parchment/metaphor/heart (collaboration with jenniewren)

a step

a stop

a moment

when

all the world

is at pause

when

noise ceases

and the dream

is on halt

when

even tiny pin pricks

of light we often

take on faith

to be stars

that still exist

when

even they

pause to listen

a crisp

crackling

unconvoluted

clarity transpires

with touch

so tender come

resounding

exultation

in a dawn

thought formerly

impossible

a scale of love

to moisten

warm

regenerate

each dry

and hardened

artery that

burns

then whets

the parchment edge

of a war torn

metaphor

heart

Reviews

[...]

. ah, that love ... here's to finding it ... the passion ... the drive ... the will and the inspiration ... to shine till the end ... how beautiful, alan ... and the perfect last chapter ... i absolutely loved this journey ... and i could sense all the dimensions as i walked through these chapters today ... you cast a spell ... a magic spell that is meant to be cast ... and soon ... on a whole lot of people ... you are a pioneer, and what a poetic pioneer you are ...

[emmah]

if it were easy - it wouldn't have been such a rarity! - true love and real passion - are rare for sure!!!! and your words - and jenniewren's too - are spellbinding!!!

[jenniewren (J.W. Bouwma..]

*smiles* i posted our collab here as well. i do love your structuring, how it sort of cascades down the page.. amazing (and others thought so too, you know)