Friday, January 24, 2014

SPIRITUAL FLICKERS

SPIRITUAL  FLICKERS

Ram Krishna Singh

Plodding  away at
season’s conspiracies
life has proved untrue
with God an empty word
and prayers helpless cries


I wish I could live
nature’s  rhythm free from
bondage of clock-time
rituals of work and sleep
expanding haiku present


on the prayer mat
the hands raised in vajrasan
couldn’t contact God—
the prayer was too long and
the winter night still longer


the mind creates
withdrawn to its own pleasures
a green thought
behind the banyan tree
behind the flickering lust


I can’t know her
from the body, skin or curve:
the perfume cheats
like the sacred hymns chanted
in hope, and there’s no answer


unknowable
the soul’s pursuit hidden
by its own works:
the spirit’s thirst, the strife
the restless silence, too much


unable to see
beyond the nose he says
he meditates
and sees visions of Buddha
weeping for us


the mirror swallowed
my footprints on the shore
I couldn’t blame the waves
the geese kept flying over head
the shadows kept moving afar


the lane to temple
through foul drain, dust, and mud:
black back of Saturn
in a locked enclosure
a harassed devotee


not much fun—
cold night, asthmatic cough
and lonely Christmas:
no quiet place within
no fresh start for the New Year


Published in Lynx, 29:1, February 2014;  Poetry Nook, Vol.4, 2014 ;  Nazar Look, Year 3, Issue 35, November 2013

http://www.ahapoetry.com/ahalynx/291Solo.html

http://issuu.com/kirim-tatar-kitaplari/docs/nazar_2013_11_online/1?e=2254043/5569942


KAISERS

I've stripped light of the lamp
apologized for
the conspiracy of night
kaisers sleep with

--R.K.Singh