Tanka and Haiku
she
draws a church
on
the back of a leaflet
to
resurrect goddess
in
whose name she cried for years
and
none counted her tears
sitting by the road
she
plays the harlot for bread
men
sin, she suffers
from
police raid to VD
they
gift with morbid morals
Kali Puja
ruddy
garland round the neck
kneel
to quench the thirst
with
rum and goat meat invoke
the
goddess for sex tonight
every home
Shiva's
monastery:
cannabis
no
secrets or lies
relish
special tea
puff by puff
smoke
away their tension
trainee
programmers
on
the roadside mixed smell
of
sweat and talcum powder
seashore:
she
lies on her back
eyes
closed
feels
foam on the waves
butterflies
too
dark clouds over the still trees smelly clothesline
sex excels a host of sins love hides
in the wild
inner
echoes--
dragonfly
creepy shadows
along
the muddy road--
bright
moon
a load of wood
on
her frail back
autumn
evening
on
his epitaph:
he
died protesting land tax
on
his grave
half
of my mind on God
and
the other half on sex:
eternal
hunger
rioting flames
witches
dance in cave:
strawberry
moon
old diary--
finding
phone numbers
of
friends still alive
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 52 books, including poetry collections Growing
Within/Desăvârşire lăuntrică (English/Romanian, 2017), There’s No
Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019), Tainted With
Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019), Silencio: Blanca
desconfianza: Silence: White distrust (Spanish edition, Kindle,
Spanish/English, 2021), A Lone Sparrow (English/Arabic,
2021), Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Covid-19
And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021) ,
and 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE
DISTRUST (English/Japanese, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022). His
haiku and tanka have been internationally read, appreciated and translated into
several languages. His awards and honors include Ritsumeikan University Peace
Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999, Certificate of Honor and Nyuusen Prize, Kumamoto,
2000 and 2008, Life time Achievement Award of the International Poets Academy,
Chennai, 2009, Aichi Prefecture Board of Education Award, Japan, 2015,
Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize, Lebanon, 2015, nomination for Pushcart Prize,
2013, 2014, and Citation of Brightest Honour, International Sufi Centre: Sufi
World, Bangalore, September 2020.
More at: https://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/R.K._Singh
. email: profrksingh@gmail.com.
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