Modern Love Poetry: In the Spotlight of Moon Beams by Shrutee Choudhary

[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.