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

[Dawn Davis]

DAMN GOOD WRIGHT!!!!! Oustandly said!!!!!!

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[brittanyjane]

Very good! The rhyme was simple and it was a great read. It had emotion in it, and it was a wonderful piece. Beautiful....

[Paula Lehman]

Overall, I enjoyed this poem. The rhyme scheme, though simple, has a nice flow and the short lines work to the poem's benefit. However, I would really like to see some more concrete imagery here. The concept of ghosts and spectres is interesting, but I think of love and heartbreak, particularly, as certainly having concrete aspects. For example, catching a whiff of the former loves perfume, finding an old picture years later, watching something you watched together, hearing mention of them from friends. Or maybe some heartbroken behavior, without being cliche. That's just a suggestion. It's fine without it, but I would find it more hard hitting if you could give this ghost of love a bit of a body, if you will. Thanks for the great poem and keep writing! I enjoyed it.

[Gandré]

Your poem is so true and a kind of apparent relaxation; yet exitement. I liked this:

Tortured by memories�
Of beautiful things.
you�ll soon hate it
and the tears it brings. ======= I didn't experience this but I 've read a lot about it. you hit the point beautifully. Bravo. thx for posting this.

[Erik Morales]

yeah, its really crazy that even though the person you loved is gone, they still reappear somewhere on a daily basis.

[D . R . Marais]

oooo... my favorite of yours so far... its interesting how love can stain someone's soul. I don't think anyone can not relate to this...

Tortured by memories�
Of beautiful things.

so well put and the ending is like a punch in the face... powerful ending

[Phibby Venable]

Congrats!! nice work!

[Miles McGee]

its true. its like that song owner of a lonely heart being much better than the owner of a broken heart. we enjoy only one side of love, with it. we tend to forget what love is without it

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Very interesting write! I love the haunting...so to speak. Thanks for sharing.
Siddartha