Webs on the Christmas Tree

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There was a lady who lived next door
From a town in Ukraine born
Who every year for the Christmas season
Put spiders and webs her tree in
What a strange lady I did think
That there might be a meaning I did not link
Then one day when we did cross paths
I thought to ask
Why the spiders and webs I pointed
The answer she gave left me not disappointed
It’s a tradition in my home country
From a story of the Christmas Spider it be
Here I believe it is tinsel
It is from my country that you received such info
Once a tree was planted
But had to be abandoned
Grown from a pine cone
From the seed it was grown
Grown for Christmas a tree they’d own
But the family was so poor they made soup from a stone
So no decorations they had
To decorate the tree and make themselves glad
So on Christmas eve they did sleep
But in the tree a spider they did keep
The spider and family worked all through the night
To decorate it with webs and make it a sight
When they woke the next morn
The light shown through the webs the tree adorned
The first light of Christmas day
Turned those webs into a gold and silver display
The poor family was overjoyed
They were blessed for the home of the spiders they did not destroy
Now we too add a web or two to our tree
In hopes of winning a web lottery. 😁

This was for a dVerse prompt:

Dear Poets, I am going to make today’s prompt easy for you (I hope!) by opening it up to the following options:
1) write to any of the previous prompts linked above, using their guidelines
2) follow the wikipedia link and choose one of Legendary Creatures to write about
3) create your own creature using one (or more) of the types wiki categorizes them into
4) take a line from one of the three above excerpts and build a poem around it.

I chose option 2 (clink the dVerse link to see more detailed info) and wrote about the Christmas Spider, which I just learned of because of the link. I followed the rhyming of each line similar to the A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the Night Before Christmas), though I stretched some of the rhyming a bit. lol. I hope you enjoy!

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C. Stuart Lewis creates poems with feeling, intelligence and sex appeal. His short stories and books focus on characters that feel real in real world situations. Originally from the United States he now resides in Ontario, Canada. Check out his webpage at TheAuthorStew.ca

14 thoughts on “Webs on the Christmas Tree”

  7. Stew, just the right legendary creature as we go into the holiday season. How many are so poor that they can’t decorate their Christmas trees. I love how a creature that is so fearsome to many decides to brighten a poor family’s Christmas morning.

    About the rhyming with Twas the Night Before Christmas, I’m not sure I see it, but a very creative way to link the old poem to it.

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    1. Thanks. The rhyming is an AA, BB, CC, etc. type like Twas the Night Before Christmas. I’m thinking of trying to do the story of the Christmas Spider in a more rhyme with syllable count as in the Night Before Christmas but that would take more time and work and this was done quick. Glad you liked it!

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