The Ghost Of Love

 

The Ghost Of Love A Poem by Debra Stevens Edwards (Debby) The Ghost of Love(3) Love has a shadow, A ghost you could say. It follows and stalks you Each night and day. Forget if you can Repent if you must. It's a taunting thing You cannot trust. Tortured by memories Of beautiful things. you'll soon hate it and the tears it brings. Dreams as cold fingers Clutching your heart. Or the glimpse of Your face there in the dark. Memories like that of A spectre's touch. A pain as in death hurts you so much. So beware my friend, When love walks in. For the ghost of love, May haunt you again... Debra Edwards     © 2007 DebbyStevensEdwards

 

Reviews

[Juliet]

Wow I love this poem. It's so powerful and so, so true. Love does have a shadow, doesn't it? I never thought of it that way. I can wake up remembering a love I had 20 years ago just like it was yesterday, and it's the 'ghost,' isn't it?

Thank you for suggesting I read this. It's my day off, finally, and I want to eat poetry all day long, and yours was the first course! It got me started, or else I might have done something else.

Juliet

[Wicked Irish]

Beautiful, you really have a way with poetry that I always wished I could do.
If you ever put out a book of them, I will be the first in line to buy it. 10 Kudos to your poems.

[Jessica Lohman]

The circluar caress of the poem leaves the reader capitvated and humbled with closure. This was beautiful. You have genuine talent and I enjoyed reading this work very much.

[Michelle Ross]

This poem flows very nicely and has nice rhythm and rhyme to it. Thank you for sharing it with us. I look forward to reading more of your work.

[Polly Lewis]

Spooky overtones with an intriguing concept of love and betrayal. I like the way you draw a picture in the mind with your words and really enjoyed this poem although it did leave me a little sad and disillusioned.

Nice write.

[Ed Rector]

i really enjoyed this piece. it had good structure rythem and rhymes...
i'm glade you could create an image in my head that i hadn't seen before so koodos to you for that and good job.

[L.P. Hawkins]

This is a very cool read! I love the spin you put on this by bringing a foreboding feeling to Love, making us remember all those other feelings we get. Great stuff!

[Amplexus Dryke]

repent if you must? can you explain what you meant by that? Thanks

[Amplexus Dryke]

yes...I see

[Kevin Connolly]

So, so true. Until the day you find the love of your life, "love" is a spectre that haunts you night and day.
And if you aren't the love of the one you love's life, you have to keep on searching.
But one thing is true - there is someone for every single one of us. We just have to keep on searching.
Great poem, Debby.

[Paul Pater]

Love has a shadow,
A ghost you could say.
It follows and haunts you,
Each night and day.

Truer words have never been spoken. I loved the imagery that you used as to how love haunts you like a ghost. I've never heard it described like that before but I have felt it like that. Great job Debby.