Rose Poem by Matloob Bokhari

ROSE
Let me drink rose - coloured wine
From your tulip - white hands.
Let me look into your eyes so luminous
To bloom my longing heart into a bliss.
Let me kiss your rose-petal lips only once!
O fiery touch, my soul dances in the rain!
Had they seen your smile with tearful eyes
Trojans would have never gone to Helen of Troy
O grief of my heart, O joy of my soul,
Let the flame of love remain ablaze.
The petals of rose are falling one by one;
Once withered, will never blossom again!

COMMENTS: ROSE
Margaret Gudkov: so lovely..with such beautiful metaphors..really enjoyed
Marietta Mardirossian: Too beautiful!
Jacqueline Kunst: a poem with a Dutch touch.
LaSoaphiaQuXazs: As I said, you are the real Poet with the golden words.
Phyllis Blitzstein Taylor: I feel you. Vivid expressive poetry in motion!
Iris Sollie: Dear Matloob, Your muse is really alive and active and Beautiful!
Laura Grillo Laveglia: A beautiful, joyous perspective of what love can give! true love only comes once so embrace its joy while we can. Philosophy aside, I feel it is a well written and enjoyable piece to read. Again you have given us your gift of poetry, and for that I thank you!
Farzana Altaf: this is absolutely wonderful... I love you way with wordsYou weave them well...
Karyn Walker: A poetical Picasso. Matloob, you are word- painter
Flora Vasconcelos: I love your poem, Matloob Bokhari. We miss romance in our lives. Here it is sex, and sex, a cult, a compulsive fashion, turning almost a moral excuse for something that is natural, commom to animals; and the part that is precisely and uniquely human, discredited, banalized, even ridiculed. But tenderness is the essence of romantic love, and tenderness is a blessing. Thank You very much.
Lynn Riddlesprigger: So soul stirring, wonderful work!
Bindi Sharma: Flame of love remain ablazeSuperb
Jayachandran Ramachandran: Lovely poem
Sarfraz Naqvi:
بہار رت میں بہار باتیں بہار بن کر برس رہی ہیں ۔ شکریہ بھائی جی ۔
Jann LeBleu: Sad but beautiful