MahMag World Literature publishes two of my poems

 https://mahmag.org/blog/2021/03/25/2-poems-byr-k-singh/?fbclid=IwAR1WLehP_L9ge_4PZA9bh3oM1pTmpGBe4sdASr4WOqHKPyO3G65KGqbhiKw

 

1

SO MUCH IS DUMPED

I’m no Trump separating light from the fire
or truth from denial

he is his own fashioner of creation
out to make America great, or himself

can’t suffer impeachment
the righteousness of power is civil

he extends four years to decades
my four decades shrink the world

a non-entity lost in anybody
searching the hidden, the evasive

reprogramming the brain
for success and happiness

I can’t repair my soul
so much is dumped in the dying river

 

2

THIRD WAVE

I don’t recognize
the bright new star in the sky:
a beacon of hope
they say a new age begins
on earth, the virus mutates
scaring millions
post-Christmas repeat events
no vaccination
could change Astro-calendar
of universal revenge
remains of prayer
now wrapped in a gift box, held up
shipping delays
no burial, no third day
total lockdown, here and there

–R.K. Singh