AuthorsDen.com  Join | Login 

 
Where Authors and Readers come together!

Authors | Books | Audiobooks | eBooks | Signed Bookstore | Stories | Articles | Poetry | Blogs | News | Events | Reviews | Videos | Success | Gold Members | Testimonials

Featured Authors:  Laura Cavanaugh, iRochelle Brandon, iDean Cambourakis, iTracey Morait, iJeff Ovall, iDiane Hundertmark, iMyra Darwish, iGracie McKeever, iJohn Burns, iFrank Whyte, i

  Home > Poetry > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

Elisabeth Barstowe

 Follow Me  

· 442 titles
· 1,377 Reviews
· Share with Friends!
· Save to My Library
·
Member Since: Mar, 2009

   Sitemap
   My Blog
   Contact Author
   Read Reviews




Short Stories
· The Horror


Poetry
· Nightsky

· I Dare Not Think

· The Stars

· Slaying The Past

· Heavenly Bodies

· Crystal Ball

· The Flame

· Don’t Stop Believing

· The Stalker

· Promises

         More poetry...

Elisabeth Barstowe, click here to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.

   
  Share   Print   Save   

Love

by Elisabeth Barstowe — Read all 441 poems by Elisabeth Barstowe

Friday, November 4, 2022


Poem Artwork

 Love is like a gentle
warm breeze
inside of you

It's gentle prodding
fingers reaching
to the core of
your soul

Where your inner child 
lies terrified
of exposure

Love reaches in
underneath the mask
to pluck you out
like the naked
fetus you are

Love throws you
newborn and screaming
into the world
where you're inside out
for all to see

Your beating heart in
it's raw form
lies stretched out
like a puddle of mudd
to be rebuilt into strength

Your defense mechanisms
quickly throw up a wall
as you run like hell
away from the danger
that threatens to
re-shape you

Yet strings are attached
from fates or destiny
whatever it may be
that you can'r escape
as you are pulled back
like a rubber-band
come full circle

Love builds you up
piece by piece
like a ragdoll
you're glued and
stitched together
to fit perfect into the mold
of your match

Instantaneous combustion
light you up
like a torch
from a mere glance
Your heart lies
on the ground before you
throbbing like a sore thumb

And that's when you know
you may never again
be the same
For all the mysteries
of the world
unfold in front of you

And you know
you just know
That there is
no enscape
from this Love
 

 



Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on November 4, 2022
Love seems to be floating in the air. I also wrote (and will post some other time) a poem on "secret love". Your poem is lovely, lending new shade to love's meaning.


New Poetry by Elisabeth Barstowe
hhh