Ladybird Haiku

Friday, October 06, 2006

18 Comments:

At 6/10/06 9:25 AM, Blogger The Site Administrator said...

a leaf with eight pairs of eyes and fangs!

this piece is elegant in its simplicity, polona.

 
At 6/10/06 2:19 PM, Blogger Pat Paulk said...

YIKES!!!! Oh, the webs we weave...

 
At 6/10/06 4:07 PM, Blogger Margie said...

I like this one Polona....
Excellent!

 
At 6/10/06 10:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love this one!

I had quite the interesting encounter with a huuuuuuuge spider this past week. And silly me simply wanted to photograph it rather than brush it off.:) But all I could think of, was, "Haiga moment!"

Great write, Polona.

 
At 6/10/06 11:59 PM, Blogger Kai said...

love it!

 
At 7/10/06 12:05 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi! Nice posting"In the spider-web of facts,many a truth is strangled"He!He!He!
Wish you well

 
At 7/10/06 12:37 AM, Blogger Plus Ultra said...

Your other friends have say it all, hototogisu is so right

 
At 7/10/06 2:08 AM, Blogger Nabeel said...

the spider web has great strength !

 
At 7/10/06 3:40 AM, Blogger dsnake1 said...

so much in so few words.

lovely spider, er.., i mean, picture. :)

 
At 7/10/06 6:57 AM, Blogger J. Andrew Lockhart said...

very nice! (what happened to the photo of you?)

 
At 7/10/06 7:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

VERY COOL!!!! :oD

 
At 7/10/06 10:55 PM, Blogger polona said...

i'm quite amazed that this one resonated with you, guys... it was made from scratch (the #@&" writer's block)... i had to browse the archives for anything remotely suitable for posting, edit it and find a suitable photo, so i really didn't expect such response :)


hototogisu: thank you.
my first published haiku (well, in the first accepted batch) was the following:

seven pairs of legs
in a peculiar dance:
a fly and a spider


charlie: they're in fact quite amazing creatures... ok, the female may have her mate for lunch, but some species are devoted mothers, looking after their offspring until they're ready to fly away on their silvery threads, and dying of exhaustion afterwards...

pat: those webs i fear, not the real spiders... thank you!

margie: thank you!

aurora: i guess i would have reacted in a similar way :)
in fact, i almost tore one of those guy's webs the other day but managed to back off in time. the spider (and it was a huge one, possibly a pregnant female) vanished into the bracken
many thanks, aurora!

kai: thank you!

zingtrial: so true, thank you!

plus ultra: thank you!

nabeel: yes, it is one of (if not the) strongest materials on earth :) cheers!

dsnake: thank you! and i think spiders are beautiful in a way :)

andrew: thank you! (i can see the photo as usual)

jon: thank you!

 
At 8/10/06 4:25 AM, Blogger Masago said...

Well done (as are the many comments).

 
At 8/10/06 8:49 PM, Blogger polona said...

thank you, masago!

 
At 9/10/06 1:57 AM, Blogger Osquer said...

Wow! Marvelous picture and poem!

 
At 9/10/06 10:40 PM, Blogger polona said...

you're most kind, osquer. thank you!

 
At 10/10/06 8:41 AM, Blogger Borut said...

I love this one. What worries me, but this is my own problem:), is the spidery elegance...:)

 
At 10/10/06 9:46 PM, Blogger polona said...

thank you, borut. why should that be worrying?

 

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