Dr Mohammad Helmi al-Rishah translates my poems in Arabic
Ram Krishna SinghSelections from: "poems and accurate poems"Translated by: Mohamed Helmy Al-Raisha
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Original Poems in the book POEMS AND MICROPOEMS (2023):
HERE
AND NOW
I
don’t deify poets or politicians
nor
trade in faith for bread
I
don’t sell gods and goddesses
spirit
is not my profession
nor
do I give moral discourse
for
life in the next world
I
am a man like millions
who
dream struggle and
die
and
nobody mourns
my
drifty silence
hidden
in darkness
flecks
of light
enough
to weigh down
here
and now
NARCISSIST
Seventy-five
years
no
development
he
brags to self-brand
democracy
of
divide
and disturb
peace
with rhetoric
woos
with fabrications
like
Trump deludes histories
adds
novel culture
to
keep his hands clean
UKRAINE
WAR
Enchained
by his own
creation
in Ukraine
Zilensky
now counts
his
own wounds and sees
a
spectacle of ravage
before
extinction
Joe
Biden couldn’t help
the
avalanche of night
now
wrapped in rubble
none
left to shed tears
keep
memories of the sun
now
steeped in darkness
BOREDOM
Do
I not deceive myself
in
the unending flux of time?
too
worried about the future
only
suffer the present
or
kill it for the sin of bread?
now
post the covers of my books
on
my timeline and renew
the
past I never enjoyed
they
think I live blissfully
in
the locked hive of academics
RIGHTS
Mist
in the eyes
holes
in the soles
and
no plan-B
to
hit Goliath
who
cares I’m a poet
without
day job
or
pension for food
and
medicines to live?
I
too have rights
but
I’m no politician
or
seer with cheat code
to
tame shadows
THE
HELL IS REAL
They
lure me with wealth in heaven
as
if plucking hair would reduce
weight
of the dead body
they
don’t see the bruises abandoned
on
the fading skin of apple
that
rolls metaphors in the basket
sleeplessly
I watch her drift in dreams
on
the horizon float to descend
for
a share in the horrors of earth
they
blindly conceal to hoodwink
god’s
will for poets cultured in the past
now
glittering as the sun’s wreckage
I
can’t clean nor rebuild around them
the
hell is real I can’t run away
with
sweet nothings I can’t die in bluffs
NATURE IS ME
Nature
is me
seeking
my place
in
the star through births
now
memory
wild
maze of conceit
and
darkness
yet
a tiny part
a
dew drop
dotted
with beauty
LIES
In
life’s open book
they
all have a lie or two
concealed
for truths
to
reveal tranquil
conscience
unstung by snake
sleeping
deep in heart
CRY
OF A MOTHER
Why
do they ignore the clitoris when half the world has it?
the
lovers don’t care the doctors don’t
talk
it’s
no leaf that falls on the wave’s crest
and
rots on the shore before they prescribe
a
chocolate remedy or testosterone cream
to
revive in dapple light:
denial
is the way of life
be
it desire emotion or
frailty
for
conformity unity and control
the
redness of the setting or rising sun
is
too much to the drab colours of the priests
who
accuse of heresy witchcraft or immorality
to
shut the so called hotbeds of sedition
when
all they seek is stoppage
of
the show of teeth blood and skull
in
the spinning wheel
condemned
to nursing home
ONE MORE POEM BORN
I
don’t long for the past that swings and rings
I
don’t care for the future I colour
with
empty wishes prayers and meditation
dreams’
dark inspiration carves the present
I
suffer more at night than in the day
breathe
hell seeking freedom in the body
through
friends in spirit turn sanguine despite
the
tricky degeneration in shared life
one
more day passes one more poem born
--Ram Krishna Singh, Poems And Micropoems. Available on:
https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Micropoems-Ram-Krishna-Singh/dp/1960038087
https://store.pothi.com/book/ram-krishna-singh-poems-and-micropoems
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