HARE RAM

Keeps us awake
all night their high-decibel
chant of 'Hare Ram'

--R.K.SINGH

AT THE WINDOW

At the crowded window
implores the clerk to process
his papers but
he ignores, irritates
at the end -- abuses


--R.K.SINGH

READY TO HUG

Ready to hug
the moon and the venus
from my window


--R.K.SINGH

ON THE WALL

On the wall
witnesses of the past
moth-eaten


--R.K.SINGH

PEACE MISSION

He is amazed to see
so much corruption
in the system
of world peace

his colleagues envious
of his foreign jaunt
with the UN
and earnings

in dollars, rise so soon
in career and
have the best of
life and style

while I worry about
freedom in Congo
untamed humans
safe sojourn

--R.K.SINGH

CRAVINGS

Short nights and long days
sleep loss rustles a friction
echoing in bed
the cycle of cravings
over and over again

--R.K.SINGH

LINGAM

Searches thorn apples
to propitiate the lingam
in lonely sanctum

--R.K.SINGH