Sunday, March 24, 2024

Knocking Vistas And Other Poems published

 


My new poetry book, including haiku and tanka, is now available on Amazon. It is also listed on the Haiku Foundation Digital Library: https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/items/show/6956

Tuesday, March 05, 2024

'Morass of Loss' appears on the Edge of Humanity, 05 March 2024

 

Morass Of Loss


The chimneys around my home

print black spots on the walls

darken the air I breathe and

the water I drink or bathe in

 

the owners know how to shut

the mouths of inspectors

and the mafia know how

to make money this season

 

politics of lack of rain

repair and management

scraunch smoke from wildfires away

to country’s gas emissions

 

they have their priorities

mission to rewrite histories

erase the past and erect

new walls of divisions

 

climate change is no excuse

to mould the minds of Gen-Z

in face of imminent doom:

stay quiet at morass of loss

 

 Text ©  R.K.Singh

https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/03/05/morass-of-loss/

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

My tanka published on Scarlet Dragonfly Journal

 


February 26, 2024


foggy morning
choke humans and animals
icy darkness
around fire on the roadside
they smoke bidi with chai

            — R.K. Singh, India

https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/foggy-morning-2/

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

NOISES published on the Edge of Humanity

 My poem NOISES appears on Edge of Humanity, 27 February 2024:


I can’t hear my self

their noises erase my world

choices are denied-

questions of being wound me

courage and strength fade away


noises mute my voice

distract us from the truth

crowns change with the wind

and they play chess with our lives


they feed us dust and potions

in their new temples

arouse their magic deities

make us yell loud

and hang us upside down.


Text ©  R.K.Singh


https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/27/noises/

Friday, February 23, 2024

My Poems in Chinese





 

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

My tanka poems appear in POLEART, No. 27, 2024

 





LOVE MOMENTS: A SNIPPET

While I sweat
in mosquito-net
waiting for a kiss
she goes to sleep
loosening her breasts and
removing her feet and eyes
and covers them under the sheet
for safe-keeping

***
between her coming
to bed and sleep
a burial of longing:
her indifference widens
even touch is a no

***
await setting of
burning sun and arrival
of night to go out
for a beer and chips to soothe
her hurt spirit in moon light

***

at the swimming pool
he asks if he could borrow
her underwear just
to feel her from inside
with fidgeting currents

***
while I enclose her
in my arms
to express my affection
she suspects
I’m going to devour her
with kisses
she pierces fingernails
into my innocence

***
unzipping her cleavage
he ransacks the shelf
for the safely-kept condom:
she whispers smilingly
try something new
innovation, you know
double-barreled gun!

***
softness dies
in his pressure
much pleasure
melting elements
feed the soul in flesh

***

call it spoof
or nirvana
if you like
hidden between thighs
is the spring music
beyond birth

--R.K.Singh

Bio note:

Ram Krishna Singh is a renowned, widely published, anthologized, and translated poet with
over 25 poetry collections to his credit. His latest poetry collections include Covid-19 And Surge
of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE
DISTRUST (English/Japanese, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022), and Poems and Micropoems
(Southern Arizona Press, USA, 2023). Find him on Twitter @profrksingh and Facebook
www.facebook.com/profrksingh . More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

Published 'War in Gaza'

 


War In Gaza

Unchanged human nature

eternity passed with each prophet

spirit’s realms in rumbles…

how to search peace in depths of tunnels

through misery and degradation?

 

A sick generation

till elimination they won’t stop

for lasting peace they say they kill

unaware they too may become dust

in the catastrophe they have wrought.

 

Cursed Gaza awaits

a miracle to rise a new phoenix

to exist with Israel

despite the devil’s designs

for perpetual desolation.

 

Text ©  R.K.Singh

https://edgeofhumanity.com/2024/02/18/war-in-gaza/



WAR IN GAZA

written by: R. K. Singh

@profrksingh

 

Unchanged human nature
eternity passed with each prophet
spirit’s realms in rumbles…
how to search peace in depths of tunnels
through misery and degradation?

a sick generation
till elimination they won’t stop
for lasting peace they say they kill
unaware they too may become dust
in the catastrophe they have wrought

cursed Gaza awaits
a miracle to rise a new Phoenix
to exist with Israel
despite the devil’s designs
for perpetual desolation


https://spillwords.com/war-in-gaza/?fbclid=IwAR3n0GzOYhD1sge0ectUqmpi7iq5NxC9aScKth8u1PDa7y1Rrr61_LqjQr4

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

My haiku in HAIKU ZBORNIK--Ludbreg 2023