R.K.SINGH: Indian English Poet

WORLD POETRY Yearbook, 2024

My two poems appear in WORLD POETRY Yearbook 2024 edited by Zhang Zhi . Published by Rubini Publication, Limassol, Cyprus, December 2024, pages 219-220.

Lothlorien Poetry Journal publishes my Five Poems

Lothlorien Poetry Journal publishes my Five Poems. The editor writes:

"Dear Ram,

Thankye for sending me these captivating poems. It is a pleasure to read and step inside your beautifully crafted work and I have now published your five sublime poems on the LPJ Blog. I love your originality of voice, subject, language, atmospheres, imagination and imagery in each of these poems and look forward to reading and considering more of your fascinating work Ram.

Thankye for your support of Lothlorien Poetry Journal and for this excellent poetry submission, which I sincerely appreciate.

Keep safe and well Poet.

Best to you my friend,

Strider"

7 November 2024

Five Poems by Prof. Ram Krishna Singh (R. K. Singh)

BODY’S NO PICNIC

Not too many issues

yet enough to upset

the mind of men and women

in postlapsarian world:

she blames me for changing size

shifting shape and cracking bones

aching joints and sleeplessness

menopausal ups and downs

she kicks me out of bed

saying my body’s no picnic

I know it’s difficult

to be a woman and wife

working and making home

I may be no saint

in your eyes but I never

tried to remake you

in my own or God’s image

I can’t give birth like you

nor can I stop the changes in you

I’ve no miracle pill

Your body, your anger

I love you as you are

let’s carry no useless weight

TOO FAR THE SUN’S SKY

Perfumeless my bustan

I couldn’t be a letter of the masters

passed years in the soul’s waste

to be what I could never be

the few bonuses now burden

like the body’s sickness stick dust

the wrinkled skin, the holes in vests

herald sorrows of Venus

too far the sun’s sky to borrow

warmth to keep the rose smelling

A MUTED VOICE

I can’t hear my self

their noises erase my world

choices are denied—

questions of being wound me

courage and strength fade away

they mute my voice

distract us from the truth

crowns change with the wind

and they play chess with our lives

they feed us dust and potions

in their new temples

arouse their magic deities

make us yell loud

and hang us upside down

POLITICS OF DECEPTION

Roaring guns and flying bombs

pronounce total death on earth

the world withers away with

the suns of science, challenging

the universe and time with

cankerous creations

viral revolution

racial elimination

structures of deception

media and power traps

in the name of faith and past

bullying the masses, seek

fresh promises, renewed

enthusiasm wrapped in

a dream scroll mythologized

to spotlight a Trump, Modi

Putin or Netanyahu

tap national consciousness

for divine descent to make

life happen once again

CHEERS!

There they tuck into turkey dinners

here we talk about free light and water

politics of thanksgiving for more

polarization, more separation

more violence, more religion, more freedom

in the new temple make more pockmarks

to start afresh fiction of wonder

crowning wolves as gods and goddesses

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/11/five-poems-by-prof-ram-krishna-singh-r.html

The Midwest Book Review adds my Poetry links

James Cox, editor-in-chief, The Midwest Book Review, https://www.midwestbookreview.com , has added links to my poetry blog. Thanks for your support, James.

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