COVID-19
Punitive
corona virus--
lépreuse
some say it's invasion
the barbarian without
quarantined
I clear my throat
behind the face mask
breathe in unknown viruses
suffer new repressions
now lockdown
cut off life:
castration
Hugo said monasticism
resisting death
--R K Singh
Together
exploring meaning
of staying
together 43 years --
a poet's madness:
in the park
seeing the green in her eyes
joy wells up:
she feels the silver blue
the leaves breathing her touch
Saturday lunch
at Bhuddha's bar --
my second beer bottle
they deprive in Bihar
transgressing old culture
myriad lines
in the hollow of my palms
joined in prayer
prepossessing humor
cynically exchanged
in the bright sun
my dark shadow
parts company
under the banyan
one more burial
--R K Singh
VULGARITY
What is there to relish in heaven
if the vulgarity of relationship haunts
even after retiring from earth?
the loose threads of yearning criss-cross memory
I can still feel the river's twisted flow
toward lower reaches, exhausted and stripteased
the nudity of moon and stars is beyond touch
who cares I evolve or end like them
suspended from a plane I can hardly reach?
R K Singh
MELTING ELEMENTS
An Experimental Long Poem
(Tanka Haiku)
***
Looking for image
of divine on the wall
to pray or chant
a mantra or hymn in mind
she leans on him to kiss
***
her soul touch
vibrating in depth
in darkness
***
reclining Buddha
unmindful of drinking
he and she
discussing taste
aged in India
***
half asleep
one with poppy–
Buddha’s bar
***
in the park
seeing the green in her eyes
joy wells up
she feels the silver blue
the leaves breathe her touch
***
smoked fish
in the elevated hut–
honeymoon
***
butterfly cushions
flutter the skirt
flame flickers
ground to whiteness
for her feast
***
verandah–
touching her naked skin
morning breeze
Published by agronsh on https://atunispoetry.com/2024/11/10/melting-elements-an-experimental-long-poem-tanka-haiku-poems-by-ram-krishna-singh/
From lattice window
I watch the doomed and dying each day:
