Ranger20 Feb 2006

I'm glad you like it - high regard from the better poets here is certainly praise indeed! The spider was a semi-reference to God, in a way that people enter cathedrals and seem to be a little uncertain as to whether anything really is paying attention, plus from the spider's point of view the chamber is his 'house', just as the cathedral is God's.
In contrast, its reaction to the song was a mirror of mine; I had never heard such an awe-inspiring verse before (hence the description of myself as a doll; the inexperience and discovery of childhood).
The tree was an image that unfolded in my mind as I listened; imagine the life of a tree sped up so it happens in the space of just a few moments - a crescendo at birth, a verse in full bloom, and the fading final years...I'm sure it's not an original metaphor, but it seems a perfect description for a song.
There's so much that I tried to fit in here, not all of it particularly well jointed together - it's fantastic that people like this, but to me it still seems untidy somehow. In time I may do another version, but I'm prepared to be patient with this one. It took me an extremely long time to write.
Side note: this actually started life as a haiku - oh how things change!