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away from home--
smell of frying fish
in the air
--R K Singh
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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withdrawn to its own pleasures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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out in the open
seeking safe corner to ease:
rapist fields
--R.K.Singh
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scratching his groin
a worshiper offers food:
the flattered deity
in flowery garbage, holy
water, incense and sweat
--R.K.Singh
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when the sun is erotic
and the moon lyric
the winds turn tempestuous
in the orbit of love
legs slide by calls of nature
ii
you and I alive
in cold winter night feeling
warmth of your body
through erect nipples
after days of abstinence
iii
before the foamy
water could sting her vulva
a jelly fish passed
through the crotch making her shy—
the sea whispered a new song
iv
swirling spiral
of her skirt spills tides of dream
and memory:
I breathe fire in the dance
forgetting bends and twists
v
when I wanted to change
seats my friend said she can
only if the door’s locked
the light out and her mom
in another city
vi
when I have no home
I seek refuge in the cage
of your heart and close
my eyes to see with your nipples
the tree that cared to save from sun
vii
the smile you weave splits
the sun I lose my direction
in clouds that cover
the banks darkening the white
of the lake moon kissed
(From: my collection of poems Sense and Silence: Collected Poems
(Jaipur: Yking Books, 2010, pp. 200-201)
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love’s spirit descends
and melds into her body
lending it new life:
I’m amazed how the unknown
becomes one with her beauty
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With mordant comments
he tries to geld a standpat
in a feminists' meet
and turns a sook
at tea break
--R.K.Singh
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DYING SUN
How does it matter
I remember or forget
the nights or lights
that stand still
in the dense fog
nothing visible
nor audible
the thundering
planes
touch the ground:
it’s all game
of guess and vague
everyone
everything
even the tick
of the clock
this freezing hour
redolent of
crumbling echoes
I can’t divine
vision
or loom up certainty
to mock follies
of dying sun
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Each night a challenge:
suffocative restlessness
sleepless spirits’ noise
sexual starvation
anal menstruation
dingy subconscious
conspire behind closed eyes
absent healing and
wishful miracles
a clueless sun rises
bugging time and life
–R.K.Singh
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11. I CAN LIVE
I’ve outlived
the winter’s
allergies
and depressing rains
in a human zoo
I can live
my retirement too
without pension and
medicare:
the wheelchair
doesn’t frighten
I can live
uncared and unknown
survive broken home
the numbness of the
arms
the pain in the
neck
and inflation too
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crowded streets
moving among the
years
wretched faces
a sleeping snake
curled between the
eggs—
layers of leaves
a yellow spider
crouching in a
corner
invisible webs
lying listless
on withered creeper
a golden bird
a lone sparrow
atop the naked
branch
viewing sunset
a frog
bullied into the
hedge:
snake’s breakfast
on the road
an injured toad—
onlookers
parents pelt stones
at the mating street
dogs—
nosey children
potholes:
spots of sunshine
wobble
sudden downpour
noisy trucks at
midnight
crowded footbridge
sipping coffee
at a wayside stall
cockroaches too
watching dogs
frolicking in the
park—
jaded couples
dusky backyard
crowded parrots’
shrieks
autumn onset
chasing each other
in the by lane
two birds
a teenager
glides past me on
roller blades
her long hair flows
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