Five Love Poems
By Mubashir Karim
An Appetite for Love (II)
Lately,
I have developed
An Appetite for Love.
In Love,
I want to eat the dense clouds
Morsel by morsel
And rain heavily on you.
In Love,
I want to be
The shortest epic poem
Written only for you.
In Love,
I want to count the blinking of your eyes,
The movement of your lips
And multiply them with my kisses.
In Love,
I want you to taste
Less like blood
More like a bullet.
In Love,
I want to
Declare all Kashmiris
Children of Sisyphus.
In Love,
I want to be an ethnographer
And scientifically study
Your culture of expressions.
In Love,
I want you to shoot me
With your lips
And exonerate life from me.
In love,
I want to read Derrida
As the last love poet.
In love,
I want to call
All our private conversations
The missing pages of Waris Shah’s Heer.
In love,
I want to collect
All your clipped nails
As a souvenir of my excess longing.
In love,
I want to publish all my poems
Through your lips
As one long condolence.
In love,
I want to pretend
That you have memorized
All my poems by heart.
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Dear Diary
“Mubashir,”
She tells me,
“You are my personal diary.
The most precious one.”
The crafted words on the
Pages of my body
Blush with love.
I’m an unpublished bestseller.
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Amorous Terrorism
In love,
Most concepts are so out of place.
So when they
Asked me out of intellectual curiosity
What terrorism means
I said,
Terrorism is
When she appears
Out of nowhere
Casually adjusts her flick behind her ear
Smiles
And asks
“Are you OK Mubashir?”
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Ode to the First Meeting
Of all the photos
I have of you,
My love,
I like the one more
That’s shaky
And you all blurry.
It reminds me of our
First meeting.
You remember?
That love not at first sight epic.
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Open 24 Hours
I don’t know about others.
But
In the midst of bleak hatred,
Our love glitters like
A cheap neon billboard
blinking kisses.
We own a passionate property.
Do visit!
Bio:
Mubashir Karim is from Srinagar, Kashmir. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in English from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
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One Response to “Five Love Poems”
Beautifully penned…..liked reading it…😃😃