Poem published in the Cultural Reverence, 9 May 2026

 

A Haiku in Hindi with English translation

 चांद छुपता रहा
मैं पीछे पीछे
भागता रहा

 

The moon kept hiding
and I kept running
after it

--R K Singh

Gasp for Breath

 My poem, Gasp for Breath, appears on Different Truths magazine,  March 31, 2026

Three Tanka in Haiku Shack Magazine No.6

Three of my tanka appears in the Haiku Shack Magazine, #6, February 2026

 

                              

                                                    Tanka – Ram Krishna Singh

 

 a tidal wave
touches the shore to wipe
my naked footprints
and leaves behind some shells
pebbles and memories 

 

(p.43) 

 

 awaiting the wave
that’ll wash away empty hours
and endless longing
in this dead silence at sea
I pull down chunks of sky

 

(p.44) 

 

 

crazy these people
don’t know how to go
down with the swirl and
up with the whirl but
play in the raging water

 

(p.45) 

 

About Ram Krishna Singh

Ram Krishna Singh (born 1950) has published poems, articles, and book reviews in various magazines
and journals over the years. For nearly four decades, he taught English for Science and Technology,
Indian Writing in English, and Criticism at The Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of
Mines) Dhanbad, India. Now a retired Professor, he has over 60 books to his credit, including
白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (2023), Knocking VistasAnd Other Poems (2024), and Leaves of Silence (2025).

Website: https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh
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'I Hear Trees' anthologized

 

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