#photo "The Spaces Between" + poem by Diana Matisz + Chris Isaak Song

I'm honoured to collaborate with another US poet, Diana Matisz, who put her mature and sensitive words on one of my photos

I hope you will enjoy this poem named by Diana, "The Spaces Between".

Regards

Juan Carlos

The Spaces Between

we wait for life to find us

for death to take us

we detain joy

and place love in detention

an instance here

an hour there

a foot-drag

a pause

a waiting game

and while we wait

the spaces between 

the waiting

do not hesitate

the spaces between

do not wait

Diana Matisz, 2010

"Manic Depression",collaboration with poet Diana Matisz (+ Jimi Hendrix song) )

Hello,

Today, I'm so pleased to present you my third collaboration with the US poet Diana Matisz. If you mind, you can read and watch clicking here our 2 other collaborations.

And don't forget please to activate the player below the poem and listen the song of Jimi Hendrix reading the poem.

Bye for now

Juan Carlos

MANIC DEPRESSION 

You know the feeling

I know you do

it begins deep in the belly

a stirring of the entrails

an igneous eruption of emotion

firing torrid blood to every extremity

You know how it feels

I know you do

that edginess of lacerated nerves

riding the chafed surfaces

of skin and bones

the itch of containment

Admit it, you know the feeling

I know you do

the snap of synapses on overload

a drumbeat of tension

pinpricks tattooing their path

from toe to head

Yes, you know how it feels

I know you do

but is it joy or is it pain?

it makes no difference

because all you need

all you know or want to know

is release

by Diana Matisz, February 2011

                            

One of my photographs inspired a poem to Diana Matisz

Hi there,

I'm glad to collaborate for second time with my friend and poet Diana Matisz.

She asked me to choose one of the photographs of this blog and I choosed this one you will find below called "Perdido". This photo inspired her a poem called "A Fine Line"

I hope you will enjoy this new collaboration.

Peace

Juan Carlos

A FINE LINE

Standing on the fine line

between the incandescent opulence of living

and the somber plateau

of a forgotten life

he ponders his uphill climb

steeling himself against the minions of delusion

and a blinding storm of memories.

Anxiety and dismay etch lines

across his skin

as he wages war with phantoms

intent on nothing less

than the theft

of the man behind the eyes.

Perdido? No.

If you were to approach him

and look closely in his eyes

the man he was

is still the man he is

he isn't lost at all

he's simply gathering strength.

poem by Diana Matisz, November 2010