Haiku published in ZBORNIK, Ludbreg

 

Haiku translated

 hiding white hair 

henna and coffee paste 

stained fingertips 

--R K Singh 

إخفاء الشيب 

معجون الحناء والقهوة 

   يخضب أطراف الأصابع

--Tr. Hosni Altohami 

Egypt

LAMENT

 https://festivalforpoetry.com/2025/06/06/nature-poem-lament-by-ram-krishna-singh/

 

RELATIONSHIP Poem: OLD FILES on Poetryfest

 My Poem, OLD FILES, selected on 'Festival for Poetry', June 4, 2025 

RELATIONSHIP Poem: OLD FILES, by R.K. Singh

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

https://festivalforpoetry.com/2025/06/04/relationship-poem-old-files-by-r-k-singh/ 

  

How to Survive the Emotional Collapse

 

                          

        

 

How to Survive the Emotional Collapse of Today’s World!

Prof Ram Krishna Singh        Jun 3, 2025 

Prof Ram’s poem is a stark reflection on modern alienation, inner decay, and digital disquiet—where passion persists but healing feels impossibly distant, exclusively for Different Truths. 

 

I live in a crowd of fakes
smallness rises with age
 
my mind has ceased to think
new metaphors hardly happen
 
hunger keeps me awake all night
I mitigate minginess
 
inner lives are emptied
and filled with fresh stress
 
too many fault lines run through
to make sense of the divide
 
my passion itches and prompts
I nuzzle the virtual too
 
it’s the same virus replicating
the same hackers that hurt
 
the vigour and rigour of
the new, left or pushed behind
 
whatever the remedy
wounds take deaths to heal

 https://www.differenttruths.com/how-to-survive-the-emotional-collapse-of-todays-world/

 

My Poem published on Different Truths

 Unveiling the Hidden Danger: Focus Proximity and Fear

    

Unveiling the Hidden Danger: Focus Proximity and Fear

Prof Ram Krishna Singh       Jun 2, 2025

 

Prof. Ram’s poem explores an entity perceived as nearly dangerous, an outsider blamed for self-inflicted suffering, seeking to erase their impact for peace, for Different Truths.

 

 

It’s near but
every place has a distance
and people too
 
they flee to see
me in their vicinity
sense a danger
 
I don’t belong:
they curse me for what I’m not
self-made misery
 
traps them in hell
I can’t help their doom nor stop
their wanton rage
 
down to smallness
they hate only themselves and
sculpt new sorrows
 
I must erase
the debris of dreams they leave
and be at peace

  

https://www.differenttruths.com/unveiling-the-hidden-danger-focus-proximity-and-fear/ 

Jun 2, 2025

 

 

From Fear to Faith: Facing Dogs and Finding Peace

From Fear to Faith: Facing Dogs and Finding Peace

Prof Ram Krishna Singh             May 19, 2025

Prof Ram’s poem explores the speaker’s detached repetition of prayer juxtaposed with the stark reality of societal exclusion and encroaching darkness on their walk, exclusively for Different Truths.

 

So many times, I chanted the prayer
from childhood to now, I forget
what I pray for or want to repeat
mantras while walking at dusk or seeing
images on the lingam that stir
the flame Shiva harnesses deep within
 
my numbed feet before growling dogs
trained to ignore strangers whose lips don’t utter
their names or those who aren’t free
on a leash like them
I fail to filter the chasing darkness
from the roadside temple to Sarna Enclave

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Prof Ram Krishna Singh

 

Ram Krishna Singh is a widely published, anthologised, and translated poet with over 25 poetry collections to his credit. His recent poetry collections include Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), Silence: A White Distrust (English/Japanese, Kindle Edition/Paperback, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (Southern Arizona Press, USA, 2023) and Knocking Vistas and Other Poems. 

 

https://www.differenttruths.com/from-fear-to-faith-facing-dogs-and-finding-peace/ 

 

 

 
 

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