Poem: "Spider Granddaughter"
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ysabetwordsmithThis poem came out of the July 7, 2015 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from zeeth_kyrah. It also fills the "India" square in my 6-10-15 card for the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
genprompt_bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by mama_kestrel.
"Spider Granddaughter"
I left Turtle Island
to visit my relatives
in Āryāvarta.
Nobody had time for me
over there, either.
I set a fire with Kali's torch,
and nobody burned.
I opened the Arctic
with Ganesha's key,
and nobody froze.
I put on Shiva's music,
and nobody danced.
So I took my time
taking the world apart.
The two-legs were so
annoying anyway --
they fouled the water and
cut down the standing people
and killed the four-legs.
I let them see the consequences
of their actions, dried up the lakes
and set the Arctic on fire.
Oh, everyone noticed
when they saw all that smoke!
My relatives sent home early and
Spider Grandmother scolded me
and made me help her with
cleaning the World Wide Web.
But at least they weren't
ignoring me anymore.
* * *
Notes:
Turtle Island is an indigenous name for North America, and Spider Grandmother is an important mythic figure here.
Read about India and Āryāvarta. Kali, Ganesha, and Shiva all come from there.
zeeth_kyrah. It also fills the "India" square in my 6-10-15 card for the genprompt_bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by mama_kestrel. "Spider Granddaughter"
I left Turtle Island
to visit my relatives
in Āryāvarta.
Nobody had time for me
over there, either.
I set a fire with Kali's torch,
and nobody burned.
I opened the Arctic
with Ganesha's key,
and nobody froze.
I put on Shiva's music,
and nobody danced.
So I took my time
taking the world apart.
The two-legs were so
annoying anyway --
they fouled the water and
cut down the standing people
and killed the four-legs.
I let them see the consequences
of their actions, dried up the lakes
and set the Arctic on fire.
Oh, everyone noticed
when they saw all that smoke!
My relatives sent home early and
Spider Grandmother scolded me
and made me help her with
cleaning the World Wide Web.
But at least they weren't
ignoring me anymore.
* * *
Notes:
Turtle Island is an indigenous name for North America, and Spider Grandmother is an important mythic figure here.
Read about India and Āryāvarta. Kali, Ganesha, and Shiva all come from there.
Are you suggesting---
Date: 2015-12-24 01:04 am (UTC)Snicker.
Snicker.
Then again, the attitude is entirely familiar in my kids, too.
Re: Are you suggesting---
Date: 2015-12-24 02:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-24 01:19 am (UTC)and made me help her with
cleaning the World Wide Web.
Bwa! Bwa-ha!
(no subject)
Date: 2015-12-24 02:06 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2015-12-24 02:08 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2015-12-24 11:50 am (UTC)https://youtu.be/y8o2MKpoaLQ
*Using my legal ID name
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2015-12-24 04:21 pm (UTC)The image of the industrious little weaver making a joke is just fantastic. <3
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2015-12-24 06:07 pm (UTC)And, since That Season is upon us, this seems like a good time and place for linking to the folk motif of Christmas Spiders:
http://spiderwisdom.com/?p=41