Tarantella
By jennifer
Thu, 11 Feb 2010
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Tarantella (11th February, 2010, 9.28pm)
Forbidden fingers trace
the spider’s web; caught,
wings entangled, dangling
on a thread of hope
in frosty air.
Wave tentative legs, teeth
catch and snap and tear;
the rope tightens round my
throat and I despair,
suspended there.
Predator and prey; we
dance, tarantella;
you, your cloak of freedom
shadowing intent;
me, tired and spent.
Forbidden eyes linger
on hungry lips; kiss
me quick, before the kill;
let it be painless,
let me be still.
Jennifer Pickup
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Love, the rhythm, Jennifer,
Permalink Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Love, the rhythm, Jennifer, and with 'Tarantella' as its title, this little gem cannot fail...not in my book.
"Predator and prey; we
dance, tarantella;
you, your cloak of freedom
shadowing intent;
me, tired and spent."
Great imagery here, as throughout.
Great stuff, as always, as ever.
T x
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new Jennifer yes! Do agree
Permalink Submitted by Cavalcader on
new Jennifer
yes! Do agree with Silver-spun-sand.
Very well all done, I hate spider's.
I am not poet,your great I can't get
all punctuation.sorry thought meaning
was tarantula Spider.But checked dictionary
dance.I have amazingly done,nearly 90 poems
Readings 25O95.The 3rd cherry!advice,help cherry!
new version did kindly with all punctuation,slightly
done.To mine I asked as grammatically wrong.Purr-fect
now,much better,Editor t.Cook ABCtales Tony deserves
the cherry! I got not me, for all his kind help.
-P-P-P "Pick-Up-A-Penguin"as try out I put I stand to be corrected and all comments please. capital words etc;Been up since 3.am.
Over 3 different ways of punctuation,now words don't know.Now deleted most I said. I can't get punctuation.
Must go.Confusing me.
all puntuation.
J X
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Like the vibrant ideas in
Permalink Submitted by lenchenelf on
Like the vibrant ideas in this one, I wondered, perhaps bring it to a hunter/ ambush (frenzied dance - tarantella) scenario. Tarantula's use funnel webs to lurk in. Maybe 'mantle' in place of cloak? Just a couple of thoughts. all the best lena x
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It's great to see something
Permalink Submitted by MistakenMagic on
It's great to see something new from you, Jennifer! I love the sinister anticipation in this one - and that last stanza is the perfect finish ;)
Magic xxx
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"kiss me quick, before the
Permalink Submitted by Curse of 222 on
"kiss
me quick, before the kill;"
this bit pretty much sums it up for me...beauty and fright all in six words. the whole piece is excellent.
jason
jason
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I agree with Jason's above
Permalink Submitted by Anna Marie on
I agree with Jason's above comment. Those 6 words had me paralyzed. Simply beautiful.
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This was great. The
Permalink Submitted by staticshakedown on
This was great. The beginning really draws you in . . . like a spiderweb :)
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