Poets Are Like Spiders Poem by Glen Kappy

A very interesting and unusual simile and form. I like the comparison very much and the surprise that you end with is very satisfying.

Wow. This one is interesting. I agree spider's webs are intricate and beautifully crafted just like many poems but are often ignored. In my poem " Thank you dear poets" I compared poets with honeybees. But your comparison of a poet with a spider is really interesting.

I like this image! Especially after reading your poem that ends, Is there a truest light? Sometimes light has to hit something just right to illuminate its beauty, and some writers come into vogue and go out of vogue depending on what that particular time values. The webs don't lose their beauty. They just get lost in the shadows.

I very much relate to this one Glen. I do think a spider web is so underated. It is intricate and beautiful and artfully crafted and innate to the spider, very much like a poet with his poem. So closely tied to the poets heart and written not for others to admire, but because there is a deep calling to do so. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting description about poets by a poet who wants to be a spider... ;)

This strikes me as an invitation to others to write their own poem. The metaphor of the spider for the poet and its web for his collected poems resonates: it's the tradition begun by THE NOISELESS, PATIENT SPIDER by Whitman and I sense Dickinson's presence in THAT CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT. So this summons to poetry evokes the two great American poets.