I'm so pleased to learn that Caribbean writer and critic Nicholas Laughlin's number one choice in the Global Voices Valentines Day poetry contest was my favorite as well! 

Madam, I am 28, single is by our South Asia editor Neha Viswanathan, a very talented and very original writer.

Here it is:

    Madam, I am 28, single.
    I live alone, and nobody
    has my Orkut password.

    I have never had a girl
    friend. Madam, I think
    I am lonely. Are you?

    Scrap me with your
    ladyfingers. On IM we
    will profess online love.

    Don’t tell me you are
    married. Does not say so
    on your very public profile.

    On Valentine, I hunt for
    empty scrap books. I am
    finding your lovely self Madam.

Congratulations Neha!