These poignant micro-poetry verses by Ram Krishna, published on DifferentTruths.com, elegantly capture fleeting human emotions, shifting seasons, and modern existential anxieties.
on the beach
abstracted figures:
furtive fingers
shared joys
making of memories
dolphin leap
standing in shade
of shadow in courtyard
eats fig dried in sin
hand-sized cloud
rain right behind it –
await storm
in the clouds
reading his future:
late autumn
fun days end:
no more foot traffic
empty street
change in sun’s colour
vanishing stars’ quiet nudge
hang in the balance
no apples –
satan breeds bombs in
god’s kingdom
dreaming of home
come to strangers seeking
their own shelter
no birds sing
in the moonless sky:
mourning trees
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Prof Ram Krishna Singh, also known as RK Singh, is a widely published, anthologised and translated poet with over 25 poetry collections to his credit. His recent poetry collections include Poems and Micropoems (Southern Arizona Press, USA, 2023), Knocking Vistas and Other Poems (Authors Press), Leaves of Silence: Poems and Micropoems (Authors Press), and Drifty Silence and She: Selected Poems & Micropoems (Edizioni Universum, Capri Leone, Italy, 2025).
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