Between the Lines
i.
you stop p e r love
Why ?
do you tend t o
n e e di t ?
do you pretend t o
n e e di t ?
ii.
you st at e
‘here was love’
here ?
was love here?
iii.
Why don’t you and I stop pretending that there was love here?
iv.
I stop
I stop p e d
Why don’t you ?
v.
?
vi.
I stop
tending t o
you and s e e a love
there
there was
I
vii.
I was here
I was love
I !
8 thoughts on "Between the Lines"
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This is delightfully jarring. Well done!
Thank you!
A great poem allows the reader to read the poem on a loop. Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Of course! And thank you for reading 🙂
The way you formatted this poem is so cool, and your title is incredibly clever!
Aw, thank you so much!
Wow—a lot of attention to the pattern here
Indeed! This one was a tough one to write, but I quite like the end result. Thanks for reading.