Games of Convenience

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.5in">Before the ant-eaten
roots

.5in">yield to storm and the
roof cracks

.5in">I must find a new shelter

.5in">to escape the full
collapse:

.5in"> 

.5in">the façade of specious
house

.5in">and dead wood midst dust
and green

.5in">have popped up myths of
ages

.5in">academics recycle

.5in"> 

.5in">holding gods in the hand

.5in">in cozy illusions

.5in">perpetuate newer

games of convenience


.5in">--R.K. Singh

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From: 
New and Selected Poems Tanka and Haiku (ISBN 978-81-7273-635-4), 2012




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ABOUT THE POET ~
I have been practicing poetry for over three decades now and have published seventeen collections in English, including three bilingual collections. Till recently Professor at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, my poems have been widely published, anthologised and translated into over 25 languages., My blogs: https://profrksingh.wordpress.com, http://rksinghpoet.blogspot.in


Last updated January 14, 2013