R.K.SINGH INDIA
A Former Professor of English at IIT-ISM, he has been writing poetry for over four decades. His recent poetry collections include POEMS AND MICROPOEMS (2023) and KNOCKING VISTAS AND OTHER POEMS (2024).
- hurrying at red light is no exception be it traffic or sex movement is the essence and time matters --R.K.Singh #poetry #micropoem #tanka
- night's prisoned friends keep me awake with planes flying over the ashram every now and then I watch the direction matters --R K Singh #tanka #micropoem #poetry
- 3 a.m. a pale moon from window-- insomnia --R K Singh #haiku #micropoem
- My poems published in Verbal Art, Vol.8, Issue 1, April-June 2024
- Poet friend Taro Hokkyo translates my haiku into Japanese: ねじくれた 男の使われぬまま ネットの女に取り残される --Taro Hokkyo twisted men after years of disuse left with women online --R K Singh #Haiku #micropoem #Japanese
- My poems published in Phenomenal Literature, Vol.9, No.1, July-September 2024
- Poet friend Adao Wons translates my poem: Homens pervertidos após anos de desuso deixados com mulheres online --Tr. Adao Wons twisted men after years of disuse left with women online --R K Singh
- twisted men after years of disuse left with women online --R K Singh #micropoem #haiku
- Published on Different Truths, 30 April 2025
- Here's a review of my poetry book KNOCKING VISTAS AND OTHER POEMS published in Poetcrit Vol.38 No.1 January-June 2025
- so many patients so many diseases masked faces in Fortis I inhale microbes in AC lounge --R.K.Singh #poetry #micropoem #tanka
- Flowers don't bloom in tribute to builders' apathy the trees are dying: they too know they'll be felled or the heat will kill the concrete rises calamity too will rise none talk the ruins they bring --R K Singh #poetry
- My poem appears on Different Truths, 30 April 2025 www.differenttruths.com/mahakaal/
- Here's a review of my poetry book GROWING WITHIN published in Muse India: museindia.com/Home/ViewCon...
- reconciling inner jerks in the train running homeward --R K Singh (Composed on January 8, 1973) #Haiku
- My haiku published in Different Truths, 26 April 2025 www.differenttruths.com/sunrise-a-ha...
- mist in the eyes her back on the chair-- evening dryness --R K Singh #haiku
- not left alone midnight misery-- easter season #Haiku
- The snarl of traffic-- near red light bikes zig-zag on broken footpaths at Bannerghatta Rd pedestrians seek safe space --R K Singh #micropoem #tanka #Bangalore
- I knock at your body's door or peep into the room through the little crack for a bit of love squeezing my rise above the cynosure and reduce to a drop at the labial path --R K Singh #erotic #passion #micropoem #sex
- Seeking your support for my poetry book TAINTED WITH PRAYERS, www.amazon.com/dp/B0831WC3P1
- Happy International Haiku Poetry Day after the storm picking fallen tamarind-- too high the tree post-lunch nap-- lying in anonymity Bangalore midnight moon senses aroused-- lift the veil --R K Singh
- My two award-winning #haiku
- summer afternoon on the train to Amritsar squirrels frisk near track --R K Singh #haiku
- My poem Mahakumbh on The Fringe999 Poetry Forum, April 11, 2025
- My poem published on The Fringe999 Poetry Forum, 11 April 2025 thefringe999.substack.com/p/poetry-forum
- Because he was intelligent and his talent wrecked his life he wants his son to grow ignorant and stupid that he enjoys a quiet life by becoming a cabinet minister --R.K.Singh
- TULIP SILENCE I clasp your hands and feel the blood running savagely through your arteries in tulip silence --R K Singh (First published in INDO-AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, ed. V.S. Skanda Prasad, 1984)
- hitching up the skirt she fills her pockets with unripe mangoes --R.K.Singh #Haiku
- Good Friday clouds and wind without rain: boasts of giving --R.K. Singh
- flowing darkness consumes the shadow of shadows midnight sensation --R.K.Singh #Haiku #micropoem
- My #tanka published in cc&d magazine and anthology available from www.amazon.com/dp/B0F13ZGKD6
- professors beware intellectual success lies in inventing lies to conceal common truths and sound holier-than-thou -R K Singh #micropoem
- when she stretches her legs for me to shave the pubic hair we hit the hay together remembering the first night I gave her nothing in my hurry to see her nude -R K Singh #micropoem #erotic #passion #wife
- The March/April 2025 Newsletter of Susana Mayer, PhD, carries my article 'Wisdom of the Body: Some Reflections'. susanamayer.com/nsfw-pieces/...
- post-dinner walk barefoot on the grass dewdrops in moon --R K Singh #Haiku
- on a cycle he sells bouquets and roses peddling dreams --R.K.Singh على دراجة هوائية_ يبيع باقات أزهار و ورود؛ أحلام متجولة •رام كريشنا سينغ Tr. by Fatema Tayeh #Haiku #senryu #translation #Arabic
- Feeling glad to share my haiku ebook for your reading and support: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Eq3...
- While I sit still how my shadow moves the little flame of candle tossing against the wind or wheedling passion nestles in the grey of mound --R K Singh #micropoem
- Here's Hindi translation of my haiku in English: crushed bedsheet the same as months ago
- crushed bedsheet the same as months ago -R K Singh #haiku
- CHANTING WITHIN Hours of silence and a lot of walks: no facile words no touchiness no paranoia no pilgrimage but chanting within through the declining day the inner acoustics on a hilltop no cloudy incantation: gasp for nirvana --R K Singh
- My poem appears on Minuto de Poesia in English and Spanish
- WAVES The waves in me rise like thousand hooded snakes strike the shore: the rocks stand undisturbed the shores don’t move the sea returns --R K Singh #Micropoems #poetry
- Wandering in a gray land thick fog --R K Singh #haiku
