Two-legged Tarantula

Better to be thought a fool - than to open your mouth and prove it ….

Two-legged Tarantula

Rancid rhetoric

Wrapped in webs of wickedness

Titillates terror

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2018

Author's Note

A person may incite another to do an act by threatening or by pressure, as well as by persuasion. The incitement can take any form (words or deeds). It may be addressed to a particular person or group or to the public at large.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

It's amazing how you manage to condense the entire last week of USA news with so few syllables *wink! wink!* Just before these 14 bombs were mailed out, I told a friend that people are going to get hurt as the rhetoric gets more & more inflammatory & fake. I've never been more disgusted in my life & your poem expresses this perfectly (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Its a global epidemic - voices from the orifice instead of the heart and mouth - thanks for the review my friend … :-)

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

How insightful you are! I loved this. Your haiku is an excellent example of what is presently occurring (and has been for some time) on a global scale.

It must be the water. LOL! :-)

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you Tamara - must stick to wine only - made from melted glacier ice … :-)

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

Too funny! :)

[Einstein Noodle]

ohhhhhhh that's what the pic is!!! i couldn't figure out what it was until i read your poem ... your very deliberate assonance works extremely well says i! especially that first line .. as a senryu it couldn't get much better ... well done ... powerful ... sharp commentary ... a terrible terror indeed
E.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Cheers my friend - very kind of you to say so … :-)

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

Sadly it is all around - don’t understand y it needs to be this way the system is a dark nasty lonely horrid place but sadly it’s the people who make it that way- great write🌹

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Yes - it is a scary time - thank you for your poignant comments … :-)

[‘Thoughts In Time’🌹]

Pleasure always 🌹

[Chris Shaw]

That's how it starts, words which grow more and more hateful, words which radicalise and turn some into terrorists. Well expressed and you've managed alliteration as well Phil.

Chris

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thanks Christine - just my view of the world today - :-)

[angel]

I love this one, man! It made me think, and I saw a cartoon in my mind: Trump as the RCA Victor speaker...his big mouth formed into the old fashioned TRUMPet speaker horn, and the dog, normal dog body, bomber's head, gazing up at the speaker, with the legend:HIS MASTER'S VOICE. Can
anybody draw that?

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thanks for the review and an insight into your thought process - cool … :-)

[Annie Gryphon]

full of meaning, pure and well constructed with all of these alliterations - thank you for sharing this little beauty

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Vielen Dank für Ihre Bewertung Annie - :-)

[emmajoy]

Brief, succinct words, hard to question or answer except with raised brows and a touch of fear. What's happened to diplomacy: multi lateral expertise> Fools rush in ...

[Phill Oz O'fee]

You are beginning to see my motives - less is more - in some cases … thank you for your comments and review - take care … :-)