April is Poetry Month
I was in Speech Club during high school, and I had to memorize a bunch of poems for my speech meets since my category was Extemporaneous Poetry. To celebrate National Poetry Month, I’ll be sharing a favorite poem each Friday of April.
This week’s poem is not a cheerful happy one, but I remember relishing the last two lines, making them contrast with each other as much as I could. It’s been running through my mind this week, so it gets shared with you all first. I hope you enjoy it!
“The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly”
By Vachel Lindsay
Once I loved a spider
When I was b
rn a fly,

A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.