Photo: V. Slotto
Spider webs masquerade
as snow-laden branches
on a dead birch
in July.
Linked to dVerse Poets’ Pub. It’s Open Link Night and Bjorn invites us to share our word addiction at the poetry bar. Hope you’ll stop by, share a poem and enjoy the work of your fellow wordsmiths.
Victoria C. Slotto, Author 
I’ve always liked spiders, but their webs are kind of sinister, aren’t they? Neat poem!
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And this is clever. They do indeed look like that. Lovely.
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A lovely piece, Victoria.
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Short, but webs can make lovely patterns
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even in July things can be fragile , this is beautiful
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I’d have never seen a web for snow~t brilliant ! Unforgettable !
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Wonderful visual in this, Victoria.
Pamela
p.s. I hope you consider joining us over at the whirl on Sunday. Brenda will send the words to you early, if you ask her to. Or you can get them on her facebook page.
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And I did, Pamela! See previous post–the smell of dark.
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I will be over to read this evening, Victoria. I am so glad you decided to join us 🙂
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Perfect description of deception for a bug’s eye view!
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What a cool inspiration. Spiders are some of my favorites and I love the underlying metaphor.
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they cling to the face as one walks through the wood too… lovely verse
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You have revealed a beautiful dose of your imagination. 🙂 Lovely haiku. 🙂
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Deception, indeed. Great pic and description.
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cool pic and wonderful capture that goes way beyond of what is visible..
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Insightful. Things are not what they appear to be . Descartes wrote about this.
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What a lovely image!
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Well captured imagery, both words and photo!
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Deception…drew me into the poem..cool picture..the spider must be near by waiting for the capture.
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Ha! Very clever! They will bring a freeze too, to those caught in their frost! k.
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slow move of a spider and snow with the heat of july… thank you
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I love the comparison here, Victoria. As for the photo — those definitely are SOME webs!
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Well done choice of image to work with.>KB
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A great imagery, those spiderwebs can look like winter
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love how you capture an image and invite the imagination to interpret it.
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Great photo, and wonderful poem. Very nicely done!
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…sometimes they walk in the air to create that masquerade of death… smiles… love to go out & seek for these li’l wonders of nature… smiles…
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Lovely word painting
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Gorgeous photo and words to accompany, Victoria!
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deceiving indeed – still, there’s something undeniably beautiful about spider webs stretched between tree branches (dead of alive)
a lovely poem
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great title…and a nice capture of simple…i wonder where our wishes play into seeing snow as well…ha…just to cool off a bit…smiles…
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This is such beautiful work Victoria—I love the image and how it all works together
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spider webs masquerading as snow-laden branches….a very stark image unfolding here, Victoria. great one~
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