Encounter with a Dragonfly

Friday afternoon, while I was walking in the trails behind my house, I noticed this Dragonfly seemingly stuck in midair. Upon further inspection, I saw she was entangled in a barely visible, giant spider’s web.

Later, as I walked away, I jotted these words in my phone’s note’s section. I do not know anything about the formality of poetry since I am not an English major by any means. However, I have notebooks and note’s sections filled with these kinds of scribbles as a way to document my experiences.

DragonFly

Sienna Orange Insect

Suspended midair

fluttering her wings

Unable to fly anywhere

Ensnared

In the barely visible

Crafty Spider’s Web

I, the Passerby, distressed

Seeing this creature

About to meet

A slow and grisly death

Intent on Rescue

Grab a stick

Swipe the

The silken web

Although this insect

Flaps her wings

She plummets

To the ground

The sinews

Of the broken web

Have fused their

Sticky film

Upon her intricate wings

Rendering motion unachievable

Unaware of the residual

Potency these sinews still assume

She continues fluttering

Hoping flight will resume

A break in undulations

Silence

She attempts once more

Fighting to endure

Another Intervention

To prevent her wretched death

Does she comprehend

As my fingers sensitively

Remove the toxic threads

Turning two wings

Back to four

Does it matter?

She Flutters now

And flies

Even to her own surprise

Lands on the

First twig

Within her

Discerned reach

Pauses

One, two, three

Flaps her wings

This time taking flight

Exceeding her last attempt

And lands on top of a tree

Pauses

One two three

Flies away

Far beyond the position

Of being attached

Within the web

Of certain misery.