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. .

Sunday, February 12, 2012

FIREFLIES

fingers feel
decaying fireflies
in night lights


--R.K.Singh

1 Comments:

Blogger Gwil W said...

Hi R K,
Funny, I was just now reading about moths flying indoors to the light and then suddenly realizing they are lost and then clinging to the walls, even beyond death, hanging there until they decayed. In W G Sebald's Young Austerlitz it was.
Regards,
Gwilym

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