Image credit: Willow Manor @ Magpie Tales
Locked in tight embrace
His shoulder held her face
Beyond, a midnight sky
Through windows standing high
On opening her eyes
She saw a spectre rise
Cloaked, it loomed ahead
A body, then the head
The eyes that held her gaze
Now set her soul ablaze
She stood there paralyzed
‘Is this him?’ she agonized
The phantom flashed a smile
It was without the guile
She knew what she had seen
But how could it have been?!
She feared about the worst
Her heart about to burst
Then loosening that weld
She saw whom she had held
The man sunken in her hug
Was just a faceless thug
And the ghost that seemed to glow
Was the one that loved her so!
**Posted for Willow’sΒ Magpie Tales AND forΒ Monday Poetry Potluck at Jingle Poetry(THE new community uniting the poets of BlogWorld)! Please visit both of these, and enjoy the other fascinating reads here :)**
How I write, is mine...How you read, is yours 
Oh boy, somebody’s been watching “Ghost” again!
(LOL – just teasing, Kavita!)
heheheh… it’s yahtzee time for you again, Eric! π
Spooked you eh?! π I just hope you enjoyed this one…
Happy MONDAY!! π
things are never as they first seem.
You can say that again!!!
Thankfully, this was just imagination/fiction π
Hope you enjoyed the read, Ness! xoxooxx
love your happy ending to this grim tale – I always seem to fall the other way π¦
Awww… your Magpie was superb! I just read it now! Sometimes, grim is how it is…
Look at my poem… phheewww… poor gal! Being loved is sweet and happy… but by a phantom?!! Hmm… how must she feel..that poor gal!!
So glad you liked the read, Ruth…
A very Happy Monday to you!! π
It is your Monday Pot Luck,
I may have overdone it, I did not mean to shadow you…
I try to support.
That’s all..
Thanks!
heheheh.. okay Jingle, it’s OUR Monday potluck!! What say?! π
Your support is EXACTLY what we need, sweetie.. you are here, so here we are!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!
And trust me, you haven’t overshadowed a thing! Your presence is a blessing!
I will change my text right away π hehehe
The man sunken in her hug
Was just a faceless thug
And the ghost that seemed to glow
Was the one that loved her so!
superb word flow.
a ghost man loves her…what a creepy ending…
love your work.
xxx
I KNOWWWW!! How scary and weird that must feel, right? Being loved by a ghost! Phhheewww
Glad you liked and enjoyed this, Jingle..
A very Happy Monday to you!!
Happy Writing, my dear!! π
smiles. glad it ended up being the one who loves her and not some spectre…nice twist…and i wish you the best with the potluck kavita…
Thanks Bri… And my apologies for the delayed reply… potluck kinda kept me busy… this being the first ever for me, i was tooooo excited about it! And it turned out great!! Do try and make it for the next potluck! We would LOVE to have you there…
Glad you enjoyed this poem… π As long as it’s real love, spectre or alive – it doesn’t really matter π does it now?!
Have a great week, B… xoxoxo
Whoohoo, I had a chill reading this…sometimes I think I might be in love with a ghost too LOLOLOL…awesome writing and so perfect for the theme in Potluck!! Your artistry is unending…like chimes in the night!!! Loved it and Happy Monday Potluck!!!! Lovies you always π
hahahah.. so what if he was ghost .. no? Love is love anyway!
Glad YOU enjoyed this, sweetie… your saying so makes it even better for me! Yaaahhoooo
Thank you for your support and kindness throughout!
Loviezz to you… xoxoxo
Wow now that gave me the creeps!
Well done!
Pamela
heheh… thanks Pamela! Glad you “enjoyed” it! The creeps were part of the plan π
Have a lovely week ahead! π
OOOooo– delightfully creepy! I loved it!
http://mairmusic.wordpress.com/
heheheh.. thankooo Marilynn!! It sure was creepy.. totally intentional π
Glad you enjoyed the read!
A very happy thursday to you.. xoxoxo
Sweet sweet doll you gave me shivers with these lines..
‘The eyes that held her gaze
Now set her soul ablaze
She stood there paralyzed
βIs this him?β she agonized’
A faceless romantic interlude with a phantom and then you top it up with a lovely ending, falling in love with your work every day and amazing poem and the photo is worth 1000 words π xoxo
J/Wild Rose~
I think, subconsciously, I am just trying to get as romantic as you.. heheh…You are still the Queen of Love and Romance, to me!
Thanks for your kind words and insightful comments, my love… Oh, and that photo is a marvelous shot by Willow( at MagpieTales)
I am very glad you you enjoyed this creepy piece.. phantom or human, falling in love and being loved is the key!
You hold me in AWE…ever!
Hope you have recovered completely now..
Take care, and have a great week!! xoxoxoxo
I love this..spooky poem!
I wanted to pass these awards on to you:
http://wp.me/pZXMF-bQ
Aww..thank you Tasit… I am super glad you enjoyed this spooky piece π
And thanks for the award too!! This is very sweet of you… mwah!!!
Happy Thursday!! xoxoxo
Aww, loved by a ghost. Kind of sweet. Kind of creepy. Love the poem that brought us to it though. Nice work Kavita!
I knoooww…crazy idea! Spooky too… But I could almost picture it in my head when I saw the image!
Glad you enjoyed the read… and thank you for your continued visits and kind words, Chris.. they mean a lot to me!
Hope you are having a great week! xoxo
Wow what a beautiful and unique love story π I enjoy this, thank for sharing Kavita!=D
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lol.. it sure was unique! Being love by a ghost is kinda odd.. π
Glad you liked the read, Riika… I enjoyed writing it too! Thanks for the sweet words, my friend… xoxoxo
Word craft, fantasies and imaginations are fantastic.
Vitual happiness is equally good as long as it does not create a disinchantment of reality.
Real world companions may never be able to match the fantasies.
Happy ghost………..night
You are quite right, doctor! Although I must admit, my reality is equally good π
Hope you enjoyed this read… and thank you for your insights here.. I really appreciate it!
Happy Thursday!
Quite an etherial poem!
Mine is here. http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/iowa-sky/
Glad you liked the poem, Teresa.. And thanks for the kind words…
I read yours too.. it was LOVELY and so peaceful…
Happy writing!! π
An interesting twist on the photo prompt…liked what you did with it.
Thank you Charles.. this magpie, for some reason, immediately put this idea into my head… Glad you liked the read.. π
Enjoy the week ahead!
Eerie. Haunting. Nice!
Gee.. thanks, Susan! Glad you liked this one… π
Happy Thursday!
Yikes, Kavita, you had me going there.
Good one.
Aaww, Cin.. you are stronger than that! π
Glad you enjoyed the read..
Have a fun week ahead.. take care, sweets.. xoxox
woww….so beautiful. your writing glued me completely at the screen & was curious to read the entire poem just bcoz of image. very beautiful, excellent, fantastic, fabulous fantabulous marvelous write up…I’m speechless too…..have to dig ur blog now. π I came from Jingle π
Oooohhh.. that was a deluge of the loveliest compliments, Sahana.. thank you so much!! I am very thrilled that you liked this poem so much!
I hope you enjoy what you read here…
And thank you once again for the kind words, sweetie… many hugs to you.. xoxox
Another great poem. I agree with what was said above, what a flawless flow you have. I’m no poet, but as a writer of prose, I still know great flow when I see it, and a natural behind it all.
Okay, I kind of interpreted differently. Or maybe not. I thought that she found out she was hugging the ghost, and that the man she loved was on the other side of the window. And that it was sort of like a metaphor for being with the wrong guy who seems perfect on the outside, but really how you should be with the right guy who is not so perfect on the outside. But maybe I’m reading too much into it. Lol.
First of all, thanks for this amazing compliment, Ollin! Coming from an awesome writer such as yourself, this really means a great deal to me!
Your interpretation is very correct in the metaphorical sense… being with the wrong until you realize what’s on the “other side”, so to speak..
And there is no such thing as ‘too much’ when it comes to interpreting poetry… heheh π
I am very glad you enjoyed the read, Ollin..and thank you so much for your kind words, and appreciation towards my work…
Have a great week ahead, my friend… xoxo
AMAZING rhymes!! I am a huge fan of rhyming as you have probably figured out, and you have done an excellent job here!! Also, the story told is so vivid, I was thinking about it as I read and got a real mental image. Excellent work my friend.
I know how much you love rhymes yourself! And so, just to tease you, I have written a comment (with similar words) on your post too!
But yes… we do share a love for rhymes indeed! And that is a FACT! π
And I am honestly glad you enjoyed the read, Mark… what you said here is a huge compliment to me!! THANK YOU!
Have a great fun week! π xoxo
Creative write…I particularly liked the substitution of “ghost” for “spectre”
Nice one, Kavita….Cheers!
That substitution was very intentional, Em… I didn;t wanna use the word ‘ghost’ at every place…
SO GLAD you noticed it! Thank you… and I’m happy you liked the read too! Yaaayyy
Words from you mean a great deal to me! Take care, my friend.. cheers!
Wow!!–This is so powerful. I was lured into the story. It’s so well-written.
I enjoyed reading it.
thank you,
Angela
Woohoo!! And I take that as a compliment, Angela…thank you so much!!
I am really very glad you enjoyed this poem!
You are moooost welcome, sweetie.. the pleasure was all mine.. π
Have a fun week ahead! xoxoxo
Kavita, this was beautiful..and guessing i’m the odd one out, i feel thrilled with the idea of a ghost loving that girl so much.. I’m too much of a twilight saga fun to feel sad about it π
But a brilliant piece.. Loved reading every line of it
heheheh… coming from a Twilight fan such as yourself, this means a great deal to me, girl! Thank you!!!
I am so glad you liked this poem, Abhilasha!! I too kinda found the idea of being loved by ghost quite thrilling π So I simply HAD to write on it.. heheh ..
Once again, a HUGE thanks for your kind words!
Happy Thursday, sweetie.. xoxoxox
a typo.. twilight saga fan (and not fun :|)
Gotcha! π
that was a typo : Twilight saga FAN (not fun :|)
heheheh… yea yea… absolutely !! π
“And the ghost that seemed to glow
Was the one that loved her so”
Aww…a ghost with emotions…great!!
Totally!! Poor guy (ghost) loved her so much… and yet, all he could do was float around.. (sigh)
I am glad you appreciate and enjoy the poem, Asmita.. thank you so much fro your kind words here… they are treasured!
A very happy Thursday to you, my friend… xoxoxo π
Sometimes that advice from the song, “If you can’t be with you one you love, love the one you’re with” doesn’t work out to well…
Nice how you bring everything together, tie it all up, at the end.
You are sooo right, L.. thankfully, the first part of the song worked for me.. so I don’t have to deal with the second part π
Glad you liked the poem, Lawrence.. I really appreciate your insights here… it was very thoughtful of you!
Thank a bunch for the kind words, my friend…
Take care.. and have fun! xoxox
Spooky but beautiful.
Incidentally, just yesterday I saw Halloween decorations for sale. π
Awww.. thanks, Elizabeth!!
I am guessing its the approach of Halloween that must’ve inspired me to write this… aahhh.. the workings of the human mind.. very odd indeed! π
Glad you enjoyed the spooky read!! π I loved writing it…
Happy Thursday!! xoxoxo
I wanna hug like that π¦
Nice work, my friend
Warmest Salad
Luke
ps Check this out and tell me which is better? –
http://lukepraterswordsalad.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/beauty-and-the-beast/
Awwww… (huge hug to you!)
Glad you liked this one, Luke! And thanks fro the kind words… they are most appreciated!
I checked out your versions of Beauty and the Beast! And although I loved both forms, Shakespearean did it for me! The symmetry ROCKS!!! π
Happy Thursday, pal! xoxoxo
Lovely, Kavita. Love – we welcome all forms!
Love – all forms indeed! Who can ever say no! π
Glad you liked this one, NT…thank you for your thoughtful comments here…they are most appreciated, my friend… xoxoxoxo
What a eerie poem! Well crafted and spooky!
Aww… hope I didn’t scare you with this one, Talon π
Glad you enjoyed the read… an thanks for the sweet compliment! It means a lot to me!
Have a splendid week ahead!
Ooh! A very fun, gothic feel to this. I like it a lot.
Huuurraaaaayyy!! Thank you so much, CosmosCami… I loved your comment! And I am sooo happy you enjoyed this poem… Goth sure has some appeal..doesn’t it? π
Enjoy your week ahead!! xoxox
I like to think you can see through most men……but a spectral love is mighty fine with me!
hahahah… don’t we really wish that!! π Thankfully, I don’t have to wish for anything more than I already have..
Hope you enjoyed this one, Lena.. Thanks for stopping by…
Much love to you.. xoxox
A very strange poem, otherworldly, rather than in the here and now.
I found the ending spooky!
Thank you for visiting my blog.
The situation was strange alright! π Being loved by a ghost – how often does THAT happen!? But I really enjoyed writing this one..
I hope you liked it too..
Oh, and the spooky ending was totally intentional… π
Have a great day!
P.S: visiting your blog was entirely my pleasure, Friko!
Great story. I like it very much.
Yaaay…. thanks a bunch, Liz! Coming from a superb story writer such as yourself, I take this a compliment…a huge one at that!!
I am really glad you enjoyed it!! Cuz I loved formulating this one in my head… it was a treat to my senses! π
Happy Thursday, gal… xoxoxo
ps. What do you know about copyright/displaying a copyright message? I have a CopyScape ‘Do Not Copy’ banner, but I did notice that you and a few other have put (I presume in a text widget) a copyright statement.
Ohhh… I don’t (yet) have any copyright message on my blog, Luke… But now that you mention it, I AM gonna put up one π
Thanks for bringing it to attention, my friend..
When I manage to do it, I will definitely let you know how I did it!
Bravo! Genius and ingenious. One wonders how many people wake up to this sort of realization … probably all of us at one tim or another. Wonderful work. Thank you!
Right you are, Jamie! This sorta realization dawns/has dawned on us one time or another!
Glad you enjoyed the read, sweetie! I totally loved writing this one! π Thank you for the kind word and lovely compliments (blushing)… mwahhs to you!!
Happy Thursday!! xoxox
we many a times fall in love with the image of a person rather who he/she really is π
ghost who loves her……
cheers!!!
hahaha.. you bet, Wiser! Thankfully, we found our partners right! ppphheeww
Glad you enjoyed this read…
Cheers to you as well!! π
nice twisty ending! Fun read.
heheh.. thanks Kathe! Glad you enjoyed this one.. It was fun writing it too! π
Have a lovely week! (hugs)
An engaging story nicely told. Good work. – bill
Thank you Bill! I am happy you enjoyed reading this one.. and that it kept you interested!
Have a great week ahead! xoxoxo
Great one, Kavita…you can make romance from suspense so easily…I’m jealous π Well done.
hahahaha… you really made me laugh with this (jealous) comment! π How sweet of you, Tracy! Thank you so much!!
Glad you enjoyed this suspenseful romance π
Hugs to you!!!
Eerily wonderful; I liked the way her fear became something quite opposite, and that the “real” thug was in her hug…
And I LOVED your interpretation.. I am really glad you saw the change in her emotional/expression.. cuz that’s exactly how I wanted to put it too… thank you so much for mentioning it, DS.. you really made me very happy! I swear!
Have a lovely week ahead, my friend..
many many hugs to you π xoxox
lovely verse!
The twist in the end made my day:)
http://calvy.wordpress.com
heheh.. glad it held your interest, Calvy! Thanks for the kind comments! π They made MY DAY!!
Have a great week ahead, Abhi!! xoxo
This truly conveys powerful imagery! π
Wooohoo! Thanks, Thysleroux!! That compliment meant a ton to me! Glad you enjoyed this read…
Happy Thursday, my friend.. xoxox
this is sad and very, very beautiful.
Aww..thanks Trisha.. so glad you liked it though! π
xxoxox
Whoa…very chilling! This is brilliant, especially the end! Really surprised me. Made it even more chilling actually.
Also, your have a wonderful way of rhyming your words, which gives a very beautiful flow to the poem. Great piece Kavs!
Oh by the way, it also made me think of Placebo’s album, “Sleeping With Ghosts”…check out the album cover if you’ve not already seen it. π
This, I gotta listen to now! I saw the cover, and fell in love with it! Thanks for the suggestion, DP…
See..?? There are so many reasons I totally LOVE “talking” with you! Lotsa new and interesting stuff to share (other than poetry ofcourse)! π
It’s kinda HOT if it chills…no?! π Glad you liked this poem, DP.. the surprise ending was totally intentional!
And as for my love for rhymes, (sigh)…I know! It gets too much at times.. but I enjoy it thoroughly! And I am happy you saw it bring a flow to the verses… thank you for this compliment,girlie.. it meant a lot to me!!
Mwaahhzz to you for everything!
this was sad but lovely… i can relate to this because ever since i lost my husband, i had “visits” like this from him. well done, kavita! congratulations on the success of potluck poetry!
Thank you for the kind wishes, Bing.. The credit for the success of potluck goes to everyone that participated (including you!) π
I am glad you liked this poem… and am sorry to hear about your husband…
But it’s good to know that he still lives in your heart… that’s all that matters…
Sorry about the delayed reply, Bing… guests at home are keeping me kinda busy π¦
Have a lovely week ahead! xoxoxo
Oh, this one was spooky Kavita – and it gave me the chills! Partly because of the amazing story you tell, your imagery, the awesome rhyme and your AMAZING writing abilities – and partly cos I just posted a ‘dark’ poem too…we are twins in thought, like I said! lol
Chloe π xx
oh…did you now?!?!? I gotta read this dark one! I am so bloody far behind in reading, that I need at least 3 extra pairs of eyes so that I can finish my backlog in the next 10 days! grrrrrrr
Anyway, me is happy that you liked this spooky piece… hehehhe.. I loved writing it too! π
We are soooooo twins in thought!
You have fun, girl… Hope to see you on FB π
Kavita!!! I am so behind too but there’s no need to stress – because everybody knows that you and I will catch up with our reading soon…it’s the reading and the commenting that keeps the blogging world turning…as well as the inspiration flowing. Oh, that was almost a poem in itself π π
Gonna send you an email on Facebook in about 5 minutes xx
Amen to that, girl…
No pressure whatsoever!! This ain’t work…it’s supposed to be fun…so why the pressure, eh!? π
And yea, that was totally a poem by itself! π
Take care, sweetie..
Amen to your Amen sweetie !!! π π xx
Loviezz you, my dear friend…
hugs!!
Ooooo it gave me a chill! I hope you don’t mind, but I added you to my blogroll.
Oohh.. and you adding me to your blogroll gave a thrill! Thank you so much, Lisa.. Ofcourse I didn’t mind it! Geee… π You have been on my blogroll for a while now.. hehehe
Glad you enjoyed this poem, lady… Thanks once again!!
nice kavi..
Aww… thanks FiveLoaf.. you are too kind! π