Moon

TRANSITION

COVID-19: ISOLATED BUT POETIC

TEN POEMS

1

sudden downpour--
worrying about the virus
in sleep


2

in the air
I expected romance--
corona:
avoid her kiss
and breathing too


3

The deity may hear
or not hear the loud praise
and silent sighs
the temple dust is not free
from virus in the air

devotees carry
without God's wish suffer
sins not committed:
quarantined in hospital
alone for fourteen days


4

a hammer pounding
my still body in dark tube:
MRI


5

with spring comes
burial of romance:
COVID-19


6

on the bed
physical distance--
end of sex


7

stone deities
deliberate Corona--
isolation


8

The sun and cool breeze
betray no virus:

the house arrest sickens
the fear kills the spring

this Naw Ruz alters
the meaning of life

buried in years that gibe
political follies

fanatic ambitions
and culture of suicide

they call evolution
progress, peace, unity

ruining harmony
in nature's home fuel

no re-creation
but perpetual death


9

confused longing
longer day in lockdown
weird restlessness


10

punitive
corona virus--
lepreuse
some say it's invasion
the barbarian without

quarantined
i clear my throat
behind the face mask
breathe in unknown viruses
suffer new repressions

now lockdown
cut off life:
castration
Hugo said monasticism
resisting death


--R.K.SINGH

COVID-19

Punitive
corona virus--
lépreuse
some say it's invasion
the barbarian without

quarantined
I clear my throat
behind the face mask
breathe in unknown viruses
suffer new repressions

now lockdown
cut off life:
castration
Hugo said monasticism
resisting death

--R K Singh

COVID-19

Corona virus.

Punitivo,

leproso 

algunos dicen

es una invasión. 

Cuarentena

limpieza del pecho

tapabocas

respirando viruses desconocidos

sufriendo nuevas represionnes

 encierro castración,

monasticismo

resistiendo la muerte.

--Ram Krishna Singh

Tr. Joseph Berolo

http://www.aveviajera.org/85aosdeshojandocalendarios/id1023.html 




https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158548840569434&set=a.48380279433&type=3&theater 


The poem translated into Arabic and French by Assil Chebbi, Tunisia. Published on Facebook, 26 March 2020


قصيدة كوفيد ــ 19
الشاعر الهندي: رام كريشنا سينغ
ترجمة أصيل الشابي 26 ــ 03 ــ 2020
منتقم
فيروس كورونا هذا
الأبرص
يقول البعض إنّه غاز
بربريّ لم يُذعن
للحجر الصحي
أحكّ حلقي
تحت كمّامة الوجه
وأتنفّس فيروسات مجهولة
وأغرق في الذّعر
الآن هي لحظة الإقفال
إقفال الحياة
الطامة الكبرى
لكنّ هوغو قال يوما
في الخلوة.. يُمكن مقاومة الموت

Beautiful Like Sin by Ram Krishna Singh

Beautiful Like Sin by Ram Krishna Singh





their nectar

radiates heat

body's smell



flames rise

their coloured faces--

full moon



inciting

her silence--

cell phone rings



trying to reach

through her twists and curves

the lips in the crotch



drowsiness

after a short pilled sleep--

morning sex



rubbing gulal

between her private parts--

Holi stroke



hot on the trail with youth

she scales up the heights of dream

and leaves me stunned with chill



lying in her nightie

she wipes the stray raindrops

settled on her cheeks



transparent

in her red saree

she tiptoes



her first kiss

beautiful like sin:

clitoral clinch



she plays with her body

hide and seek in naked dress--

sizzling summer




--R.K.Singh

RETIREMENT

post-retirement
my watch not worn for days:
horologist

--R K Singh

HAIKU

spiders' network

between two photo frames:

action in silence

filling emptiness

waves dance over each other--

the sky meets the sea

wild sugarcane

no animals savour--

ageing monsoon

moon energy

fills up the inner space--

call to wake up

darkness of the heart

bouts of quiet clashes:

midnight oracle

the black dog

eats into my being:

solitude

a touch of fire

in inner privacies:

the will to live

evening walk:

a peep into my own

lanes and bylanes

she looks ahead

after years of heart-bleed:

harvest moon

--R K Singh

https://www.boloji.com/poem/25876/haiku