HERE AND NOW :

A SELECTION OF HAIKU

Ram Krishna Singh

awake
alone on the house top
a sparrow

a fish tail
dried up in river mud:
burning smell

sun rise
without newspapers:
post-chhat rest

hovers to the same

marigold I pluck for god
a green butterfly

turn into river

non-existing roads:
hudhud waves

counting sand
between the toes
my daughter at sea

her name
written on the sand:
a wave breaks

empty coffee cups

deride the syllables
I spin to make haiku

my hairs in air
reveal the baldness:
wank without wad

hidden between the sheets

my smothered senses
salted honey

slowly rising
from the clouds edges
autumn sun

a sleeping snake
curled between the eggs
layers of leaves

my hairs in air
reveal the baldness:
wank without wad

hidden between the sheets

my smothered senses
salted honey

slowly rising
from the clouds edges
autumn sun

a sleeping snake
curled between the eggs
layers of leaves

lying listless
on withered creeper
a golden bird

a yellow snake sneaks

through the blooming balsams bed
a lone frog puffs up

a drop embedded
in the half-opened bud
winter morning

drifting
in the nights silence
noons shadow

the sky
without a shadow
on the earth

wheezing his way

to Shivas hilly abode
a young miner

potholes:
spots of sunshine
wobble

dreaming her nude

the serpent rises:
first orgasm

cloning miracles
with the nights discharge
in condoms

late night sleep

no lotus in the dream
Chinese garden

fallen mangoes
after the midnight storm
morning drizzles

stars twinkling
the beetles path
from manure

stench of burning leaves

mounts with fog in the evening
asthmatic breathing

swollen fog
ready to make way
for the sun

wrapped in fog
the flying plane
seen by sound

standing behind
the window bars observes
shapes in fog

feels the shadow

with wet fingers on the beach:
sound through the fog

when sleepless poetry

fails to negotiate night
I wait for white dreams

among the white hairs

a solitary black one
keeps her hope alive

night washes the sky

the sun brings morning freshness
to my window

foam-maned waves
rise in the minds hush:
sinking dome

the wax drips

down the long hard candle
a soft hum

her face
reflecting light
a mirror

with failed words

seek immortality
write haiku

a vague smile
in moonless cave:
tempting silence

a load of wood
on her frail back
autumn evening

waiting for the train

alone on the platform
swatting mosquitoes

musky perfume
open unsleeping eyes
drowsy sweetness

with changing weather

they look for sun and shade both:
chameleon tune

Its utter helplessness

true, but to survive
one must be tamed

sparrows couple
on a withered creeper
peep of day

etched on her skin

a ghost rises from the flames:
fighting one more day

taking a nap
on oranges in his shop
a fruit vendor

two women argue

over price and weight of fish:
the hapless huckster

dragons play whirlwind

among the clouds meet & rain
unite earth & sky

the red light is on:

they all have secrets to hide
no use peeping in

a yellow spider
crouching in a corner
invisible webs

moving shadows
on the door curtain:
sinking sun

virtual flirting
untamed straggly bushes
dystopia

non-stop rain
confining me to facebook
depression

virtual flirting
untamed straggly bushes
dystopia

between the lantern

and the smart phone
a pizza-eating girl

etched on her skin

a ghost rises from the flames:
fighting one more day

from the ruins

rises a mute flame:
heavens song

her veil
hides the face
love too

in silence
one with the divine will
growing within

a quiet turning in
to partake of her silence:
roaring ocean

evening sky:
a pale moon behind
listless trees

rises drowsily
after a sleepless night
a sick sun

Copyright: Ram Krishna Singh, India