Meet the secretive bark spider that inspired my poem Invisible Threads

Conservation Through Education / Natuurbewaaring Deur Opleiding. Meet the secretive bark spider that inspired my poem Invisible Threads included in this note below.



It was a magnificent sunset and I sat entranced, and the slighest movement caught my glance, upon a single thread a miraculous web formed before my eyes from a predatory spider few have spied.



INVISIBLE THREADS:



ALONE AT FIRST…

PATIENT

DAYLIGHT FADES

CLOAKED IN INKY VEIL

A SUDDEN BURST

DRIVEN ONWARDS BY

AN INSATIABLE THIRST



SWIFTLY BEGUN

INNATELY SPUN

SPIRALS WITH WHICH

NO CRAFT CAN COMPARE

WOVEN AS IF FROM AIR



TIGHTLY BOUND

WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST SOUND

RUSHING RELENTLESSLY

RESOLUTELY

ROUND AND ROUND







A SINGLE PAUSE

BEFORE ADDING

THE FINAL STRAND

HIDDEN YOU REMAIN

WITH THREADS

YOU ARE SUSTAINED





ARACHNIDS ETERNAL GAME



DARKNESS LURKS

NO TIME TO SHIRK

A BANQUET AWAITS

WITH NO SET DATE



AS IF TIME ITSELF

STANDS STILL

MESMERISED

TRAPPED BY

YOUR WOVEN PULL





SHIMMERING

GLEAMING

INVISIBILITY UNSEEMING

YET MOONLIGHT BEAMING

THE ONLY TRACE

ACCROSS YOUR

DREAMLIKE PLACE



ALONE AT FIRST…

UNQUENCHABLE THIRST

BEYOND YOUR

MULTI EYED SIGHT

CRYSTALS FLARE

DEEP AND BRIGHT



BEYOND YOUR REACH





AN INKY NET

MOCKS YOUR IMMITATION

WHICH COULD NEVER

BE AS VAST

AS THE ONE ENCOMPASSED

WITHIN THE COSMIC GRASP



ALONG PRECISCION

NEAR INVISIBLE TRIP WIRES

OF PREDETERMINED FATE

YOU PRECARIOUSLY AWAIT





SOON THEY WILL ARRIVE

UPON THEM

WHOM YOU SHALL PREDATE



DAWN HAS COME

DIAMONDS DANGLE DANCINGLY

DELIRIOUSLY

IN YOUR UNHAPPY NET

DRIP DRIPPING

TO THIRSTY EARTH

AND YET



YOU ARE NOT ALONE

ANYMORE...

A DEAFENING THREAD

THRASHING

TEARING

TANGLED ROAR





SHINY WINGBEATS

TORMENTED

STRANGLE IN

YOUR MASTERPEICE

THEY NOW DANGLE





AWAITING YOU

HOST OF THIS

ONE WAY HOTEL



ALL ARE WELCOME

BUT NONE

BID YOU FAREWELL





A JUICY FEAST

QUENCHES THIS

MIRACULOUS BEAST

FOR NOW

IT IS TIME TO DINE

ON YOUR OWN SILKY FARE





ANOTHER NIGHT

TO AWAIT

FOR THOSE UNAWARE





YOU ARE ALONE...

AT FIRST

YOU BEGIN YOUR WELL

PRACTICED VERSE



NIGHT HAS RETURNED

YET AGAIN

YOUR APPETITE BURNS

WITHOUT END…



For Grant's international scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)





The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.



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