INSOMNIA

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...

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

Entwined
under the limbs'
petals

--R.K.SINGH

SIEGE

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

Mutilated
garden of five senses
autumn sculpture

--R.K.SINGH

AUTUMN

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

Sun rising late
slow arrival of winter--
feverish warmth


--R.K.SINGH