Sunday Whirl (Wordle #140) presents a list of words
that we must incorporate in a writing piece.
The words this week are:
spider, echo, clear, level, attend, pulverize
intact, fly, shuttle, means, follow, listen, split.
The Agency
They build webs
Lightly
Quietly
Always listening
And attending
To vibrations,
Echoes of activity
Of interest;
Clear messages
To attend to,
To shuttle across to,
To follow to the source
And pulverize,
Figuratively.
Or literally.
The small fly,
The small fry,
The little guy,
Who, at some level,
Has tweaked
Their tendrils,
Tweaked their interest,
And though captured intact
The mind will be split
From the body—
Stress positions,
Ways and means,
Ways and means,
Enhanced interrogation.
They are a spider
Multiple eyes,
Multiple arms
Venomous.
We should feel safer
But we don’t.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013
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Another good one. I think if someone farts the CIA and equivalent agencies know about it. I am so glad I don't own a mobile :)
ReplyDeleteya, sure, right, okay.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely outstanding.
ReplyDeleteFancy yourself in orange then, do you?
ReplyDeleteStunning.
ReplyDeleteVery clever use of the wordle words. Ha, I wonder if they are reading poems in the blogosphere. Happy holidays to you, JC.
ReplyDeletewords with deadly effects.. :)
ReplyDeleteYour words remind me of a piece of news I heard the other day. Apparently there is too much data being exchanged for agencies to be able to really sort out what is relevant and what is not. Should that make us feel better?
ReplyDeleteDepends on whether it gridlocks the system or results in indefinite detention of some poor sod making a Bombe Alaska.
DeleteDelightful read it is, thank you for sharing JC. :)
ReplyDeleteAnkita
Very clever! Really enjoyed this one.
ReplyDeleteEnough to make any small fly tremble...
ReplyDeleteEven the innocent look guilty to those without a conscience.
ReplyDeleteTake cover! The agency may have just added you to their list!
ReplyDeleteYou took a wonderful direction!!!
ReplyDeleteBig brother can be a scary beast lurking in the corner ready to pounce..heavy..dark..omnipresent..
ReplyDeleteExcellent and frightening
ReplyDeleteHere's a metaphor that works. Shakespeare too would love it!
ReplyDeletea thoughtful and frightening peace... it rings of a truth that shouldn't be... but is
ReplyDeleteGreat imagery and feeling. I felt like I was on that web, sometimes the spider and sometimes the fly!...
ReplyDeleteVery cool & scary....for the little guy caught in that web.
ReplyDeleteYikes, makes me suspect we might both be on a list somewhere. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my spidey verse. I like yours too!
ReplyDeleteYeah, sometimes the big boss, big brother...seems like 'they' have 1,000 eyes and at least that many legs! ~Cheers Jules
So true and frightening! Wonderful use of the words!
ReplyDeleteI got the feeling of flight...as if we with your words fly in cosmo..within the matrix....scary!
ReplyDeleteSmall as they are, they're lethal. The sight of one can make us shiver! Great write Cosmo!
ReplyDeleteHank
Excellent use of the words, you made them your own,
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Excellent play on words here
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