R.K.SINGH

Collects all of my published poetry books. Also provides an uptodate view of my poetry, especially haiku and tanka.

About Me

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Location: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Born, broughtup and educated in Varanasi, I am a university professor, teaching English language skills to students of earth and mineral sciences. I have authored over 150 articles,165 book reviews and 34 books, including Twelve collections of poems, among them, two jointly with U S Bahri, TWO POETS (1994) and COVER TO COVER (2002), and two others, EVERY STONE DROP PEBBLE (1999) jointly with Catherine Mire and Patricia Prime, and PACEM IN TERRIS (2003, a trilogy collection, containing my haiku collection PEDDLING DREAM). MY SILENCE AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS:1974-1994 (1996), ABOVE THE EARTH'S GREEN (1997), and THE RIVER RETURNS (2006) are my other three important poetry books. NEW INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY: AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE: R.K.SINGH (ed: I.K.Sharma) is the latest publication on my poetry. It contains 22 critical articles, six interviews and over a dozen review/comments by about 30 scholars.(Details from bookenclave@yahoo.com). I have received several awards and honours, including honorary Litt.D. from the World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taiwan, 1984, Michael Madhusudan Award, Calcutta, 1994 and Peace Museum Award from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 1999.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

SNAKES: A HAIKU SEQUENCE

SNAKES
Sunny morning:
a snake slides through the fence
looking for a prey


Full of silt
the Ganga overflows:
snakes under the waves


Raises its hood
a cobra in water:
algae criss-cross


Searching reason
in the labyrinthine pattern:
snakes in courtyard


Avoids searching
mushroom in the crowded green--
snake on the fence


Searches thorn apples
to propitiate lingam:
snake in sanctum


A snake's tail
coils round a sweet
in the box


Smells a snake
in the wet grass--
her smile


Rises with tickles
between the thighs
the dream-serpent


A yellow snake
slithers on the grass--
dewy trail of love


Climbing high through
rough pathway and stony cold
a green snake


A snake's dead skin
near the fence:
she stands unmoving


--R.K.SINGH

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