Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Saturday, April 06, 2024
A Comment on KNOCKING VISTAS AND OTHER POEMS
In Knocking Vistas and Other Poems, Ram Krishna Singh’s late style, “wintered sadness” poetry provides intimate current day meditations and reflections that bump metaphors and images against soulful ironic reportage where loneliness ranks higher than a haiku. Aware of his daily spiritual poetics, Singh, in shorter poems provides comfort to readers who aren’t ailing from age-related illnesses. Using the youthful mindset, he brings the reality of shadow-chasing during the night: Alone on a “bed he contorts his body to manouvre restlessness in the legs.” In a longer poem, fantasy brings peace when the prayer to the “divine on a wall” where then the readers learn “she leans on him to kiss.” One of the two title poems (Three-Liners) that I find interesting still, reflects on the trivia in life and rejects the “illusion of self” . . . “yet the guest doesn’t show up.” The poem is philosophical while marking an intimate experience. The energy in this collection of confessional poems later in life promises the experienced readers that the “end of the season” is a metaphor after all. This reader clicks his “heels together: secret code” that requests another collection soon. Knocking Vistas and Other Poems by Ram Krishna Singh is available at the publishers platform and other sites including Amazon.
--Rich Murphy
Guest Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
https://www.amazon.in/KNOCKING-VISTAS-OTHER-POEMS-Krishna/dp/B0CYCLNL24
Thursday, April 04, 2024
Sunday, March 31, 2024
DREAMTIME by John Rankine : A Short Review
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
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
My tanka published on Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
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/