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

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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 

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Bio-note: Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing  for about four decades. A retired   Professor of English  at IIT-ISM in Dhanbad, he has published 46 books, including poetry collections God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within/Desăvârşire lăuntrică  (English/Romanian, 2017), There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019), Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza: Silence: White distrust (Spanish/English, 2021), and A Lone Sparrow (English/Arabic, 2021).  More details on https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

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Setu, April 2021