DO TELL, WHO WILL NOT WISH TO BE THY VALENTINE?

DO TELL, WHO WILL NOT WISH TO BE THY VALENTINE?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will not passionately pine to lie,

On thy so sweet, so supple and so spacious a bosom,

Like a fortunate, selective and amorous Butterfly,

To suck the delish Honey of thy Love from thy heart-blossom,

Under the ever beautiful, bounteous and blithesome blue Sky?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will will to miss to clasp and kiss thee

With utmost eagerness, enthusiasm, buoyancy and glee,

As the greedy roots cling too firmly the soils of a tall tree

To extract the Sap of thy Love for his hungry and longing soul,

Until the delirious latter mingles, like salt in water, with his goal?

O my Dear! Do tell, who will wish in life to miss to be thy Valentine:

To be blessed with a pilgrimage to thy life’s scintillating Shrine,

To be showered with plentiful peace and immeasurable Solace,

To be finally gifted with a charming Queen of Beauty, Duty and Grace?

Glossary:

Passionately – keenly/with a strong wish

Pine – desire strongly

Supple - soft

Spacious – roomy/having enough space

Amorous – romantic

Bounteous – bountiful/ plentiful

Blithe – happy

Will will - will want

Clasp - hold onto/embrace

Buoyancy – enthusiasm

Glee – delight

Sap – life sustaining liquid of a tree

Longing – desirous

Delirious - restless

Latter - second one, here the Valentine

Mingles – becomes one with the beloved

Scintillating – bright/ sparkling

Shrine - holy place/here the holy life of one’s beloved

Pilgrimage – here, efforts made to reach the destination of finding the hand of one’s beloved

Plentiful - abundant

Immeasurable - endless

Solace - comfort

Charming – attractive/ delightful

Grace – loveliness/ elegance

©Shankar D Mishra [Sr. Lecturer in English, Internationally awarded bilingual poet & author of 12 books including 2 Grammar books] 22.03.2018

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