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SOME  TANKA

The  mirror swallowed
my footprints on the shore
I couldn’t blame the waves
the geese kept flying over the head
the shadows  kept  moving afar


Professors  beware
intellectual success
lies in inventing
lies to conceal common truths
and sound holier-than-thou


Little candles fail
to illumine the deity
or golden dome
in the valley darkness reigns
and god too awaits light


The mind creates
withdrawn to its own pleasures
a green thought
behind the banyan tree
behind the flickering lust


The drying trees
live my age:
autumn
warmth of new day
hot tea and singing birds


Plodding away at
season’s conspiracies
life has proved untrue
with God an empty word
and prayers helpless  cries


On the roof top
she waits for her man with
moon cake and lantern:
a flash of silver showers
on the  mist-shrouded figure


The god fire
in the soul forces back
my secret fall
I feel the retarding weight
in the fate’s deadly turn


Unknowable
the soul’s pursuits hidden
by its own works:
the spirit’s thirst, the strife
the restless silence, too much     


Copyright:  Ram Krishna Singh

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