Cobwebs

Dewdrops stud the spiders’ threads
that span the fence posts and the gate.
Blowing in the autumn breeze, cobwebs
dangle between trees, a trap for falling
leaves. Berries stud the spiders’ threads
that hang from hedge and rowan tree,
and woodland creatures make their beds,
store nuts and fruit in preparation. Flocks
of birds fly in migration, and the reds
of leaves and berries bring us cheer
when dewdrops stud spiders’ threads.

Kim M. Russell, 19th September 2023

Image by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

This Tuesday at the dVerse Poets Pub, Melissa is our Poetics host and we are folding into autumn. Like Melissa, it’s my favourite season, and for the same reasons: it’s temperate, and the leaves are beginning to change and colour the landscape.

Melissa has shared autumnal poetry by Baudelaire, Garrard Beck, Emily Brontë and our own Gillena, whose poem has been given as an example of the fold poem, which has eleven lines, with the end phrase of line one at lines five and eleven; the rhyme of line one continues through in every other line and there must be a reference to nature and how it affects the poet.

Our challenge is to write a poem incorporating autumn, sprinkling in some autumn words from the list provided, or whatever other autumn words might fall into our heads, and we may use the fold form or any other form we wish.

35 thoughts on “Cobwebs”

  5. Woww! This is absolutely exquisite, Kim 😍 I love how flawlessly the poem flows especially; “Flocks of birds fly in migration, and the reds of leaves and berries bring us cheer when dewdrops stud spiders’ threads.” ❤️❤️

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  14. Wow Kim – such a tight form with repetitive rhyme and phrases but you have added internal rhymes too which I think is what makes the imposed form less obvious – smooth!

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