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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The poet and the publisher are grateful to the editors of the following journals, zines and anthologies that carried some of the poems presented here:

Sarasvati (Leicestershire, UK), The World Poets Quarterly (Chongqing City, P.R.China), Kō (Nagoya, Japan), The Tanka Journal (Tokyo, Japan), Chairman Poetics (Taiwan, ROC),       Magnapoets (Ontario, Canada), Create4U (The Netherlands), Moonset Literary Newspaper (Oregon, USA),  Time Haiku (London),  Atlanta Chinese News (USA), Paper Wasp (Queensland, Australia),  Modern English Tanka (Maryland, USA),  Kelaino (Athens, Greece), Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo), Poet (Belgrade), Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku (Maryland, USA),   Poet (Chennai), Poetry World (Chennai),  Cyber Literature (Patna), Research (Patna),  Indian Book Chronicle (Jaipur),  Indian Journal of Postcolonial Literature (Thodupuzha, Kerala),  Triveni (Hyderabad),  Bridge-in-Making (Kolkata),  The Journal of Indian Writing I English (Gulbarga),  Indian Journal of English Studies, and  e-journals,  Lynx, Asahi Haiku Network, Simply Haiku, Asia Writes, Syndic Literary Journal, New Mirage Journal, EPN, Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, Akita International Haiku Network, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Haiku Reality,  and World Haiku Review.

Some poems have also appeared in the following anthologies/collections:

Busy Bee Book of Contemporary Indian English Poetry (eds: P. Raja and Rita Nath Keshari). Pondicherry: Busy Bee Books, 2007.

Contemporary Poets (ed: M.S. Venkata Ramaiah). Bangalore: Biz Buzz, 2009.

A Dictionary of Contemporary International Poets (eds: Choi Lai Sheung and Zhang Zhi). Chongqing City: The Earth Culture Press, 2010.

Sense and Silence: Collected Poems  (R.K. Singh). Jaipur: Yking Books, 2010.

Sexless Solitude and Other Poems (R.K.Singh). Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 2009.

The River Returns (R.K. Singh). Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 2006.

                                                                                                     

                                                        PREFACE

Life is too real to be believed, yet we must keep dreaming and try to live with a resonance of what we think while we touch various levels of reality—political, social, personal, or spiritual—and  be ourselves.

Genuine poetry happens as an event  to  be truthful, clear, courageous, and honest to oneself; to be open about things one often tries to conceal. Poetry provides an opportunity for expressing ones intimate moments with the same passion as while talking about the interwoven outer realities.

I also view it as the expression of cosmic, organic, erotic life, creating its own forms, expressing itself and, in being expressed, finds its voice. 

My experience convinces me that we are not limited by what we are, but we are limited by what we are not.  Poetry becomes a means to overcome this limitation, and thus, allows us not only to know ourselves but also to expand on what we are. 

This means we should remain open to healthy revisions that we can make to our way of thinking, and incorporate new perspectives into our outlook.  In other words, we should  not let our own rigidity destroy our potential, but rather we should evince a forward-looking, tolerant, and open mindset if we wish to create future.

I don’t know if my poetry fits in what I think at the moment but poetry does help us traverse the boundaries of hesitation to see the joy of fulfillment.

I am grateful to  Mr Sudarshan Kcherry for readily agreeing to publish this collection and support my creativity.

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                    --R.K. Singh

Contents

1.     Death

2.     Labyrinths

3.     Mistake

4.     Smoke

5.     Fisherman’s Song

6.     Threat

7.     Midnight Cry

8.     Games of Convenience

9.     Unheard Silences

10.                         Revelations

11.                         Poetry Unsafe

12.                         Dust Smells

13.                        One Day I’ll Sleep Well

14.                        I Carry the Tomb

15.                        Temple

16.                        War

17.                        Saints’ Blasphemy

18.                        Rituals

19.                        There’s No Music

20.                        Time is Running Out

21.                        Necklace

22.                        Vision

23.                        His Smile is Fake

24.                        Trekking

25.                        When She Smiles Her Sex

26.                        Hunger

27.                        Delusion

28.                        Pollution

29.                        Creativity

30.                        Liberation

31.                        Kamakhya

32.                        Debris

33.                        Tombstone

34.                        There’s No Grace

35.                        Meditation

36.                        Karmic Credit

37.                        Bones Breathe

38.                        A Long Game

39.                        Tunnel

40.                        Rainbow

41.                        Solitude

42.                        Rotten Rat

43.                        Too Painful

44.                        Pain

45.                        Valley of Self

46.                        Snake

47.                        Wisdom

48.                        Helplessness

49.                        Elements Clack

50.                        It’s More Voluptuous to Float

51.                        Eyeless Jagannath

52.                        Decay with Divinity

53.                        Night’s Silence

  SOME SHORTER POEMS

            Tanka                                                                                     

            Haiku                                                                                     

Copyright: Ram Krishna Singh