Modern Love Poems: Snowflakes Taste Like Nostalgia by Shrutee Choudhary

[Note from Frolic: We’re so excited to have poet Shrutee Choudhary sharing three more original love poems with us today. Take it away, Shrutee!]

1.

I was never this person, so I can’t tell if it’s an aberration of some kind or a pleasant change. 

But when we met, the clouds took over my demeanour, and it rained and it thundered 

until I surrendered to something inexplicable, entirely. 

My walls are down now and I’m barefoot in the grass, unsure of how I feel about it. 

And there is something about your face that turns me into a shimmering cityscape, and my glow in the dark skin can’t get enough of you. 

The wine from that night is still fermenting my words, I’m a tongue tied, spellbound mess

unable to confess — even to myself; the things I already know.

2.

snowflakes taste like nostalgia

life is a scene out of a holiday movie

you spike my hot chocolate with rum 

I feel tingles in places I had been numb

when past is the present

it isn’t exactly a postcard moment

memories are spiked with fabrications

only once you’ve moved on

I wake up within a love song

inside a snow globe

and I find my last sliver of hope

in moments before I lost it to time

in whirlwind memories — then bitter, now sweet

from back when you were mine.

3.

it’s as if somebody panic-bought 

all the metaphors from my stores

because I can’t seem to find 

the words anymore

and what am I without them 

but merely an outline of a person? 

so you can lie down upon 

my hammock flesh and bones

sink deep inside my hollow grounds 

float in my bare ocean or 

leave your footprints on my heart’s by-lanes 

I have all the space in the world 

to hold you.