Web on a fence
Blowing in the wind
Silk stronger than steel
But lightest of gossamer
A gift freely given
Labour of love and necessity
Patience exemplified
Pattern repeated again and again
Trap for the unwary
Dinner-plate of necessity
Yet no utilitarian structure
Instead beauty epitomised
An arachnid wheel
Softly gathering dew drops
And glistening in the sunlight
Sparkling diamonds; what a sight!
Poem and photo copyright to Englepip©
Sometimes things just get in the way
Too much to do and too much to say.
Sometimes busyness takes us over,
Hard to live, when jobs spillover.
Sometimes those we love get ignored
They take up time we cannot afford.
Sometimes time just runs away
And it’s gone before the end of the day.
And if you think I’m just being witty
Wasting your time with a rhyme or a ditty
Then consider the following if you can
What’s the purpose of every (wo)man
If we can’t laugh, love, lead a life that’s true
Cos we’re making excuses that our time flew,
Telling each other there’s no time for you.
Then who are we really and do we deserve
To even exist on this wonderful earth?
So take a moment, a minute, or even an hour
To balance your life and take back the power:
To make your life calmer, even serene:
To begin to remember who you’ve been
Before things took over and time became mean.
Then life will improve and you will feel new;
Take time to consider how time plays with you.
Photo by Englepip©
Photos by Englepip ©
Peculiar – that’s what it is
When wetness falls out of the heavens
to touch the trees and the mountaintops,
making pools on the ground ….
but such is rain.
Strange when the ocean recedes
And the rocks are exposed for hours
Before it returns to the same place to start over ….
As the tides come and go.
Odd when the leaves fall off the trees
and the branches wave like witches’ fingers in the cold
when temperatures plummet ……
in the Fall.
Unfamiliar when the land is covered in snow
And it drifts in folds across the landscape
Making everything clean and white and blanketed ……
in winter.
Uncanny when the wind screeches wildly
Whipping up the water into huge waves
Demolishing our world ……..
in a hurricane.
Bizarre when standing on dry land
leads to slipping and sliding as though on glass
And nothing is stable enough to be walked on ……..
without falling on the ice.
Peculiar, that the most natural things in the world
Our weather, seasons and tides can be so strange.
Englepip's World 