discoveredinalj | Discovered Upon a Midnight Clear – 7th December

Happy holidays, everyone!

Angels Standing Near
by Melanie Athene

I know this isn’t the happy ending fairy tales promise
The life we lead is hard and probably fleeting
I never thought I’d find love standing near
Never thought I’d find love at all
But somehow love has found me
And I embrace the nights
Thanking my lucky stars
That an angel’s
Blessed my
Life

Let
The wild
Storms rage on
While the halo of
His hair tickles my nose
In the darkest days of winter
My heart has found peace at last
All I never knew I wanted, suddenly mine
And though it easily could slip though my fingers
I wouldn’t trade a single moment of this precious time

Title: Angels Standing Near
Author:

melanieathene
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Sure
Disclaimer: Bodie and Doyle belong to each other. Always have, always will.

Notes: In which the notes are longer than the story :)

"What is a dribble?" you might well ask. It's a form of poetry, for lack of a better name, which has ten lines: ten words in the first line, nine in the second, and so on down to one word in the last line. (55 words in total). To double it you do the reverse: start with 1 word and end with 10. (110 words in total) This strict structure is quite visually pleasing. The image looks like an hourglass if you centre it.

I first ran across the dribble on LiveJournal in 2005. I don’t think it ever became all that widespread (it is surprisingly hard to do), but I do love a challenge, and it seemed the next step up from crafting drabbles with their 100 word limitation.

Many thanks to

cali_se for the beta