Love Poem: Romantic Love
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Written by: Probir Gupta

Romantic Love

In the brown leaves lie my valentine memory

In the sands of the dried up river my nudity

In the scent of jasmine garden your naked gravity

Who says the river flows for ever, never


What goes on until the blood flows  in the vein

Sometimes slow sometimes like the torrential rain

The images die and the images are born

In the garden you love

In the stench you scorn

Umpteen unborn too

Our lonely times are the shadows

They meet the light and give rise to the photos after photos



It is another river of both grief and glamour

The river of thought sought or unsought

Untying the knots the time forced into my spine

The memories of our valentine 

Like the  grapevine light and shade

Resplendent in silken sunshine


The equine entwine, thine and mine, the joyous resign

To the deep designs of  the sparks and  fire paradigm

Our love  responded to the crimson call



Then at the summit arrived the fall

It was lightening fast 

The cardiac agitation

Sweat in profusion

You breathed your last


 I cannot keep away from the celebration

Every year 

Wrapping the  gems and jewels

In the twilight envelope

With my valentine

I can feel the face and the kiss 

In the bliss of gray sky in the blue sunshine


Across the avenue

Two poems are kissing each other

Their dimples shine

You were very kind



The wet air

So true

A tissue


The sky turns blue


The scented heartbeat

In the shirts

Deep down the heart


February 14, 2018
For Valentines Day - Poetry Contest
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