A collection of 80 micropoems previously published on twitter.com , micropoetry.com and elsewhere.

1. HERE SHE GOES: A COLLECTION OF MICROPOEMS
--RAM KRISHNA SINGH

2. HERE SHE GOES: A COLLECTION OF MICROPOEMS
HERE SHE GOES: A COLLECTION OF MICROPOEMS
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FRESHNESS
The withered leaves
blown in autumn
come again with the tired rains
the season confers
through the soft grey clouds
the growing freshness on naked trees

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CROSSING
When the sea is still
& mind is wingless
the shore & moon one:
we walk hand in hand
crossing horizons
hugging surge of time

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SPACE
How many defy
the space between
sleep & leap
I hear sounds
of cracked mirrors
& torn veils

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4.
AGAIN
short nights & long days
sleep loss rustles a friction
echoing in bed
the cycle of cravings
over & over again

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DEATH OF A SONG
In the stillness of morning
hangs fog like smoke veils
her waiting in street
I watch my window
wavering shadow
announcing death of a song

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MIND
love without clothes
without bone has
a joy within:
soft, smooth & full
like the mind
creative & free

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ECHO
Nobody hears
the vacuum
mourning peace:
echo haunts my soul
like leafless trees
raising grief
to sick air

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EMACIATION
I am an image
they secretly deride
in the classroom
mental emaciation
bridges the gap
that feeds a teacher
to teach another

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WIND
I lost my sleep
over a thought I could not
make my own
the sun’s antidote changed
the voice of the wind

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I C A N’T SLEEP
It is for their love
of God they play loud music
or chant His name on
loudspeakers but it kills my
peace the whole night I can’t sleep

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FRESH CATCH
the sea smells
from far off leaps to the sky
I drive through
the maze of returning folks
with fresh catch on their head

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HARDSHIPS OF THE SKY
I don’t want to mount
the hardships of the sky
if the earth’s labor pain
is false or the action
stillborn with or without
scalpel the doctor
humiliates process

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SKY
awaiting the wave
that’ll wash away empty hours
and endless longing
in this dead silence at sea
I pull down chunks of sky

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ISLAND
The shroud of fragrance
in a closed room
& a ghost
at the threshold
gnats & kites
abide my triumph
it all looks
an island

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FALLING MOON
Draped in white the night
embraces ripples
down the terrace the course
defies my gaze
the moon falls into pieces
down my son’s cheeks

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TEABREAK
With mordant comments
he tries to geld a standpat
in a feminists’ meet
and turns a sook
at tea break

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SHIELD
The menopausal man
doesn’t know whether
it is love or
pressure of the groin

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he preaches
heteropromiscuity
searching for frolic
as another shield
18.
NEIGHBOR

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with scheming mind
& crafty heart
a professional loser
perfumes the room
with flattering lips
& strays a preacher
into revolution

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IS THIS ALL?
With prayers’ cocktail
live animal existence
& boast, is this all?
in self-same cocoon
fungus of illusions grow
toadstools of damned tract
20.

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KALI
Crudity
of the stone conceals
grace of nudity
the image of Kali
reveals to her devotee
21.

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DIVINITY
The sun
on a mountain
grave illumines the path
to divinity unrealized
in soul
22.

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WAVES
Watching the waves
with him she makes an angle
in contemplation:
green weed and white foam break
on the beach with falling mood
23.

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HAIKU PRESENT
I wish I could live
nature’s rhythm free from
bondage of clock time
rituals of work and sleep
expanding haiku present

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CRACKS
The cracks on the parapet
have widened for the peepal
to stay green for once
rains too want us to drench
our heads and feel one
with cool wind
in a dark corner

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CRAZY
crazy these people
don’t know how to g o
down with the swirl &
up with the whirl but
play in the raging water

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BETRAYAL
There’s so much to see
from birds to butterflies
& mildewed roses
can I pick one for
the sun betrayed by clouds
the city didn’t expect?

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TAKE OFF
resting his chin
on the back of his palms
he stands at
the dusted railing to watch
the planes roar & take off

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PAST
There’s little to sustain the past
looking beautiful each day
as we bury it or review
over a drink with strangers
who don’t know & would forget soon

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HEAVEN
Heaven is
the frisson of union
with fishwife
behind the boulders
on sea beach

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WHISPERS
Seeking shelter
under the golden wings
of Angel Michael
a prayer away now
whispers the moon in cloud

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SHADOW
Last evening
I saw a flower bloom
today it’s faded
but my fear
lurking like a shadow
ever present
I can’t erase:
emptying the mind
easier said than done

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GEOMETRY
with black & white marks
& nest of ants on its skin
the tree grows taller
shining through the geometry
of sun moon & halogen

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SECRET
When I asked
to open her secret
she showed me thumb
I thought
she would return
love for love

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RELEASE
Melting chrysanthemum
silent chromosomes
restless energy
stones in wood
where is the release?

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SILENCE
I clasp your hands
& feel the blood
running savagely
through your arteries
in tulip silence

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SHE
She is the tree
green & wide
abundantly dressed
overflowing
spreading her sleeves
blesses all

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in her cool shade
solitude teems
with breezy songs
37.
CRUDITIES
the nude reads his skin peeling eyes
& curses the crumbled canvas
the wrinkling hands couldn’t set:
she suffers naked burial
for simple art in crudities

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BONDAGE
I wish I could live
nature’s rhythm free from
bondage of clock-time
rituals of work and sleep
expanding haiku present

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AWAITING
Little candles fail
to illumine the deity
or golden dome
in the valley darkness reigns
and god too awaits light

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DIRECTION
night’s prisoned friends
keep me awake with planes
flying over the ashram
every now and then I watch
the direction matters

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SCARED
slung-jawed awake
two grinning skeletons sit

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bolt upright in bed
hear the shrieks next door but
too scared to call the police
42.
LOUT

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My bones have holes for eyes
I search my teeth in the muck
leeches have sucked my blood:
where’s the lout who ate my flesh?

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PRICK
Unpruned roses
unmown grasses
make me aware
of the emptiness
the dusk in her room sounds
she searches out
her shadow in
the rising moon
I feel season’s prick

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TENSION
The blank space between words
is the burnt skin of time
I couldn’t paint:
they stole the colors
& brush of the eyes

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45.
WIND
I lost my sleep
over a thought I could not
make my own:
the sun’s antidote changed
the voice of the wind

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BROODING
Time is running out
cracks in walls develop fast
but I stay static
shrouded in cobweb
as if in dusk denying death
brooding slipped chances

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POETS
Watching the moon
in the western horizon
two haiku poets
scratch each other’s back and mock
the rest as neophytes

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OVERLOAD
Goes awry
the electrical circuit
in the brain cells
in my drugged sleep
I utter expletives
unmindful of
the victims:
I can’t help my sensory
overload

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49.
NUDITY
The wind lifts
her curved nudity hidden
in water curtain:
I touch the strings that whisper
love in each falling drop

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TOO FAR
Each death has a passage
to surprise the dead
awareness matters
no solace the cow’s tail
in the river’s midst
heaven far, too far

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DUSTY COLONIES
Dusty colonies
recount in grammar of cough
new tales of hazards
near open cast pits
they move with graves on shoulders
mark my white shirt black

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SE ASON’S E YE
The naked tree
seems to sway
in hope of
green waves
spring promises:
here am I
prostituting smile
in mirror
despite change
in season’s eye

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53.
SHADOW
raising the glass
to invite the lone moon:
silent shadow
suffer the falling leaves
yellowed with autumn

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LEMON IN COURTYARD
She props the stooping lemons
with stake but avoids
bending close to me:
I die to draw the blossom
in my twining arms
but she likes the other scent

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ECHO
Nobody hears
the vacuum
mourning peace:
echo haunts my soul
like leafless trees
raising grief
to sick air

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SNARES
weaving lies & hopes
he exposes his skill
with riddles only
fools himself & prides
in snares of deceits
buries his own peace

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STAINS
Layers of dust thicken
on the mirror water makes
the smuts prominent:
I wipe & wipe & yet
the stains stay like sin

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58.
SOUNDS
How many defy
the space between
sleep & the leap
I hear sounds
of cracked mirrors
& torn veils

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59.
FED UP
C an’t I g rab a little
warmth, fresh air & love
simple, sound & innocent?
I ’m fed up playing
life across the net
shuttling nightmare in cold

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JOY
moonlight lingers
on mango boughs like the fruit
sweet yellow sun
in my courtyard
cool shade travels with thin cloud
I see love dance

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LIGHT
Memory fades
like her body
in dim light
I bury my head
in open hands
to escape noises

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WAKING
standing at the edge
I long to float with waves &
wave with instant wind
on the dream water’s breast
I read tomorrow’s wonder:
the secret of waking

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VISION
teary eyes
with sparks and lightning
dried vision
caged existence
seeks deliverance
muttering old prayers

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BODY’S SONG
Awake in dream
he looks for the candle–
lov e’s invitation
lighting up in the dark
and sings the body’s song

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65.
BEWARE
Professors beware
intellectual success
lies in inventing

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lies to conceal common truths
and sound holier-than-thou

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66.
SHADOWS
the mirror swallowed
my footprints on the shore
I couldn’t blame the waves
the geese kept flying over the head
the shadows kept moving afar

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ISLAND
at the river
she folds her arms and legs
resting her head
upon her knees and sits
as an island

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ROTTEN RAT
Man is an animal
with a peculiar smell
says Bertolt Brecht:
he smells a rotten rat
as he waves his khaddar arms
with fake smile

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NIGHT’S SILENCE
Unmoved in the wind
the rose still stands erect
in the night’s silence
i imagine my teens
the street is lonely
& love-ache ever fresh
with stolen fragrance

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70.
MEDITATION
Unable to see
beyond the nose he says
he meditates
and sees visions of Buddha
weeping for us

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PRAYER
On the prayer mat
the hands raised in vajrasan
couldn’t contact God—
the prayer was too long and
the winter night still longer

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RIVER
Ripples of darkness
tear the river
flowing within
I hear shrieks
of shadow amid
savage hails

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SEX IN PUBLIC
sex in public
background folk music
in Weston Park
love masquerades
under a foreign tree
I await driver
to take me home

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WATERY WEATHER
The watery weather
continues to shatter
the mortal shell
one by one
washes the paints
that hide the face

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HIGHWAYMAN
in the forest of her body
& steeps of her breasts
is the highwayman
I saw escaping the moon
over stream last night

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WATERY LIPSTICK
a happier image
with salubrious top
turns rapturous
as she tamps her love
with watery lipstick

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WATCHING
The painted paper-god & christ on the cross
stand on the dawn-colored wall of my bedroom
watching sex, prayer & restlessness

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MILITANT
Caught between flattery of politics
& democracy of opposition
he turns a militant & kills
both left & right

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79.
HERE SHE GOES
Here she goes in the long light
and swiftly a shadow moves with her

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80.
SMOKE
Who sees the smoke
of the thumb-sized flame
the body burns
the ashes of silence
float on the holy breast
tears pollute

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NEST
Taken out of me
the bone of my bones
I grow into her and be
each night discard the covers
seeking each other
return to the ancient nest
Copyright: Ram Krishna Singh, India

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