My haiku published in Rakuen

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4tj759muotvhv5g0kffe5/_-5-3.pdf?rlkey=vy02scdq1d7f7u0knl52knhge&st=lcwu8khp&dl=0 

A new Poem

 

Translation of my haiku by Nabil Al-Mujalli

 Poet friend Nabil Al-Mujalli translates my haiku in Arabic:

चांद छुपता रहा 

मैं पीछे पीछे 

भागता रहा

The moon kept hiding

and I kept running

after it

--R K Singh

يواصل القمر التخفي

وأواصل الركض 

في أثره

Trans. Nabil Al-Mujalli 

Sun and Shade published in The Cultural Reverence

 The Cultural Reverence

Sun and Shade — A Poem by R.K.Singh, India

#WeekendPublication April 18, 2026

SUN AND SHADE Contorted bodies no new myth but surreal or maybe the realist looking good but disturbing unsettling beauty in flesh abstracted figures on the beach prone over each other with furtive fingers on privates in beige, hazy, wan mixed alien colours make humans unerotic against waves of sun and shade Author : Prof. R.K.Singh ©® India All Rights Reserved To The Author

Know the Author: Ram Krishna Singh, born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is a well-known Indian English poet, who has been writing for nearly five decades now. He is widely published, anthologized and translated into several languages, with nearly 25 poetry collections, including the recent ones Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022),  Poems And Micropoems (2023), Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024), and Leaves of Silence (2025) to his credit.  More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh         https://theculturalreverence.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/sun-and-shade-a-poem-by-r-k-singh-india/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Poems anthologized in WATER

 

 

My poems appear in  Water: An Antology of Poetry La Fenêtre de Paris, Vol 4, 2026, curated and edited by Abu Zubier, Poet and Editor of La Fenêtre de Paris.

 

Ben Noah Suri, Freelance Writer, reviews LEAVES OF SILENCE

 

This anthology “Leaves of Silence” by Ram Krishna Singh gathers a series of short poems including a few Haiku and Tanka which are contemplative in nature into a beautiful garland of poetic flowers. These small leaves of silence resonate with the fractured landscape of contemporary human life, reflecting on a world marked by confusion, alienation, and quiet despair. Yet the poems are not merely observations of chaos; they are positive in their attempts to understand it. Each verse becomes a small act of inquiry into whom and what we are and what it means to exist amid such uncertainty.

Despite their brevity, the poems carry a surprising depth. They capture fleeting moments of emotional, philosophical, and sensory perception transforming them into distilled reflections on the human condition. The poet frequently frames these reflections through images drawn from nature and the body: wind through leaves, shifting light, the pulse of physical presence. Such imagery anchors the poems in tangible experiences even as they gesture toward deeper, almost spiritual currents.

What makes the anthology compelling is its balance between stark realism and quiet introspection. The poems acknowledge the absurdities and senselessness of modern life, yet they also search patiently for meaning within that disorder. In this way, the collection suggests that understanding may not come through grand revelations but through attentive glimpses including moments where the external world and inner consciousness briefly meet.

The result is a sequence of poetic fragments that feel both intimate and universal. Like whispers carried on a breeze, these poems evoke the complexity of existence while leaving space for reflection. In their spare language and evocative imagery, they remind the reader that even in the midst of confusion, small moments of clarity with perhaps grace can still emerge.

-- Ben Noah Suri

Sun and Shade

 My poem, Sun and Shade, published on Different Truths magazine,  19 March 2026:

https://www.differenttruths.com/the-surreal-realism-behind-sun-and-shade/ 

Sun and Shade

 
Contorted bodies
no new myth but surreal
or maybe the realist
looking good but disturbing
unsettling beauty in flesh

abstracted figures
on the beach prone over
each other with furtive
fingers on privates

in beige, hazy, wan
mixed alien colors
make humans unerotic
against waves of sun and shade