NEW SLAVERY
My poem published in
Lit eZine Vol 10 | p-6 | POETRY | New Slavery
NEW SLAVERY
Short Poem by R.K. Singh
From the 15th floor window I watch
dreams racing on the muddied road
the ugly beauty of tomorrow
the romance of the miserable
the egotist the cunning the heart-broken
the idealist the maniacs the enlightened cheats
the crafty and the unlucky too
who conceal cavities in their shoes
in the gallery of the great tech game
fabricating newer lies and hypocrisies
of saffron politics secular faith and people’s power
spilling blood to heal a history of wrongs
create new cultural fantasy
new racism new slavery
homegrown narcissistic lords and ladies
Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian poet who writes in English, is the author of several books of poetry including Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010), Growing Within/Desăvârşire lăuntrică (English/Romanian, 2017), Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2021), Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024), and Leaves of Silence (2025). A recipient of Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999 and Winner of Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize for 2015, R.K.Singh is a retired Professor of English at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad.
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