R.K.SINGH: October 2009

About Me

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.

Monday, October 26, 2009

NIGHT

Dark street--
realizing how scary
the night is

--R.K.SINGH

WHITE HAIR

Displacing
black hair on my head
the white ones

--R.K.SINGH

SNEEZING

Sun rise
through dust-covered leaves:
sneezing

--R.K.SINGH

CHHAT HAIKU

Offering the sun
obeisance in water--
chhat worshippers

Semi nudes
bathe the setting sun
in river

Waxing crescent
searches the setting sun
worshipped in water

Like them the moon
impatient to bow to
the rising sun

--R.K.SINGH

Labels: Chhat, sun, water, waxing moon

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

TOO SMALL

Humility
with pride and arrogance
stalls expression:
self-illusions aren't
aesthetic adjustments
nor is poet
larger than himself
when he says
he's too small

--R.K.SINGH

Labels: Humility, illusions, small

Sunday, October 04, 2009

NOON

Noon sun--
yellow blouse
on her wet back

--R.K.SINGH

Full moon
yellowing leaves
autumn chill

--R.K.SINGH

Thursday, October 01, 2009

VANILLA

Vanilla ice cream
melting over the hot pie:
smiley faces

--R.K.SINGH

TEA

Rain drops
falling on lotus leaves:
tea in shade

--R.K.SINGH

Searching worms
in half-wet soil
two birds

--R.K.SINGH

Sensing winter
in the falling leaves:
breezy sunshine

--R.K.SINGH