Five Love Poems
By Mubashir Karim
An Appetite for Love
Lately
I have developed
An appetite for love.
In Love
I want to write
Erotic poems about you
Disguised as passionate spirituality.
In Love
I want to breathe
All my energy into you
As a mark of protest against nature.
In Love
I want to be the lone scholar
Of your body
And write an annotated history of your lips.
In Love
I want to do to you
What a wind does to a chime.
In Love
I want to knead your cheeks
And turn them
Into colorful cotton candies.
In Love
I want all these monotonous
Clocks of the world
To fall passionately in love with Time.
In Love
I want to do to you
What the abrasive surface of a matchbox
Does to a matchstick.
In Love
I want to singe all your memories
To represent my body
As your unfinished souvenir.
In Love
I want to treat you
Like a tumultuous sea treats a ship.
In Love
I want to call all languages
Disparate tricks to keep us all
Away from silences.
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Love in the Time of Camera
Your casual look –
And my eyes break like cheap crockery.
In Love
Most often
You need to think hard –
Face, hands, eyes, hair…
It’s not easy to remember your beloved.
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Moral Policing
(I)
And when
They couldn’t find me
They took all my finger prints
From your skin away.
(II)
Forget poetry!
I actually reside inside my beloved now
Call it love if you want
I’m just afraid of moral policing.
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Love in the time of Snowden
“I love her
Less than my passwords,”
I whisper to myself
Surreptitiously.
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Ordinary Lies
In Love
Sometimes
Trivial mistakes
Ordinary lies
Are deliberate attempts
To be loved more
So
When she asked
“Don’t you know how much I love you?”
I plainly said
“No”
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Author:
Mubashir Karim is from Srinagar, Kashmir. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in English from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
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4 Responses to “Five Love Poems”
Good stuff Mubashir Karim, look forward to reading many more from you.
Thank you Cafe Dissensus Everyday.
Really, beauty 🙂
Thanks a lot Sanjeev. You can read other poems on my blog. Here’s the link
http://poiesismubashirkarim.blogspot.in/
Thank God i searched ua name on google Mubashir Karim….Aap kamaal Nhi Bakamaal Ho Yaar..Wah Maza Aagaya.