RAM KRISHNA SINGH

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

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Location: Govindpur, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

Ram Krishna Singh is an Indian poet and academic, whose main fields of interest consist of Indian English writing, especially poetry, and English for Specific Purposes, especially for science and technology. Born on 31 December 1950 in Varanasi, India, he has authored more than 160 research articles,170 book reviews and 63 books. His works have been anthologized in over 230 publications. A winner of several awards and honours, and translated into over 30 languages, Dr Singh's poems have been noted for haiku-inspired brevity, existential introspections, and erotic minimalism, and explored in several M.Phil. and Ph.D. theses. Till recently, Professor of English at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, he is now happily retired and pursuing his literary interests and promoting his poetry. .

Monday, June 29, 2009

HELPLESSNESS

Not a day without
begging gods to solve problems--
faith in helplessness


--R.K.SINGH

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2 Comments:

Blogger Gwil W said...

RK, your letter with many stamps arrived today, my mother collects stamps for guide dogs, so many thanks,

not a day without gods
begging us
to solve their problems

4:50 AM  
Blogger  Ram Krishna Singh said...

This makes me smile. In my haiku, the irony in the last line is slow to emerge. In yours, it is simply an ironic defiance. The helplessness of gods is something beautiful like sin!

R K

10:01 PM  

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