Ysabel de la Rosa

What a winter we've had! I'm more ready for spring than usual. Here are two spring-time poems, one thought-provoking and metaphorical, and the other just fun.

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Said the Spider to Her Lover
© Ysabel de la Rosa

When I first tucked you in
you were simple enough,
a glistening creature guided by wind
into the heart of my web

Oh, my iridescent trophy,
how easy it was to surround you,
strand at a time, and how lovely
to have your color at the center of
my almost invisible home

Alas, the weaving’s grown more
difficult with you in the middle,
a foreign body now threaded
into structural necessity

I cannot consume you
and cannot let you go,
only weave around you,
weave around you so
the web lines will hold
us never closer and
not quite face-to-face as
we ride the wind now,
each of us, in place

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Spring's a Coming
© Ysabel de la Rosa

Blow, breezes!
Come, windses!
Rule over us, rains!

Toss the trees
Dance the dandelions
Deliver the drink
the thirsty earth needs
to spring
spring on us.

Let