TWO POEMS published on DOUBLE SPEAK Magazine

    TWO POEMS

 

Mystery

I’m still on nodding terms with days I hardly relish

except for memories of sex and poetry books

that’s me in stuckness in bits and pieces

howsoever dwarfed or doomed today

I grope the mystery that couldn’t be living:

autumn with songs of unbloomed spring

restive stillness mocking on the curtains

naked beings lying with blinder on the eyes

the lost moon in curse of tears never shed

the short grace period is no breather

to manoeuvre the words shelled in the skin

or turn oracular to light the vale

 

 

If i could pay

Luck awaits me

if I could buy it from

her miracle store

she gives me three dates

for her call to reach

the higher cosmic forces

she dreams me stand

in the middle of a

tree-lined park

against saffron flowers

flashes of light focus

on my serene face

the shower of gold tempts

a being of light descends

I’m offered a new life

divine abundance

defeat of enemies

and stream of love

if I could pay

for her rituals of

angelic magic

 

 

--R K Singh

 

Ram Krishna Singh , born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is a retired professor of English, writing poetry for over four decades. He is widely published, anthologized and translated into several languages. He has published 60 books, including the collections Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza/ Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, 2021), Changing Seasons: Selected Tanka and Haiku (English/Arabic, 2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁 : SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (2023), and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024). More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

 https://dsmag.in/2025/09/26/ram-krishna-singhs-two-poems/ 

 

 

 

Hidenori Hiruta's article on the translation of my haiku in SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST

 

 https://akitahaiku.com/2025/09/18/%e7%99%bd%e6%bf%81-silence-a-white-distrust-ram-krishna-singh-translated-by-rika-inami/

 

白濁 SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST Ram Krishna Singh Translated by Rika Inami

Hiruta Haiku, Tanka 2025/09/18

 

 

 

五次元の守り人たちへ

―稲美　里佳―

　

詩

　

1

　

ever evading

happiness for the now—

unfinished song

　

つかのまの

幸をのがれて

未完の詩

　

7

　

filling emptiness

waves dance over each other—

the sky meets the sea

　

茫漠の

波間を踊るー

空と海

　

15

　

moon energy

fills up the inner space—

call to wake up

　

月の精

裡に満ちきて

覚醒す

　

23

　

silk silence

the sky measures

new cup of joy

　

粛々と大なる門出の祝盃

　

27

　

stunted bud

in the earthen pot—

winter sun

　

冬陽や

盆栽に見る

小さき芽

　

37

　

darkness of the heart

bouts of quiet clashes:

midnight oracle

　

寂然の

深夜の闇に

神の告げ

　

73

　

sudden downpour- –

even in sleep I worry

about the virus

　

ざんざ降り ―

寝るも案ずる

ウイルスなり

　

85

　

house arrest:

full moon of April

a shadow stirs

　

家籠り

卯月の満月

影ゆるる

　

95

　

dreamy waves

gentle energy—

new moon

　

新月や

そろりまどろみ

夢の波

　

96

　

astral sky

new cycle of quest

changed mindset

a better version of self

sublimation of love-life

　

星空に

より良き吾へと

新たなる

巡り見む

愛の生の昇華

　

秋田国際俳句ネットワーク

蛭田 秀法

Hidenori Hiruta

Akita International Haiku Network

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A short review of WANDERING WORDS

 I have known Prabhat Kumar Singh since the 1990s as a distinguished academic, besides being a prominent Indian English poet, critic, and translator from Gaya in Bihar. It's so nice of him to have sent me his latest collection of poems WANDERING WORDS: POEMS (ISBN 978-93-6095-461-1) published recently by Authors Press,  New Delhi.  I enjoyed reading it.

Prabhat's poetry demonstrates a profound understanding of human experience, weaving together intellect and emotion in a way that resonates deeply with readers. His grasp of tradition and modernity in quotidian life, keen observations with authenticity and depth, and literary significance deserves wider audience and recognition.  As noted elsewhere, he delivers "his punches with velvet gloves spreading a set of scintillating images and metaphors."

I feel proud to join him in his revelations of human reality and  creating a harmonious and civilised society through words.

--R K Singh

Feminist Notes published in The Cultural Reverence

 The Cultural Reverence

Feminist Notes — A Poem by R.K. Singh, India

 Vol. VII ; No.3 ; September, 2025

 

Feminist Notes

Intentionally layered
internally fragmented
queer antics:

she builds up her own
sexual toolkit to prove
how coward man is

she sees a rapist
in each man detests
the male smell but trusts
one night stand
with deep thrust
long erections
and climax control
for blood to soak smoothly

she sits shrouded
in her see-through pink gown
on the terrace
inviting autumn winds
for longer stopover
just to accuse the artist
of invading her body

she curses a young bull
for obstructing her way
in the street,
shouts at hawkers

and, yet another
at eighty reimagines
fading memories
with snaky radiance
to break a new dawn

my friend says  
the dynamics change:
there’s a before
and an after
to feel life

I say yes, but I’m tired
of walking and writing
what I watch

I’m no tout to comfort
or restore the faith
of a dwindling flock in heat
culling is convenient.

Author : Prof. R.K. Singh©®
India
All Rights Reserved To The Author 

 

https://theculturalreverence.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/feminist-notes-a-poem-by-r-k-singh-india/ 

 

HAIKU published in PORCH LITMAG, Septrmber 2025

https://porch-litmag.com/five-erotic-haiku/ 

 

Five Erotic Haiku

by R. K. Singh

  

her disheveled hair
delight in disorder –
bittersweet flings

 

too inviting
her curvier lines –
décolleté blouse

 

lips to toes
searching touch all night
sheets flutter

 

on her back
write with hair a light poem –
weight of love

 

after a tumble
buried between the sheets
leftover passion

 

 

Ram Krishna Singh, also known as R.K.Singh, has been writing for over four decades. Born (31 December 1950), brought up and educated in Varanasi, he has been professionally concerned with teaching and research in the areas of English language teaching, especially for Science and Technology, and Indian English Poetry practices. Till the end of 2015, Professor of English (HAG)  at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, Singh has published 56 books, including poetry collections; Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza: Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, 2021), Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021),  Poems And Micropoems (2023) and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024).   His haiku and tanka have been internationally read, appreciated, and translated into several languages.

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13th Edition, Poetry, R. K. Singh, September 2025

 

 

 

My new haiku book from Romania

 It has been a great experience,  despite my initial hesitation, to collaborate with poet-editor Taner Murat in making an ambitious multilingual haiku book. It's for the first time I have tried to translate haiku from English to Hindi. Trust, the book 44 TWIN STEPS CONSTANTA-YOKOHOMA 1977-2021 published by Anticus Press, Constanta,  Romania will be received favourably by audiences all over the world. The accompanying video version of Hindi haiku (by Priti Singh ) provides the book an added value.