*** Listen to The Music of The Night ***

A while back I wrote this poem and one of the inspirations for writing it came from the story of "The Spider and The Fly by Mary Howitt.


Of course what goes beautifully with this story is the amazing artwork of Tony DiTerlizzi http://www.diterlizzi.com/



Listen,to the music of the night!
What joy it brings,
From somewhere,in the distant sight,
An echo of fond embrace, it carries on starry strings,
A beautiful song it sings.

And to the music, dance the twiggy limbs of trees,
While a spider looms black enchantment of his polished entangle,
Within the tree’s benighted leafy eaves,
Preparing for its unwary guest, secretly to strangle
Without an uttered sigh, he waits and dangles.


And all the while beneath his watch, beneath moon-beams,
A lonely heart broods mutely in treasured thought,
Basked in the afterglow of summer dreams,
Encircled by the light of impassioned fireflies, once caught,
It lingers in the twilight, conceiving of all that is now lost, that once had fiercely sought

And to the spider’s delicious delight,
At long last, his guest has arrived,
Within the finery of his home’s sweet lite,
This ballroom he so ingeniously contrived,
Will undeniably see his innocent one , will have not, the night survived.

artwork by Tony DiTerlizzi

Lonely is the heart that wonders,
Of the hour that was day
Of the hour that is night, of the hours torn asunder
Of a life that has gone by and now is gray
Of a life that now has all decayed.

artwork Walt Disney



*** Alternate Ending *** for the Light Side

Oh but, sweet hour of the dawning,
Now gone is the hour of the night,
Now heart, look upon thy mourning, yawning
To the birdsong on the wind of light
Rising high above the trees, on a web of crystal white



~ Annabelle


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