Welcome to my blog! This is my first post ever, something I'll never be able to say again. It's purpose, like the spider's is to launch filaments and make connections. Blogging is one of the newer ways to "reach out and touch someone" as the phone company commercials used to say. Way back when the phone was actually attached to the wall. I'm dating myself already. Here's the poem. Try to look past the archaic language forms and get to the real meaning. And to think, Walt Whitman was the avant garde blogger of his day!
A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark'd where on little promonotory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile
anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my
soul.
Love it, Sommieh-Stephanie
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