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. .

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

DECEMBER 31, 2009

No cakes or cookies
to celebrate my birthday
this New Year's eve
lunar eclipse and blue moon
cheer the cup in foggy chill


--R.K.SINGH

3 Comments:

Blogger Bill said...

Happy birthday, anyway, RK. And happy new year.

8:31 AM  
Blogger Alice said...

When you realize
there's nothing but you
and that moon
watching you
from her high high eyes
than you see the real things of life

1:22 PM  
Blogger  Ram Krishna Singh said...

Thanks, Alice for your poetic response to my poem.
R K

8:00 PM  

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