Vanquished

This is great. If it wasnt love it sounded pretty close. I like the way you capture an emotion, thought and just go with it. Excellent. Kaz It's impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

And thanx, Chuck

to love is not to be loved to be love by is often not the same as to love some one in this poem I feel as I usally do I feel am was not taught to know what it is and though I may not I still desire that what I think it might or could be nice read Sinbad

well put!!! "For every shadow, no matter it's depth, is threatened by the morning's light..." <3 Emarie Photo: My mother and daughter Londyn (her first christmas this year!!!) I love the subtle cues of love...look at my moms hand hehe thank God for photograph

nice touch of assonance, and then you repeat it and twist it around, a bit like in a song... Thanks for sharing, ID P.S. Was it granduer or grandeur?

As your poem points out, it's hard to know when love is genuine. Sometimes we only realize it was the real thing when it's over, because we miss our ex-partner so much! I like the idea of you having got close enough to love for it to be worth repeating the experience. Perhaps a sixty or seventy percent love affair could be more sustainable than a hundred percent burning passion! I will soon be posting a poem called 'What's love?' and would be grateful for your comments. Best wishes, Robert.

"Is it egg on my face, gum on my shoe?" - I love this line, esp. the image of gum that unpleasantly sticks with you every step you take. It's probably both. "My stalemate in the shadows," - also think this is a very good line but wonder if it might read a little better as "I'm stalemate in the shadows." Great ending. Nice breezy quality. I agree with ID; it has a song-like sound. I enjoyed it.

if it wasn't love, it came close, if it wasn't love then fool me again. wow, thought this theme was great. Respectfully Yours, Barbara