9 SHORT POEMS PUBLISHED IN SYNDIC JOURNAL, ISSUE 13



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Poetry: 9 Short Poems By Ram Krishna Singh

Poet Ram Kirshna Singh

9 Short Poems

By Ram Krishna Singh

Narrated By Charles Rammelkamp

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Syndic No. 13
July 2015

Poetry by Ram Krishna Singh

1. SPIRIT'S EDICT

 

After the death of Jesus

I ceased to be a sinner:

God's come closer with His love

 

my flame glows with passion

and dreams rise in new shapes

I love the Spirit's edict

 

2. THERE'S NO GRACE

 

Dusk is doomed

whenI shovel light

in darkness

 

fail to live

the intensity

of prayer

 

moistened eyes

draw me near divine

for a while

 

soul is light

and flowersand wings

 furl in moon

 

but soon pain

overwhelms my space

and tears swell

 

fingers feel

decaying fireflies

in lamplight

 

voice turns blue

I scare my vision

there's no grace

 

3. LABYRINTHS

 

With sudden twists and turns

popping up each new day

life still awaits intrigues

through meandering pathways

I search the golden light

the rising capricorn

held for a sunday child

 

the labyrinths are dark

and scary but I know

the way in is the way out

I can't trip along the way

like others in blind alleys

the guardian angel

leads me to golden reward

 

 

4. LIVING IS A LONG GAME

 

I can't change body

can't belittle nature

prophets of doom

 

can't cross rainbow bridge

nor go to underworld

to reach heaven:

 

water and mountains

I can't negotiate

with my burdens

 

burial no end

living is a long game

that goes beyond death

 

 

5. AFTER THE ACT

 

They practice death

in school and blame India:

terrorist politics

 

no wake-up call

be it Nawaz or Modi

power luxury

 

in angel costume

each invokes divine

condemnation

 

after the act

ritual truth burial

and peace politics

 

6. FOUR MICROPOEMS

i.

a professor

not worried so much--

shrinking genius

at his table views nudes

reviews failed erections

 

ii.

the chains multiply

wrap life in the skin of water

crying quits to an acomous sky

the mute soul suffers

the oozing filth

 

iii.

a serpent twists

its head to face a dragon

on her shoulder:

their tails on breast in water swirl

to cleanse my kiss on skin

 

iv.

her smile

with the whiff of sandal

makes love livelier:

I search Tao

in the wind's flavour

 

 

--Ram Krishna Singh

 

 

 

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