AND THE BEASTS SHALL PRAISE HIM

Trapped! 

In Memory of the Spider who was taken aboard Sky Lab!  
 

Arabella; little Spider! 
Going where no Spider has gone before! 
Did you ever dream in your Spider childhood 
That up above the World you'd soar? 
 
That Humans would catch and keep your Ladyship 
Aboard a soaring silver home 
That you would struggle to build you webs 
Where no Spider before had ever roamed? 
 
Your first few webs were tangled messes 
But with  Spider courage your persevered 
In time they grew to Silver Wonders 
Like any on the Sapphire Sphere! 
 
How many looked and saw your spinning 
And realized the significance of that: 
That you would build in a New Environment 
Nothing but the same old trap? 
 
Are we as trapped as all you   Spiders
Caught in minds of strife and sin 
That instead of building a New Tomorrow 
We'll spin the same old webs again? 

BATS  

Ebony little fledermaus 
With bug tuned ears and sightless eyes 
Soaring over church and house 
Princess of the darkling skies! 
 
In movies bad you sucked our blood 
And lurked in graveyards bad and old 
Your teeth were long and cruel and sharp 
Your ways were mean, your heart was cold! 
 
Yet God made not you batlings bad 
but creatures gentle as a mouse 
With joy filled hearts you soar and swoop 
Above our sweetly sleeping house. 
 
Like little ghosts you soar and dance 
Below silver stars, above the trees 
Using wings as ebony nets 
With startling and graceful ease! 
 
Laughing dancers of the dark 
filling skies with warmth and love! 
Not eating us or bleeding us but 
Eating those who do suck blood! 
 
When Starships soar through velvet sky 
As Galaxies and Planets roll 
When Stars get old and resurrect 
When Mountains sink and rerise tall 
 
When all of Time weaves infinite web 
When flesh of all life reaches high 
When Heaven rules with joyous songs 
Then still may Batlings bless our Sky! 
 
 

MOON SNAIL  

Moon is a White Snail 
Eating the Algae of the Skies 
The dark Algae Clouds. 
 

Rejoicing For Penguins

Penguins are not flightless birds! 
For their beneath the Sapphire Sea 
They wing and glide the Ocean wide 
As flying a Bird as a Bird can be 
 
Penguins soar beneath the waves 
And dance the waters brave and free 
Oh yes! They fly! They swoop! They soar! 
As flying a bird as you can see! 
 

Butterfly  

Butter fly  Butter fly Pretty little flutter fly! 
Flitting through the flower fields 
Feeling fancy free! 
 
Sunlight shimmering on your wings 
Darling little dancing thing 
Oh what a joyous sight 
A butterfly to see! 

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