Setu 🌉 सेतु: Pandemic Poems: Ram Krishna Singh

Setu 🌉 सेतु: Pandemic Poems: Ram Krishna Singh: 

 

Pandemic Poems: Ram Krishna Singh

Ram Krishna Singh

TEST

Lonely December

aren’t I immune?

antibody test

before boarding

uncertainty continues

no silence helps

virus more mighty

than gods in politics

don’t know if I can meet

children before the year-end

to celebrate birthday

or continue journey

in flurry living

each day a grace

***

NEW GODS

Meditation --

future uncertainties

beyond crisis

new strains, new virus

villains of the  new order

peeking from windows

create new mantras

for life to continue

envision new gods 

***

https://www.setumag.com/2021/04/pandemic-poems-ram-krishna-singh.html

MAHAKAAL

 

So many times I chanted the prayer

from childhood to now that I forget

what I pray for or want, repeating 

mantras while walking at dusk or seeing

images on the lingam that stir

the flame Shiva harnesses deep within

 

my numbed feet stop before growling dogs

trained to ignore strangers whose lips don't utter

their names or who aren't free in leash like them

 I fail to filter the chasing darkness

 from roadside temple to Sarna Enclave

 

--R K Singh

 Published in CREATIVE FLIGHT Journal, April & October 2020

https://www.creativeflight.in/mahakaal