Creative Flight Journal: Bondage of Nearness - Ram Krishna Singh (India)

Creative Flight Journal: Bondage of Nearness - Ram Krishna Singh (India):   BONDAGE OF NEARNESS -          Ram Krishna Singh (India)   How long shall I seek freedom in the myths we unmake licking hairy dark...

 

BONDAGE OF NEARNESS

-         Ram Krishna Singh (India)

 

How long shall I seek freedom in the myths we unmake

licking hairy darkness or feeling sweetness of hips

through untamable wildness of the heart chase images

that abide circles of paroxysm ascending from

the mist and raw voices staring spume in the faces

as each star twinkles uncertainty crossing the moon

 

what is left to slice out of the passage through red light

except old sorrows ready to leap to the bone?

now there’s nothing to hold on to against lies that shade

bondage of nearness and the horizon I couldn’t touch

 

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Creative Flight Journal: Romance - Ram Krishna Singh (India)

Creative Flight Journal: Romance - Ram Krishna Singh (India):   ROMANCE -          Ram Krishna Singh (India) Where is room for sublime in Trump-Modi era if we talk about grief, trauma, social ...

 

ROMANCE

-         Ram Krishna Singh (India)

Where is room for sublime

in Trump-Modi era

if we talk about

grief, trauma, social justice

 

liberation, health, job

happiness in a culture

of divide and rule through

rightward extremism?

 

comics of history

in lanes and bylanes

search lingams for new world

threat murals of mutiny

 

recreating new forms

unearthly light and space

in old tales sacred for

visions of heritage

 

I don’t share their tangerine

nor stream in their landscape

even if I’m consumed

in blankness of fire or flood