The seven legged spider knits and sews
Makes seven little socks to warm her toes
What mountains should she climb without a rope?
(it’s tempting here to rhyme by using ‘hope’)
What balance, oh! what symmetry beheld
When once she set about her climb, compelled
Considering her loss she holds her ground
Returning home she stokes the fires, earthbound
The seven legged spider knits and sews
Makes seven little socks to warm her toes
© Jilly & Silly Jilly All Rights Reserved
Frank is tending bar at the Poet’s Pub,
dVerse on Thursday night, we’re challenged thus
to meet out lines for Meet the Bar this day
Iambic feet in lines that hold to ten
I cut my teeth on nurs’ry rhymes of old
with thoughts that run within this form each day
And so, my friends, my spider with a crutch
is in the spotlight twice within one week.
Jilly's 
I love it. Made me laugh out loud. Very catchy tale.
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There is a similarity in our poems for this prompt, isn’t there? 😉
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There is.
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Tis a cute tale indeed, perhaps a poem for children, or our inner child.
It made me jolly; thanks.
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That’s the spider with the missing leg. I like how you start and end with her knitting socks for her remaining legs. I also like this couplet: “What mountains should she climb without a rope?
(it’s tempting here to rhyme by using ‘hope’)”
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Thank you. I chose to have ‘her’ come back to where she began as a statement about defeat. Love this prompt!
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I love the second round of your cute seven legged spider with toes!!
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Thanks, Dwight. The image and metaphor of the spider with one missing leg has captured my imagination.
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I should have sent you my photo to go with it!!
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Photo?
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I had a seven legged spider on the downspout a couple of weeks ago!
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JillLyman.jl@gmail.com
Would love to see that! (Amazing coincidence.)
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https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/charlotte/
This is the web address for the spider.
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Your fourth line is so accurate.
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Oooh! Thank you for seeing that.
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This is delightful to read Jilly!
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This is adorable iambic poem! Like a nursery rhyme.
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Thanks! When I write a Silly Jilly it’s meant to be child-like while dealing with deeper truths underneath. Glad you stopped by!
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Brilliant, Jill! I love spiders and I love your seven-legged iambic one with her seven little socks! I like the aside in brackets – they always make me smile – and the use of ‘symmetry’ has echoes of William Blake’s tyger! A tiger spider!
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Yeah! Glad you spotted the Blake allusion!
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i love this tenacious spider, you give her such character!
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You make that little spider looks cute… and if she has socks maybe she can hide those hairy toes.
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Hahaha! Best laugh of my day!!
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“What mountains should she climb without a rope? / (it’s tempting here to rhyme by using ‘hope’)… Considering her loss she holds her ground….” Beware the compelling truth concealed often in Jilly’s silly rhymes! Like many a child’s nursery rhyme, this holds a dark tale… close to the poet’s heart. Brilliant, Jilly!
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Thank you, Charley. There are hidden truths in this tale – glad you see that.
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You are welcome.
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I find your iambic spider’s tale delightfully clever, Jilly!
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Thank you!
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