Valentine Day Poetry Contest is now open
- Rajiv Narang
- Jan 30, 2023
- 1 min read
Please join our contest by submitting a poem. Win a prize, and get your poem featured on our site. And the opportunity to perform the poem!
Add your poem in the comments section below.
THE CITY MY HEART LOVES - A POEM by Gina Gallyot
The city where my heart loves
Has become a valley of skyscrapers
Over development grew
Tall pointed monstrosities
Shiny pointless structures
Piercing the air I breathe
The muddy banks of my city's river
Ignored like an abandoned romance
Floods float up the debris
Faded flowers, crushed candy boxes
Broken bows and ripped ribbons
Trash the disillusioned throw
Carelessly
Till awareness sinks
like Valentine garbage
In weeks
Leaving just a stink and reeks
Of an immigrants’ dream
that endless bureaucracy killed
My valley of pointless structures
No one loves just uses
Just monstrosities
A dirty cupid's arrow in our sky
Piercing the heart
Of the city my conscience loves
The Last Poem You Ever Wrote
I miss
the person I am -
you were
when I was with you.
I miss
the endless reveries
and winged words
we soared (and thrived) on.
I miss
watching the universes
spin by, as I twirled
on your fingertips.
I miss
the sound of the rain dripping
across three oceans
in tune with your guitar.
I miss
the post cards
from every city you’ve been
thinking about me-you.
I miss
being your heartache
which bloomed into
the last poem
you ever wrote!
Title: 我要面包，不要爱情
我要面包，我自己买。
爱情不能喂饱我肚子。
多一个人，多一张口，
跟我争抢面包和牛油。
肚子饱饱，精神好好。
饿到要快死的话。。。
又怎么有好的爱情呢？
又怎样对待对方好呢？
吃饱了，哭也不太痛；
饿时哭，痛再痛加痛。
In conclusion。。。。
我的面包，MY PRECIOUS!!!!!
इस बार
इस बार मिलने आऊँ, तो ए .सी. बंद कर देना, खिड़कियाँ खोल देना, आने देना अन्दर तक बारिश में भीगी हवाएं. मत बनाना मेरे लिए पकवान, झालमुड़ी का दोना बहुत होगा, काजू, पिस्ता,बादाम नहीं, थोड़ी मूंगफली मंगवा लेना. फिर चलेंगे गली के नुक्कड़ पर उसी पुराने लैम्पपोस्ट के पास, बातें करेंगे घंटों खड़े होकर, भूल जाएंगे घुटनों का दर्द.
- Onkar Kedia
On behalf of Devinder Singh Sra
Yearnings of Yesterdays Yonder
Venerated Valentine invoked by vibrant Votaries via virile vigour or verse versatile,
Audacious ardour aflame, attracting an Audience. Awaiting all-round affirmative awe,
Love leads long line of Lovelorn, languishing Lot. Lo! Lovable. Lovely, lanky, labile,
Eves enticing erotically energized ensemble of Entities, easily entangled in ersatz;
Nevertheless, nervous Novices navigate no-no negotiations. Nudging, new, nubile
Togetherness tampering timidity, tentativeness tending from temerity to ta-ta,
Innocent itching, Invisible inducements, involuntary inversion. Incognito Infantile,
Narratives of near-misses, nebulous nerves, and noblesse oblige. Numbing? nah nah!
Endearments entwine egos, egging emotions; eloquence evolves. Exits erstwhile.
Delightful daring defying the deadening delays. On the Dawning of dizzy draw,
Allegiances affirmed, aims accomplished, aspirations aligned…