It's all about love- ( For Meggie's love challenge)

Here are your Roses, chocolate and wine,
I won’t be able to take you out to dine.
Please, please don’t start to whine
By the way, who was this St Valentine?

Put them in a vase before they wilt,
I pretended was overcome with guilt.
He said, planting on my cheek, a furtive kiss,
Dear, couldn’t we have given it a miss?

Now, I need to really go, honey
This just cost a lot of money.
Couldn’t you postpone the celebrations,
Until we got over the slump and recession?

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry,
Love, don’t look that way, I did try.
Now come on give me a big hug
I obliged graciously, feeling quite smug.

You girls are silly about love and romance;
He said a bit peevishly, looking askance.
After all these years you must know I care,
Don’t make me overspend again my dear.

I had my chocolates, roses and wine.
No harm once a while to celebrate in style.
I said to myself arranging flowers with a smile.
just ignored the conversation after a while.

To my surprise, he came back and said,
I skipped breakfast to pick best Rose stems.
He loosened his tie and took off his jacket
And grinning asked, where dear is my present?

I smiled, got up, asked him to move over;
I bought you a cashmere pale blue pullover.
Am sure you must have booked a table for two
Oh yes, impishly I said, at Sheraton, West View.

Your eyes said it all, as we strolled, after dinner;
For it was not into my ears you whispered,
But into my heart, it was not my lips you kissed
But my soul; feeling blissful, I snuggled up to him.

He put his arm around me and said it’s cold,
For February this year, come, let’s go home.

Published February 02, 2012

rema renjini nair
ow so beautiful mamtha happy valentines day

Dorothy A. Holmes apwlts2
Ah! So tender, so real, so caring...Love teaches so much about the importance of those times that must be remembered...for poetic expressions and surrendering your heart. Dorothy Alves Holmes A Poet Who Loves To Sing

Sylvia Frances Chan
A beautiful tender write and a delicious dinner at Sheraton, West View...Wow how romantic Mamta...I've enjoyed reading your poem! Wish you much success with Meggie's Love Challenge!

Meggie Gultiano
ohh,,enjoyed reading this, Mamta..I know somewhere out there can also relate to this romantic piece of yours!!Thank you so much for the honor of entering yoiur piece in my challenge...

Kesav V Easwaran
A repost? I remember this write...beautiful love sentiments in this poem, Mamta...a challenging entry...all the best

Eyan Desir
well written piece

Karin Anderson
I love the humor and the reality of the cost of Valentine's Day, and all was well with your woman's intuition and being able to be one step ahead in the romance department. Good luck Mamta as this is a really worthy entry!

Jenny Gordon
Awesome! This flows too beautifully, as if realistically relating the Valentines Day experience as mature romance was neither scanty nor excessive, yet abundant and sensible, appropriately and wonderfully passionate to boot. Delightful. La, tell me it is only a poem and not a verbal snapshot? Impressive and too lovely. Excellent imagery too. I quite enjoyed this!