Love Unloved

Valentine day depart with grace
People return to normal self
Love now wrapped in silken thread
Sits on shelf,  lips scratched

Baby howls, there is no bread
Mother runs house to shack
Greedy world wont leave her alone
Must pay a price for favor done
Where is love? A passion flower
For every bloom, desires lust

Murderers plague the city streets
Leaders accept bribe and gifts
Orphans roam naked, confused
Officers bully with ego, pride
Where does one go?
One has no home
Heaven hates you
Justice flawed

Love is such a tricky game
Freedom squeezed
Breathless, lame
You are mine, I am truly yours
Emotions entangled to suffocation

Pure love simply cease to exist
Eye for eye
Kiss for kiss
In this world of empty cliches
There is nothing but
A twist of verse

Fever Gone

The fever slowly creeps away

bringing in the relief

and to return back to routine

Fever was a strong guest

choked me to silence

for two full days

Vocal expressions remained unsaid

Sun continued to shine

Flowers bloomed too

But thoughts bottled up

congesting up my throat

like choked-up-sink

unable to shriek.

Too weak to move to kitchen to cook

friends and family came to rescue

Puffed stuffed bread, tomato chutney

Soft cooked rice, spicy potatoes mashed

a chicken curry, a boiled egg

on healthy days, a perfect meal

But fever left me in no mood to eat

Food forced down the throat

Days spend curled up in bed

trying different home remedies

warm water gargling N times a day

with turmeric and salt

but stubborn fever would not leave

till antibiotic appeared

The fever slowly creeps away

bringing in the relief

Its time to return back to routine

and sit on working desk

Series of Poems on Quote dot In part 1-8

Sleep on Valentine Day

Lovely day to sleep
While love makes a trip
All over the universe
Declaring affection
In truest sense

With flowers
Chocolates
Golden ring
May their love shine
For ever
Like it is expressed today
Aping the bollywood scene
With song, dance and
borrowed verse
Lenghy poems
Of somebody else

I snooze on this day
Will be refreshed
With new energy
To spread my passion
For the rest of the year
Telling people
In action not words
Of how much I care
And I will mean it
For selected few
You know Who...

Happy Valentine Day
Shine on.....

Rose Day

A month of Love has just begun
I received your rose
with prickly thorns for Rose Day
while thorns brought tears
a drop of blood
it was the fragrance from rose that
Blew away the curse

Love is not just “Lust”
you wrote in a note
between man and a woman
or between man and man
Pure is love, a care, a concern
like bundle of cotton
soft and fluff

Grieve not you wrote
when love is asleep
a space is a must
for wind to flow
soon it will awaken
with freshen zeal
love does bloom after
knowing its depth

What do I know of love
My friend?
For me, they are just words
Plucked from pages of scraps