Ram Krishna Singh’s two more poems


Energy block


Frazzled and restless

bouts of anxiety

addiction, sleeplessness

spinal degeneration

pain in the neck and back

numbness in the legs

loss of teeth, libido

anal bleeding and what not


failure to stay focused

and dying desire to do

what I used to do

are not mere aging


things get hairy, scary

with body failure

ailments pop up

spirit dries up

mind disconnects


I’m hardly centered

to clean my age’s turd

on inner chakras

meditate and forget

the memories’ load

and die a new being

The Hell Is Real


They lure me with wealth in heaven

as if plucking hair would reduce

the weight of the dead body


they don’t see the bruises abandoned

on the fading skin of apple

that rolls metaphors in the basket


sleeplessly I watch her drift in dreams

on the horizon float to descend

for a share in the horrors of earth


they blindly conceal to hoodwink

god’s will for poets cultured in the past

now glittering as the sun’s wreckage


I can’t clean nor rebuild around them

the hell is real I can’t run away

with sweet nothings I can’t die in bluffs


Ram Krishna Singh , born, brought up and educated in Varanasi, is a retired professor of English, writing poetry for over four decades. He is widely published, anthologized and translated into several languages. He has published 60 books, including the collections Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza/ Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, 2021), Changing Seasons: Selected Tanka and Haiku (English/Arabic, 2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁 : SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), Poems and Micropoems (2023), and Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024). More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

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