[Note from Frolic: We’re so excited to welcome poet Shrutee Choudhary back to the site. She’s sharing more of her breathtaking modern love poems with us!]
1
I took a shower tonight
in the spotlight
of moonbeams
and it so happened
that the wind mimicked
your heavy breathing
a split second before
your kisses landed
upon my mouth
stars began to drip
like water
running down
my body
your fingertips traced
my spine
my eyes remained closed
meanwhile
and I could not tell
where the night ended
and you began.
2
the garden in my body
to me
you were the split-second
moment, that decided
whether the next one
would end up in relief or
in the arms of a tragedy
so the day I embraced you
it meant that I was okay
with choosing
either life or death
in a split-second
and to me, that was
the very definition of
falling in love.
i hate how i know about
romeo and juliet
but not about a million
other love stories that
never got documented
for ending without
an end
so if i could, i would
write a book of
unfinished poems
of concrete beginnings
consumed by quicksand
of messages in bottles
never making it to land.
3
five thoughts by the window
1) a day is two years long
on mercury
i think that time might be
grinding to a halt here
on earth too
because a day without you
is a lifetime gone to waste.
2) a single mug sits in my sink
a lot longer than two mugs. because
you are not here to do the dishes with.
such an ordinary thing
turns into a monumental thing
to miss.
3) maybe the love i hold for you
cannot be contained in a vessel
it is as seamless and old as
the Universe itself, just as eternal.
4) i sound like a madwoman
when i write poems about love
but if i hadn’t been so crazy,
i would never have experienced
love.
5) there are so many lulls now
if only you were here
to make love to —
there would’ve been, a storm.
About the Author:
When I’m not busy being a goofball, I like to complicate my life for a living, so I can try and uncomplicate it with words.Â
I like to travel and make pictures. I’m also an actor, so I’m really all about the stories.Â
In poetic terms,Â
I’m the wormhole between reality and fiction
I’m the rhyme and the contradiction.Â
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