My Three poems published in The World Poets Quarterly, Vol.97, No.1, February 8, 2020

[India] Ram Krishna Singh

Rot (and other two poems)

Moon energy

fills up the inner space—

call to wake up

or be hostage to wounds

that don’t auto correct

astral faults

knitting the luck

amidst the waste gods spread

I smell the rot

Burial

I want to burn the fallen leaves

but fear the flame will hurt the trees

I can’t stand the stench rains bring

the backyard is too big to clean

I can’t rescue my habitat

nor trim the trees for better light

this all reflects the shambles made

for disco of convenience

why regret burial by

taunting helplessness now

Energy Block

Frazzled and restless

bouts of anxiety

addiction, sleeplessness

spinal degeneration

pain in the neck and back

numbness in the legs

loss of teeth, libido

anal bleeding etc

failure to stay focused

and dying desires to do

what I used to do

are not mere ageing

things get hairy, scary

with body failure

ailments pop up

spirit dries up

mind disconnects

I’m hardly centred

to clean my age’s turd

on inner chakras

meditate and forget

the memories’ load

and die a new being

[印度]拉姆·克里希纳·辛格

腐烂（外二首）

月之能量

充盈内心 ——

唤醒

抑或抵押给伤处

无法自动纠正

星辰的失误

拾掇起运气

在众神丢弃的废物中

我闻到了腐烂的气息

埋葬

本想烧掉落叶

却怕火焰伤树

难忍雨水带来的浊气

后院太大来不及清理

无法拯救自己的栖居地

也无法修剪枝叶透进光

这一切混乱

不过是贪图便利

何必因遗憾埋葬

而嘲笑无奈？

能量块

疲惫烦躁

一阵阵焦虑

上瘾，无眠

脊柱退变

颈背疼痛

双腿麻木

牙齿脱落，冲动

肛门出血…

精神无法集中

老想去做

以前干的事

这不仅仅是老了

事儿变得复杂吓人

体力不支

病痛不断

无精打采

大脑短路

难以集中精力

清理岁月

积在脉轮上的垃圾

冥思，忘掉

记忆的负载

死亡迎来新生

                                 （石永浩  译）

About the author:

 Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing for about four decades. Professionally, till recently, Professor of English at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, he has published more than 160 research articles, 175 book reviews and 42 books, including Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010), New and Selected Poems Tanka and Haiku (2012), You Can’t Scent Me and Other Selected Poems (2016), God Too Awaits Light (2017),  Growing Within (2017), and There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019). His haiku and tanka have been widely read and appreciated.

作者简介:

拉姆·克里希纳·辛格，印度英语诗人，从事写作已大约四十年。直到最近，他还是丹巴德学院的专职英语教授，发表160多篇研究文章、175篇书评和42本书，包括《感觉与沉默:诗集》(2010年)、《新诗和精选诗坦卡和俳句》(2012年)、《你不能嗅出我》和《其他精选诗》(2016年)、《上帝也在等待光明》(2017年)、《成长在里面》(2017年)、《没有天堂及其他短歌和俳句诗选》(2019年)。他的俳句和短歌读者广泛。