R.K.SINGH

WEDNESDAY

2011-06-25T07:47:00.000-07:00

Every Wednesday
sadness wraps me dead:
drinking to forget

--R.K.Singh

Unwatered Spring

2011-04-13T10:02:00.000-07:00

yellow peepal
stands between me and
rising sun:
saturn too not pleased
with unwatered spring

--R.K.Singh

NIGHT

2011-03-17T02:53:00.001-07:00

The flood failed
to cross the banks
yet I drenched

tied up to the prison
that didn't exist
I checkmated

now wave like shadow
without drinking a drop
feel drunk and cry

like a soldier
without fighting the war
see night inside

--R.K.Singh

Haiku

2011-02-21T08:48:00.000-08:00

love of god
flowing through the bell
on her neck

--R.K.Singh

AGEING

2011-02-11T20:12:00.000-08:00

The drying trees
live my age:
autumn
warmth of new day
hot tea and singing birds

--R.K.SINGH

Dawn

2011-01-04T03:15:00.000-08:00

Hear in the slow
light-footed arrival of sun
sound of silence

--R.K.Singh

FEAR

2010-12-23T02:18:00.001-08:00

To avoid nagging
he gulps down pegs and pretends
every thing's normal:
keeping the mouth shut, hiding
whiskeyed breath and meditating

--R.K.Singh

EMPTINESS

2010-10-19T23:25:00.000-07:00

Emptiness haunts
with mind in the gutter
poetry unsafe

--R.K.Singh

TOAD

2010-10-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

an aged toad
awaiting sunrise--
damp grass

R.K.Singh

Her gaze

2010-10-01T03:26:00.000-07:00

Her gaze
stirs the soul--
clay in void

--R.K.Singh

FLIGHT

2010-07-24T09:17:00.000-07:00

sitting quiet
husband and wife
three long hours

--R.K.Singh

Vars Crystal

2010-07-24T09:16:00.000-07:00

verandahs
unvisited for days--
Vars Crystal

--R.K.Singh

STAINS

2010-07-24T09:14:00.000-07:00

water leakage
scrubbing black brown deposits
new tenants

--R.K.Singh

SLEEP DISORDER

2010-07-10T23:57:00.000-07:00

Hearing him talk dung
she doubts his integrity
and curses him for
emitting lava from mouth:
I regret stomach upset

--R.K.SINGH

NO REVELATIONS

2010-06-23T09:58:00.000-07:00

Widening cracks leaking roofs
choked drains in the courtyard
water logging and myriad
such small things make rains a pain

there's no romance in rainbow
I can't shape colours of morning
morning shapes my colour

I'm the first victim of my view-s
that shape my head each day
realities and yoga conspire

drinks and pills deride from clothesline
flowers and trees speak in grey
compost of years oozes no wisdom

whatever the poetry it stinks
idols on the beasts and cattle
overload the carriage
I can't deliver the burden

prostrate and worship
touch the feet foolishness
sitting on the ground
in the dust degrade

it's long fog with blurred sight
virtually blind no seer
no revelations

--R.K.Singh

IMAGE

2010-06-19T02:03:00.000-07:00

Decomposing in
the PC's memory
a frozen image
they try to trace logging in
the lady of charity

--R.K.Singh

IN COZY ILLUSIONS

2010-06-05T06:18:00.001-07:00

Before the ant-eaten roots

yield to storm and the roof cracks

I must find a new shelter

to escape the full collapse:

the facade of specious house

and dead wood midst dust and green

have popped up myths of ages

academics recycle

holding gods in the hand

in cozy illusions

perpetuate newer

games of convenience

--R.K.SINGH

FISHING

2010-06-02T03:54:00.000-07:00

With henna hue
the ascetic's matted hair
and net of words
fish innocent women
at the holy Ganges

--R.K.SINGH

WORSHIPPER

2010-05-11T21:37:00.000-07:00

With scarf on bare back
plucking hibiscus in sun
Kali worshipper

--R.K.SINGH

GROPING

2010-05-11T21:36:00.000-07:00

Fingers grope
taste of whisky--
moist lips

--R.K.Singh

MIDNIGHT CRY

2010-04-12T21:16:00.000-07:00

No use abusing
or cursing anyone when
restless and breathless
I cry to God to help me
for a while let me sleep

sexless meditate
in the darkest of hours
negotiate peace
with self and rest even if
I exist in my sufferings

--R.K.SINGH

PULSATILLA

2010-02-28T00:10:00.001-08:00

Flower beds
purple pulsatilla
winter's end
--R.K.SINGH

THREAT

2010-02-22T20:13:00.000-08:00

We chase myths in self-made Amazon
fish turtles that change colour in new waters

we create landscape of nightmares and wade through
anacondas that threaten our confidence

lost in the jungles of our own making
we beat about the thorny grasses now

look for the twin flames for convenience
cloud judgment and reality for control

challenge the Republic and divide
the defence that could never be

--R.K.SINGH

REPUBLIC DAY

2010-01-26T06:03:00.000-08:00

Wrapped in fog
one more Republic Day--
Gandhi's statue

--R.K.SINGH

UGANDA

2010-01-15T20:10:00.000-08:00

TWO HAIKU

1.

Piercing her daughter's ears
to save from sacrifice
for prosperity

2.

Feeding spirits with
limbs of uncircumsised boys
a Ugandan witch

--R.K.SINGH

EMPTY SHELLS

2010-01-08T07:52:00.000-08:00

Walking along the beach
they collect empty shells
that fascinate senses
in the salty air

feel the life now no more
but argue about the sex
of a conch ignoring
the fishermen's song

--R.K.SINGH

2010-01-05T08:27:00.001-08:00

IN the OPEN
A Reflective poem
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NEW YEAR

2009-12-16T22:05:00.000-08:00

It matters little whether
it's December 31st
or January 1st--
loneliness haunts every day
and I can't count on any

in the babel of tongues
I can't raise a wall and hope
to build a home and mourn
the fading blue that tinges
the little breathing space

--R.K.SINGH

SMOKE

2009-11-18T19:19:00.000-08:00

SMOKE

I can't enter
the sky high mind
of a crow or eagle

but I know
how it feels
in cold-wet air

I have lived
breathless winter
in the open

and no star woke up
to clean the smoke
I slowly became

--R.K.SINGH

MISTAKE

2009-11-12T03:05:00.000-08:00

Don't defile
my goddess. you smell
private parts

with sexy
hibiscus don't crack
the centre

take bath first
and then touch Kali
with clean mind

I can't let
your wandering hands
make mistake

--R.K.SINGH

2009-10-26T23:02:00.000-07:00

With sudden twists and turns
popping up each new day
life still awaits intrigues
through meandering pathways
I search the golden light
the rising capricorn
held for a Sunday Child

the labyrinths are dark
and scary but I know
the way in is the way out
I can't trip along the way
like others in blind alleys
the guardian angel
leads me to Golden Reward

--R.K.SINGH

BEACH

2009-09-24T23:04:00.001-07:00

On the beach
she combs her long hair:
Aphrodite

--R.K.SINGH

HALF-CLAD WOMEN

2009-09-14T02:16:00.000-07:00

Collecting
fallen twigs on road
half-clad women

--R.K.SINGH

NOSEY CHILDREN

2009-09-14T02:14:00.000-07:00

Parents pelt stones
at the mating street dogs--
nosey children

--R.K.SINGH

2009-08-05T03:45:00.000-07:00

Nightly flatulence
a series of nightmares--
sleepy afternoon

--R.K. SINGH

LIVING IS A LONG GAME

2009-07-23T03:38:00.000-07:00

I can't change body
can't belittle nature
prophets of doom

can't cross rainbow bridge
nor go to underworld
to reach heaven:

water and mountains
I can't neogitate
with my burdens

burial no end
living is a long game
that goes beyond death

--R.K.SINGH

INDIAN

2009-07-13T02:23:00.000-07:00

He reads haiku
over Indian whisky
in Scotland

--R.K.SINGH

SILVER SHOWER

2009-07-06T03:23:00.000-07:00

This morning
a shimmering rainbow
silver shower

--R.K.SINGH

DEATH

2009-07-05T23:30:00.000-07:00

We do not know
who cares for us
live or dead

nor do we know
our end
now or ever

which meeting with whom
is the last
we do not know

when darkness gushes
in from the breach
sky sinks down

as stranger we come
as stranger
we pass

like withered grass
uncelebrated
unmourned, unknown

--R.K.SINGH

KHUS

2009-06-29T03:28:00.000-07:00

Smells the happiness
of earth in the khus she wears:
the summer's first rain

--R.K.SINGH

THIN MOON

2009-06-14T00:18:00.001-07:00

A thin moon
on her neck hides love
in silk gauge

--R.K.SINGH

CRAWLING CURLS

2009-06-13T04:32:00.000-07:00

He sees art
in her wanton dress--
crawling curls

--R.K.SINGH

FULL MOON

2009-06-11T07:10:00.001-07:00

Hides behind
a naked tree
the full moon

--R.K.SINGH

JOURNEY

2009-06-02T01:22:00.000-07:00

4 a.m.
fear of sleeping
train arrives

--R.K.SINGH

SANDAL

2009-06-02T01:21:00.001-07:00

Waiting in the lounge
the only passenger:
sandal perfume

--R.K.SINGH

MYNAH

2009-05-09T23:13:00.000-07:00

Wings of a mynah
flutter over the water
in an earthen pot

--R.K.SINGH

RISING THRILL

2009-05-05T02:59:00.000-07:00

A chocolate box
and a pile of condoms
beside the phone:
I smell the rising thrill
the body swirls, the bones breathe

--R.K.SINGH

LEAVING

2009-05-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

Transparent
in her one-piece dress
she tiptoes
to wave at the window
but can't see him leaving

--R.K.SINGH

WAITING

2009-04-22T04:44:00.000-07:00

No one gives her
what she needs after a day's
hard work in lab--
a lover, a good night's sleep
and it passes again, waiting

--R.K.SINGH

WISP OF MEMORY

2009-04-22T04:40:00.000-07:00

I stopped having dreams
she doesn't visit me in my sleep

there's no love making
nor the night of her first meeting

time seems to collapse
I can't breathe for two any more

with forced libido
I can't sense beyond the body

the rain on the jetty
resounds a wisp of memory

--R.K.SINGH

GOD AN EMPTY WORD

2009-04-07T23:53:00.000-07:00

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

--R.K.SINGH

Holi Excess

2009-04-07T23:51:00.000-07:00

Love runs awry
in the name of Holi
yields to revelry
of color and sex:
they excuses all excess

--R.K.SINGH

HOLI

2009-03-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

Gulal
cloud the temple precincts:
worm moon

--R.K.SINGH

NOT YET

2009-03-06T21:59:00.000-08:00

It's not yet over
sex is eternal delight
I wait till next night

--R.K.SINGH

LEAVES

2009-03-06T21:58:00.000-08:00

Dusty leaves
break days of silence:
spring's first rain

--R.K.SINGH

R.K.SINGH

2009-02-27T22:37:00.001-08:00

A big fish
in a small pond:
R.K.SINGH

--R.K.SINGH

COMPETITION

2009-02-27T22:36:00.000-08:00

Two barking dogs
break the night's monotony:
competition

--R.K.SINGH

TERRESTRIAL PRESENCE

2009-02-27T22:35:00.000-08:00

In each swatch
terrestrial presence--
her nude waves

--R.K.SINGH

CHRISTMAS EVE

2009-01-09T01:37:00.000-08:00

Slowly dissolves
the mud-brick house of worship:
rain on christmas eve

--R.K.SINGH

PEACOCK BAY

2009-01-09T01:34:00.000-08:00

Naval cadets
master the waves in Peacock Bay
pelicans bathe

--R.K.SINGH

SNEEZE

2009-01-09T01:28:00.000-08:00

Fit of sneezes
no winter allergy:
thinking of sex

--R.K.SINGH

NATURE"S RHYTHM

2009-01-09T01:25:00.001-08:00

I wish I could live
nature's rhythm free from
bondage of clock-time
rituals and worship
expanding haiku present

--R.K.SINGH

INSOMNIA

2009-01-09T01:23:00.000-08:00

An insomniac
meditates at night and says:
call no man happy
till you learn how and when
he manages to sleep

--R.K.SINGH

THEY...

2008-12-08T20:31:00.000-08:00

They pour sand in my hair
and fill my shoes with stones
to make me heavy

like many I too grab
the grass and try to float
but my fingers slip

they refuse my pleas for
a rope or staff to help
me drift in current

they wish me to become
with facial epitaph
my own tomb

--R.K.SINGH

PETALS

2008-12-05T03:08:00.000-08:00

Entwined
under the limbs'
petals

--R.K.SINGH

SIEGE

2008-11-29T05:51:00.000-08:00

A black dog moves
freely among reporters
lying on the ground
to shoot militants in Taj
resisting the commandos

--R.K.SINGH

ON THEFT OF LIFE-SIZE AUTUMN SCULPTURE

2008-11-28T02:50:00.000-08:00

Mutilated
garden of five senses
autumn sculpture

--R.K.SINGH

AUTUMN

2008-11-24T07:20:00.000-08:00

Parrots stop chirping
on the guava tree--
autumn dusk

Weaving webs
between branches and leaves
autumn spiders

Awaiting
the wind's blow at door
autumn leaves

--R.K.SINGH

FEVERISH WARMTH

2008-10-20T04:42:00.000-07:00

Sun rising late
slow arrival of winter--
feverish warmth

--R.K.SINGH

LEMONS

2008-09-17T03:18:00.001-07:00

Yellow lemons
still hanging after the storm
sunny backyard

--R.K.SINGH

MID AUTUMN

2008-09-16T01:48:00.000-07:00

On the roof top
she waits for her man with
moon cake and lantern:
a flash of silver showers
on the mist-shrouded figure

--R.K.SINGH

EROTICS OF BYGONES

2008-09-04T03:54:00.000-07:00

I hate kneaded flour
it reminds of semen
in the dark of my palms

it puts me off to smell
sweat oozing from the armpits
the thighs moist with urine

in bed the body is
its own antidote if itched
for love the wasted sex

I hate to meditate
the erotics of bygones
growling with unzipped night

--R.K.SINGH

TWO MOONS

2008-08-25T23:41:00.000-07:00

Two full moons
and the brightest mars:
summer end

--R.K.SINGH

Two moons
so far away
yet so near
like rain landing gently
on my open arms

--R.K.SINGH

BODY

2008-07-18T23:56:00.000-07:00

She lends her canvas
with emotions on palate:
cries of orchestra

--R.K.SINGH

DOG DAYS

2008-07-16T22:04:00.001-07:00

Sultry heat
midsummer lethargy:
dog star shines

--R K SINGH

MORNING

2008-07-13T20:54:00.000-07:00

Rising late
rushes through morning chores:
moldy strap

R.K.SINGH

REBELLION

2008-07-07T04:46:00.000-07:00

In his ochre robe
the rebel sanyasin says
he'll drop his ego
like the skin's layers torn off
and starts peeling an orange

--R.K.SINGH

FLY

2008-07-07T04:44:00.000-07:00

Mating or sitting
one fly over the other--
I don't know its sex

--R.K.SINGH

SNAKE

2008-07-07T04:43:00.001-07:00

From the wall to bed
a snake slides in bright light
son and father chase

--R.K.SINGH

MOULDINGS

2008-07-07T04:42:00.000-07:00

Watching black and gold
mouldings behind the frame--
his dead mother

--R.K.SINGH

MOULDY SMELL

2008-07-07T04:41:00.001-07:00

Emitting
a mouldy smell
her blouse

--R.K.SINGH

MOON: A TANKA SEQUENCE

2008-06-25T23:21:00.000-07:00


Watching the moon
in the western orizon
two haiku poets
scratch each other's back and mock
the rest as neophytes

Silence of birds
and moon so miserly
I feel homesick:
mists,fogs and
leaflessness
add to monotony

Couldn't sleep all night
darkness of thought spread over
the mind with closed eyes
I negotiate fear
of missing the moon and loss

Her letter smells
the lotus she wore each time
meeting in the moon:
I touch her fingers again
with all the hopes and tensions

The fragrance of rose
seeps through the windows
coupled with full moon
adds to my delight though I'm
alone in my bed tonight

Ghosts rise to mate
in moonlight tear the tombs
frighten with fingers
rhino horns rock the centre
granite sensation

--R.K.SINGH

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LOVEMAKING : A HAIKU SEQUENCE

2008-06-25T23:19:00.000-07:00

Lovemaking
he melts into her
time stands still

Lovemaking
the sound of orgasm:
Lao Tzu*

["A great sound is inaudible, and a great image is formless," said Lao Tzu.]

Making love
she tastes the salt upon
his shoulder

Candling in vein
leaves marks of teeth on her neck
utters holiness

Unclothing
the white night:
lips meeting lips

Writes with strands of
watery hair on her bare back
a love haiku

After the tumble
buried between the sheets
leftover passion

She departs
leaving behind her clothes
over mine

--R.K.SINGH

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DEPARTURE

2008-06-12T23:18:00.000-07:00

she departs
leaving behind her clothes
over mine

--R.K.SINGH

JACKALS

2008-05-28T22:06:00.000-07:00

From nowhere
just before morning
jackals turn up
bark jump over the fence
escape chasing dogs

--R.K.SINGH

SUMMER

2008-05-28T22:04:00.001-07:00

Unblessed my altar
in bed no dance of love--
drought of summer

--R.K.SINGH

MAY

2008-05-21T02:52:00.001-07:00

After little rain
lilies smile with hibiscus--
the sun in May

--R.K.SINGH

PRANAYAM

2008-05-21T02:50:00.000-07:00

Seeing the dark
blankness of closed eyes:
pranayam

--R.K.SINGH

PURNIMA

2008-05-21T02:47:00.000-07:00

Her wrinkled fingers
on the rudraksh rosary--
Buddha Purnima

--R.K.SINGH

SILENCE

2008-05-21T02:46:00.001-07:00

Searching peace
in the dark blankness
of mind's silence

--R.K.SINGH

BULBUL

2008-05-13T02:47:00.000-07:00

On rusted railing
of the bridge waits a bulbul
for river to wet

--R.K.SINGH

GREETING

2008-05-13T02:45:00.000-07:00

Flowers turn
to the rising sun
in greeting

--R.K.SINGH

COMPASSION

2008-05-13T02:41:00.001-07:00

Prayerful thoughts
she invites with smile:
mother's compassion

--R.K.SINGH

WAITING

2008-04-24T21:50:00.001-07:00

Waiting for him
she walks in the balcony--
twilit aura

--R.K.SINGH

SELF-DEFEAT

2008-04-09T03:28:00.000-07:00

Crushed between the heart and head
I fail to get along with
my own creation

sinister and righteous
that challenges my being
for not meeting her hopes

I did what I could
but how to produce a mate
for her peace and bliss

she raises her eyebrows
and isolates herself as if
I authored all her griefs

now stripped and alone
with hands over my chest
I stand in the street

await the coffin
to reconcile the truths
I could not conceive

--R.K.SINGH

SUNLIGHT

2008-04-04T03:38:00.000-07:00

She sings the morning
with hands between the legs:
sunlight drenches

--R.K.SINGH

LIZARDS

2008-04-01T20:40:00.001-07:00

Their love game
bloodstained on the wall
two lizards

--R.K.SINGH

NAKED LUNCH

2008-04-01T20:37:00.000-07:00

After love-making
stains of dried urine:
naked lunch

--R.K.SINGH

FOUL SMELL

2008-03-10T06:29:00.000-07:00

Morning's foul smell
the birds too change their tunes:
seawage treatment

--R.K.SINGH

RAILWAY TRACK

2008-03-10T06:23:00.001-07:00

They squat to ease
along the railway track:
transistors sing

--R.K.SINGH