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My Nightmare
by Joyce I Devenish → (All Poetry by Joyce I Devenish)
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My trouble is I have a lot of spiders in my garden and I keep walking into their webs. Well I think that is the problem.

My Nightmare

 

It inched its way along the wall,

It was not big but it was not small.

I sprayed up high to make it fall,

When I looked it wasn’t there at all.

Was that a web in front of my eyes?

Is it having a fit before it dies?

It’s smothering me, I’ll soon be dead,

My only dread is its sticky thread.

It’s in my hair, get out of there,

I’ll soon be dragged into its lair.

From my horror I now awaken,

Stressed and sweating and badly shaken

Still in my bed,

Oh my poor head.

 

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 Reviews of "My Nightmare"
Reviewed by David Perry (Reader)
Reviewed on November 7, 2007
Spider nightmares are definitely the worst kind. I have some nightmares that make me cry out in my sleep, but spider nightmares make me smack at myself to get them off. Last week I dreamt that I'd walked into a web and the spider was right on my nose, I woke up smacking myself in the face ewwww.

Reviewed by Laura Mayer (Reader)
Reviewed on November 5, 2007
Yikes!! I hate spiders, what a nightmare!
Great write, although it made me shiver LOL
Hugs, Laura

Reviewed by Kay P Devenish
Reviewed on September 25, 2007
HA HA HA....I LOVE THIS ONE!!!
Love and hugs
from
Kay

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
I never met a spider that I liked.

Reviewed by Joyce Bowling
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
Oooh, I don't like spiders either, they give me the creeps and the dreams about them is even worse, you've expressed it well in this write, gave me shivers!
Blessings,
Joyce B.

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
A most effective "portrayal," Joyce. Love, peace, and freedom from the fear of spiders to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
Least over here we don't have spiders that bite, or anything else other than wasps. Yet I was bitten by a Funnel when I worked at Dyess AFB in Texas America... lol, that's the main reason I could never work or live in yankyland, well that and the either too hot or cold weather. The only really poisonous thing I've met here is my ex..

Reviewed by Ch'erie de Perrot
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
I hate dreams bout spiders YURRRRK can totally relate to this.
I squish em, redbacks around our house are so common. We don't get the East Coast Funnelwebs down here in SA, but we get their non venomous cousins, which are bigger, but I aint game to test the theory on that LOL...I put the Huntsmans outside usually, but I tell yah, we are getting very short of spiders now, seems the ecology is taking it's toll.
Snakes alive here too, specially the brownies, this odd weather is bring them rotten things out premature..I will have to write a tale about how our cat got into an altercation with a King brownie and lived...
Ooops off topic here, sorry mate.
They say that dreams about spiders is supposed to signify our insecurities, and I dunno if there's any truth to that, but they make your flesh crawl, and that's enuff to make anyone insecure bout their surrounds LOL.
Thanks for this gem, now I shall go sweep all the webs off the front of the house, again!!
Love to yah
Ch'erie
PS our Weather is totally Crackers here.

Reviewed by ~ Holly Harbridge (Reader)
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
You're not alone in these fears my dear,great poem, love Holly

Reviewed on September 15, 2007
Joyce~

Being arachniphobic myself, I got creeped out when I read this one. *BRRRR* *cringecringecringe* There's nothing worse than the feeling of a spider crawlin' on your arm or ESPECIALLY walkin' into their web face first in the dark! GAD! Give me the heebie-jeebies! Excellent portrayal of the fear of spiders; you have captured it brilliantly and effectively!

From one spider-'fraider to another,

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :(

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
It must be The Year of the Spider. The little eight leggeds seem to be everywhere right now. I walked right into a huge web spun overnight, right outside our back door. My wife thinks the entire house will soon be webbed over, and that's her new nightmare. Me? I think that would be very cool - especially around Halloween!

Reviewed by Barbara Mercer
Reviewed on September 15, 2007
Dear Joyce, I have heard that breaking a spider web is very good luck, guess it depends where one lives. Nevertheless it is a nightmare if one is afraid of spiders. A dream book says "we create our own webs or life space, we may go anywhere and weave the life we choose." etc. Well done. Waves of love }}}}}}} Barbara.

Reviewed on September 14, 2007
GAD, Joyce, that is a horror! 'Bout beat myself stupid: gotta. Get. That. Spider. OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Understand your fear. You are not alone. *cringe* EXCELLENT portrayal of a nightmarish situation! Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Don't y'all have funnelwebs in Australia?? JAYS--

Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on September 14, 2007
Get A broome and distroy their webs
A friend of my just today was bitten by a spider
she was in severe pain and had a swollen elbow
I tried my best to make her go to the doctor
But some women are just too stubborn.
Peace be with you

Love
William


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