Poems by Ram Krishna Singh

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OLD FILES

I burn my years and erase
memories that couldn’t be stacked
against the wall of a broken home

I’m too old to hold out long
the fall is certain
and the burden too much

I can’t be a hostage to the past
nobody would buy
the smoke is momentary
and the heat hurts more

let me live life through my self
doing nothing, thinking nothing
just sitting silently and watching
time takes care of the rest   and life too

R.K. Singh

FIVE MICROPOEMS

i.

I knock at your body’s door
or peep into the room
through the little crack
for a bit of love
squeezing my rise above
the cynosure and reduce
to a drop at the labial path

ii.

vagina museum:
painted feminity
jelly fish rising from deep
no good luck, gropers asked
not to touch the cleavage

iii.

taunting the old pain
in the brothel of bed
kitchen or shower
she fears the freaking bodies
snaky arousal and peak

iv.

teary eyes
with sparks and lightning
dried vision
caged existence
seek deliverance
muttering old prayers

v.

I grow wings to become a bird
on bed rising to dream in a room
that couldn’t be church to breed hope:
end up a small hope in grave
no sun reaches to raise me again

R.K. Singh

Bio note: Ram Krishna Singh, also known as R.K.Singh, has been writing  for over four decades now . Born (31 December 1950), brought up and educated in Varanasi, he has been professionally concerned with teaching and research in the areas of English language teaching, especially for Science and Technology, and Indian English Poetry practices. Till the end of 2015,  Professor of English at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, Dr Singh has published 60 books, including  poetry collections Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019),  A Lone Sparrow (e-book, English/Arabic, 2021),  Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021),  Changing Seasons: Selected Tanka and Haiku (e-book, English/Arabic, 2021),    白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022),  Poems And Micropoems (2023), and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024).   His haiku and tanka have been internationally read, appreciated and translated into over 30 languages. Find him on ‘X’ @profrksingh  and  on Facebook  www.facebook.com/profrksingh.
More at: https://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/R.K._Singh                     

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