Hello everyone and welcome to 2014!….It’s still raining here….back to bed then – just kidding!

What better way to start off the New Year than with a collaboration.

I recently hooked up with a lovely young lady named Shruti and she agreed to indulge us both in a creative endeavour for your ultimate enjoyment.

She has collaborated with others in the past and it was a lot of fun working with a new duet partner.

Check out her blog here – she has just reached her first anniversary, so please feel free to go congratulate her at A Shade of Pen

We used the following WordPress prompt:-

Daily Prompt: Brainwave by Krista on December 30, 2013.

What’s the best idea you’ve ever had? Regale us with every detail of the idea — the idea itself, where it came to you, and the problem it solved.

Photographers, artists, poets: show us BRIGHT.

Now for your viewing pleasure, may we present to you this romantic little number.

Please feel free to shower us with your comments and thank you for reading, we really appreciate it 🙂

“A Storm Within” (by TooFullToWrite & A Shade of Pen )

In the hues of your eyes
There is a storm within
Somehow, I feel the rage
As a part inside of me aches

The soft, sensual breeze on the ocean
Giddy heights of the mountains
Hands so warm, soft, engulfing, inviting
Your gentle caress changing each time

Every stroke takes me back
To the times we together spent
Entwined in the ruddy lanes of love
As we were but oblivious of the world

How exotic these shared, cherished moments
Sat on the precipice of our raw emotions
Resonating, rampant, ravishing our senses
Consumed by lustful fires never to be quenched

Today, as I stare in those eyes
I still see the fire burning hot
My heart goes ablaze instantly
As your hungry eyes invite me in

The roar now intensifying into a crescendo
Hammering feverishly, deep within my chest
Stirring, yearning, an impetuous cocktail
Room spinning wildly, infatuation takes control

I can never have enough
I am hungry for more
The years we’ve spent apart
Has further fired our hearts

So know as I graze, brush, touch, absorbing you
Bathing in your delicate, effervescent beauty
I can’t imagine a world without you now
You balance and fulfil me so completely

Together we lay
Lost in the moment
As time freezes for eternity
And our love shines bright

For more posts that celebrate the use of the ‘Bright / Brainwave’ prompt, check out the efforts of my fellow bloggers below:-

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6. Ideas… | Kate Murray
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8. DP Daily Prompt: Brain Wave | Sabethville
9. Bright ideas | Bullet holes in the wall
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11. The Lurker’s List | Idea
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13. Brainwave | Geek Ergo Sum
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16. Luminous Leaves | Travel with Intent
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18. DP Daily Prompt: Brain Wave | nugs321
19. Brainwave | The Story of a Guy
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21. A Good Idea | A mom’s blog
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25. An Atmosphere of Imaginary Brightness | An Upturned Soul
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27. Farewell, songbird. | Randomlyabstract’s Blog
28. S. Thomas Summers | When Writers Can’t Write, They Should Write!! Here an Idea!
29. When does an idea count as a brainwave? | Sue’s Trifles
30. Story Of A 1964′s Grand-Ma ! | Shadows Of The Divine
31. The Classic Wish… Two Places at Once | Cornelison
32. Full Moon… | Haiku By Ku
33. After a Dark Winter. | The Land Slide Photography
34. Unease | vic briggs
35. Daily Prompt: Brainwave | Basically Beyond Basic
36. Bright Idea | Flowers and Breezes
37. Phoneography: Season Sampler | Light Words
38. Then There Was the Time I… | My Author-itis
39. Daily Prompt – Bright | johnny ojanpera
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42. 241. The Best Idea I Ever Had | Barely Right of Center
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45. It Began Like This… | Call Me Incorrigible
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54. The Chocolate ‘Moo’ Cake | Miss Spicy Hat n’ Sugar Socks
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