Elation's Eager Anticipation

Elation's Eager Anticipation

In meticulous articulation waits
the spider encircled in her proud array
of beauty's tragic harmony,
sedentary in statuesque expectation
of elation's eager anticipation,
snatching a victim from thin air.

Ensnared in sticky spindly threads,
and spun snug in a silky white coffin,
she injects it with predigesting poison,
only to slip away and to wait again
in expectation's unequivocal delight
to savor later its slick oozing juices.




This poem is written in a freeform style using a unique flow of rich, multi-syllabic language that incorporates a stream of internal rhyme, assonance, alliteration, and consonance to evoke a deeper sense of the beauty in nature, despite the tragedy of the predatory event.

For more samples of is type of poetry, see "Vestiges" , "Executivism" , "Poised to Propel" , and "Oceanic" .