Mysterious Veil On All Hallows Night

Gold cherry

By skinner_jennifer

Fri, 31 Oct 2025
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Gaze through gossamer of

spider's web, other worlds

that appear beyond veil

most mysterious and

nebulous.

 

Hazy amorphous place just

out of reach, living beside

us, surrounding our world.

 

But when night comes

on Eve of All Hallows,

concealed in dark of

night...

 

do we feel when truly

believing? That there's

more in this world than

what we are seeing.

 

 

 

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Submitted by airyfairy on

Beautiful, mysterious and thoughtful - this is our Halloween social media Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can.

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

What a lovely suprise to see the gold cherries.

Thank you so much airyfairy. Made my evening. smiley

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

There certainly is more to this world than we are seeing Jenny. I think that everytime I'm in the garden and a cobweb I hadn't noticed sticks to my face.

Cobwebs and spiders are wonderful things though, so whenever I spot a really good web with a big and active spider lurking, I can watch it for ages.

And I loved your poem. 

Turlough

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Good evening Turlough, I know what you mean about watching spiders creating their webs. We get lots in our garden too. Some of the webs are so intricate, it's amazing to watch.

I'm glad you loved this poem and thank you so much for letting me know.

Jenny. smiley

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Being so small and fragile but building huge intricate yet resilient structures seemingly out of thin air, spiders make me think of super intelligent aliens, of things we don't, cannot understand. As you say, "more to this world than what we are seeing". This is a lovely Halloween poem, not scary but showing magic is in the everyday

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Good morning Di,

you got exactly what I was trying to say in this poem. Our world is filled with so much mystery. Spiders to me are such intelligent arachnids and do appear alien to me too. I love watching them spinning their webs in the garden, it's like they're teachers of design showing me their intricate world.

Many thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.

Jenny. smiley

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

A perfectly formed tribute to Halloween, Jenny. There sure is so much more to this world than both what we are seeing and the ghostly gouls of our own imaginations. No doubt there is a whole lot we don't know even about spiders.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Jane, you're right there is a lot we don't know or understand about spiders, other than what we're told by the experts, but like all alien life on our beautiful earth, the best part of spiders, is that there is the mystery of not knowing, but only imagining, like the folk lore tales of old, there must be some truth in all alien life that gives the imagination it's magic.

I love the nursery rhymn of Little Miss Muffet, and always remember it from my childhood. Perhaps even based on a real person....you never know.

Anyway thank you for reading and letting me know you liked this poem.

Jenny. smiley