Yet again I have been stepped on
But I’m not worried this time
I think I’ll keep all the legs I have left
Ok I’ll tell you why
I was spinning a web here in this doorway
When they thrust a human inside
My whole web collapsed and I fell at his feet
I thought I would have died
All the flies I’d caught for my dinner that night
Escaped and flew away
And the sticky web it took me ages to spin
Wrapped around his body that day
Squished to a pulp I lay on the floor
My blood and guts spilling out
But I was lucky because you see
It was Jesus who stepped on me
I was instantly healed and my legs replaced
I crawled up his cloak to kiss his face
But the other humans were treating him bad
So I decided to hide in his hair
So they wouldn’t see me there
And Christ was stunned…
So later that night he’s beaten and ragged
And all he wants is some water
So I crawled along to get him some
I just thought hey.. I oughta
But the Roman’s aren’t as nice as him
And just as I got to the bowl…there came a foot
SQUICK …bleh.. I stagger back to Jesus
Injured and alone as he is..
So we hang upon this cross together
Man and spider in holy union
I expect I should warn my family
Never to trust the bloody Romans
Its ok though cos I have Christs own word
That both he and I shall rise again
After being dead for three days
I’m looking forward to that..
If I can survive all this rain…
Maybe not though eh?
In a list
- World Religions Atheist and Agnostic D group list • next in list
A contest entry
- THE ARREST OF CHRIST by R S Adams Jr.
600 points, ended April 16, 2007, 8 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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BAHAHAHAHAHAAA
Oh my god this was so funny and so sweet (and kinda sad) but then it was sweet again. Loved it!
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Very cleaver indeed.
Fresh...
new...
imaginative..
funny...
You really went
outside the perimeters
and brought back
ART!
BLESSINGS GYPSY,
LOWELL POE
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interesting, unique
I enjoyed this one very much. Would like to critize this poem but can't say I would change a word of it.
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Christ that was funny!! just think from that one spider
multitudes of holy spiders have been born... as I write there could be a living decendent right in the attic of my house!!! I am truly blessed
of couse
I'm stil going to kill the little bugger.. I hate spiders. LOVED THIS ONE TOO>> YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL KNACK FOR HUMOR.
laurie
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Funny stuff! Now try Mohammed. It is in Jewish and Islamic stories that God had sent a Spider to save Prophets of old, and Mohammed Himself. Weave your Web, make a collection of Spidey Devotees!
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wow!!! this is so unbelievably ,I mean..............so fantastic kind of fourish kind of marvelous ironmanishulkish greatness!!! Imean, this has got to be the best poetry in the worldddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ah i was going to say a few things for example christ's own word buit i see it has already been said so i will just say i thought this was nuts lol fun and good but nuts all the same - a unique way of looking at religion and i always like unique angles, i have a spider brolly somewhere, i think it might be in the bathroom there's a spider in there who gets splashed sometimes when i have a bath - lucky spider here, crushed by jesus and healed right away, how stuffy is that
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full of emotion
Christs = Christ's
I read this poem with a smile and a grimace at the same time. You have played with the emotions because 'Spidey' is a humorous name, and Christ is a deeply emotional subject in your poem.
I was enthralled wiht the presentation; the viewpoint of Spidey and how he/she reacts to the compassion of Christ - we are all in that spider, on the cross with Jesus, and we are in 'holy union. We have 'Christ's word," and we also have our own rain to survive.
Your have made the comparison between the spider's experience/thoughts and those of humanity; and made the comparison live.
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thank you
Thank you for your entry to this contest. I will write a comment on your poem in a few days when I finish the judging.
Richard
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verygood
this was fun and still got to the point about jesus welldone very good
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