Landmark

There is only one place

between Heaven and Hell:

A place steeped in

fires and

raging storms

impossible to quell.

A place so vast, so full of empty space,

You might search a million years

To find a single human face.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[DCT ponderings]

" All the world is a stage and we are merely players" wrote Shakespeare. This poem conjured up earth (the plane between heaven ad hell) and the path we take here lifetime after lifetime learning and growing. (in my belief system at least).

You could search a million years life after life simply to recognize yourself or yet to evolve to a place you recognize those with whom you have traveled before.

[Sarah Khalil]

Thank you for the excellent, thoughtful review. I so appreciate it! :)

[zainul]

You have brought me to my love of the poem of Edgar Allan Poe entitled, "Al Aaraaf".
Like many I could not understand the poem and so kept it in my list of study.
But,your poem is superb.I am impressed by its beauty.

[Sarah Khalil]

Thank you so much. I find it delightful that a poem this short could inspire the memory of such a lengthy piece by Poe!

[zainul]

You have touched a very soft part of my heart,lovely poet.
Your piece has created a mixed feeling in my mind .I to translated Poe's "Al Aaraaf" in my language,Bangla and sent to a national newspaper.But,the translated version was never published.
So,my interest and passion for this poem will never end.Little touch or reference in pieces like your ignites my memory and rejuvenates my determination to work again on that famous piece.

[Angi]

This one is so lonely! Trapped between the good and bad, just..there. This place comforts and terrifies me at the same time if you know what I mean. Angi~

[Sarah Khalil]

Thank you Angi! A place that we understand all too well but not quite at all. Unbearably large, but rather empty, but tempestuous all at the same time.

[Angi]

Yes!

[Zap-the-awesome]

This is really interesting. It makes me want to write a book about this place. I've been needing a good subject to work on...anyway, great work!

[Sarah Khalil]

I think every book ever written tells us just a little more about this place. Thanks for the review (and the friend request!)

[Zap-the-awesome]

Huh... Now you're really interesting me... All books are about this place... I like it. I must write about it. You're most welcome.

[Sami Khalil]

Bravo on this nice poem...:)

[Sarah Khalil]

Thank you!

[Sami Khalil]

y pleasure...:)

[SyberRose]

Welcome to the Cafe...hope you enjoy your stay...and what a beautiful girl you are...enjoyed your words:)

[Sarah Khalil]

My first review! Thank you so much :)

[KAOlmsted]

Your "About Me" section made me smile. I enjoyed this piece a lot and hope you post more soon...we don't bite ;-) Well...some of us bite, but not too hard *laugh* Welcome...

-kimmer

[Sarah Khalil]

I plan to! Thank you for the warm welcome!

[KAOlmsted]

My pleasure...

[End.]

I really enjoyed this. My only suggestion is make it longer. Give us some imagery to feed on for this place in-between heaven and hell. love your style!

[Sarah Khalil]

Thanks for the criticism. I agree that more imagery would make this a bit stronger in some ways, but when I wrote this I wanted it to be a small snippet of an idea as lonely and wistful as the the poem itself. Thank you so much PirateRadioPoet :)

[Mark]

"You might search a million years
To find a single human face."

It's very lonely there isn't it? Succinct and wistful. I enjoyed your words.

[Sarah Khalil]

Many thanks! The universe is crushingly vast and empty in ways that go far beyond the physical.

[Mark]

Yes, it certainly is, and the great thing about the universe is that this vastness is large enough to encompass whatever we choose to find in it. ;)