Cleaving

A cleaved poem

Cleaving…

 

Ruined almost since birth 

I was so afraid of the pain

Wretched and wounded

I fought by running away

Somehow hearts blossomed

until my eyes began to see

Where once stood only fear 

there was hope

I could finally find strength 

in loving to you.

Author's Note

The Cleave Poem form is an experimental form created by Dr Phuoc-Tan Diep who states on his website for Cleave Poetry:

In 2006 I came up with an idea for an experimental poetic form called the Cleave Poem.

One of my aims was to examine how something can be more than the sum of its parts and can be 3 in 1: synergy, fusion, co-operation, dialectics, marriage, interdependence, teamwork and The Trinity.

How to read a Cleave poem?

Simply:
1. Read the left hand poem as a first discrete poem.
2. Read the right hand poem as a second discrete poem.
3. Read the whole as a third integrated poem.

In its most basic form it is three poems:
~~two parallel ‘vertical’ poems (left and right)
~~a third ‘horizontal’ poem being the fusion of the vertical poems read together.

(excerpt taken from http://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/635814 )

Reviews

[Bacchus]

I love this.
It really is beautiful.
I think there is something universal about this- and just enough to not be cliche.
Well done.

(side note- i hate the word synergy...lol)

[Nisreen]

A very heartfelt piece
and the truth is

in hope
lies all the doors of life

and you depict that so beautifully here