind to this,
my angst will do them in.
It's my self preservation,
that determines what survives,
as long as they don't crawl on me,
I grant them healthy lives.
LOL~~~~MFB III -Welcome to my fan club fellow poet.
I thought I would come bug you a bit....and join yours.
Wow! Thanks so much MFB! Two poems for the price of one!
Jess - I had missed this one earlier. It is funny, but missing it earlier did not make me sad. Finding it made me happy. :-)))
How very philosophical, Gus!
Enjoyed this one very much.
Thanks. It's fun in a creepy way :)
I love spiders, Daddy Long Legs are fascinating subject. I've always picked them up and played with them since a child. Thanks and Peace :)
I don't usually touch them, but I like to see them. Last spring the wall behind my work was covered with big tiger spiders walking up and down the wall. It was pretty awesome.
hey look at that, the first hub of yours I read, and I was the first commentor. Why are some of yor hubs missing now?
OK, and "I love my Bike"? Thanks for the link, I can't add favourites, so please don't delete this hub.
"I Love My Bike" was deleted by me and not saved. HubPages flagged it as lewd.
I can leave this here, like a lighthouse or buoy.
bouy is good.
lewd, what a stupid word.
As always :D
rednckwmn 2 years ago
hey, I really liked this.what a neat thing write about!