# Impromptu Poetry Jam

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 20, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impromptu-poetry-jam/396663 "2007-03-20T02:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impromptu-poetry-jam/396663/1 "2007-03-20T02:39:57Z")

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Biongiorrno all,  
Share your poetry 🙂 I’m making the following poem up from scratch, although parts have been jingling in my head a while:  
Agape  
A web of silk, of glistening gossamer  
blown over by the faintest breeze  
fragile strength from a spindly spider  
growing gracefully with the dusks and dawns

At first the net cannot hold  
but the tiniest insect  
thrashing, desperate pleas for life  
denied by the master of fates

An unwilling participant in the game of life  
this insect adds its energy to the web  
life forces, life faces, a thread in a tapestry  
the web gradually grows greater

The seasons saunter and slowly shift  
Days to months to years  
the web grows to a fantastic strength  
able to bear almost any burden

Tiny insects, large bugs, enormous dragonflies  
all fall to the power of the web  
fierce and terrible, gentle and natural  
it conquers all

yet the web cannot fly, cannot soar into the heavens  
the king controls a castle of constrained dreams

if a spider sleeps, perchance it visions  
a metamorphosis, of freedom  
But yet this exchange would lose the spiders strength  
devouring, creating, werewolf strength

A perfect insect would have both  
but alas, the world will never be perfect  
until all insects are long gone  
and so are we

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I hope that wasn’t terrible :smack: