NEW YEAR

The New Year is about to begin. 2012 has been very significant: It sees humanity at the crossroads, with the entire generation rising up to build a saner and fairer way of life for every one.

We are witness to the growing voice of the people calling for change: the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, the campaign against Ireland's abortion ban, the movement against corruption, and the uprise against the rape of the 23 year old girl have seen millions of ordinary people demand a better world.

Let's hope in the New Year we experience political honesty for reforms in police and bureaucracy, change in attitude towards sex and sexuality, and respect for the ordinary men and women so that there is an environment created for peace, justice and trust.

--R.K. Singh

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Haiku and Tanka published in Syndic Journal, #8

FIVE TANKA:  R.K. SINGH
1.
The mind creates
withdrawn to its own pleasures
a green thought
behind the banyan tree
behind the flickering lust
2.
Age seems to stop
for a while in sexact
a running horse
erect and heavenly
white as a lightning
3.
Their minds
hallowed in the borrowed sun
joyous in hate
celebrate emptiness
of the pimp’s asshole
4.
The lane to temple
through foul drain, dust and mud:
black back of Saturn
in a locked enclosure
a harassed devotee
5.
Not much fun—
cold night, asthmatic cough
and lonely Christmas:
no quiet place within
no fresh start for the New Year


TEN  HAIKU:  R.K. SINGH
1.
Potholes
spots of sunshine
wobble
2.
Sudden downpour
noisy trucks at midnight
crowded footbridge
3.
Sipping coffee
at a wayside stall
cockroaches too
4.
The morning sun
fondling with tender fingers
the red roses5.
Chasing each other
in the bylane
two birds
6.
A girl
between the railway tracks
swings her pony tail
7.
Softness of wind
magic in her nearness
sleight of hand
8.
End of festival:
I stop by her haiku
on twitter.com
9.
A teenager
glides past me on roller blades
her long hair flows behind
10.
A toddler
trying to stand up by the pram—
young mother watches

--Dr. R.K. SINGH, Professor of English, Dept of Humanities & Social Sciences, INDIAN SCHOOL
OF MINES, DHANBAD 826004 (Jharkhand)



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