60th Marriage Anniversary Lunch
written by: R. K. Singh
He played a duet recorded on tape
years ago when she was young and virgin
full of dreams long before marriage with me
I had heard her crooning one or twice but
I never knew she’s such a good singer
her talent died, for no one cared even
she forgot, now blames me for all her woes
and all that she couldn’t become, or lost in
cares of home and motherhood following
‘marital rape’ time and again as price paid
for life to be alive without singing
Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing for over four decades now. He has published 25 poetry collections, including 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, 2020), A Lone Sparrow (e-book, English/Arabic, 2021), Against the Waves: Selected Poems (2021), Silencio: Blanca desconfianza/ Silence: White distrust (English/Spanish, 2021), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2022), and Poems and Micropoems (2023). He retired in 2015 as Professor at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad.
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