Lit eZine Vol 10 | p-6 | POETRY | New Slavery – Manic Sylph Writes… Poetry & Thoughts by Mona Soorma

SHORT POEM

NEW SLAVERY
Short Poem by R.K. Singh

Crowded muddy urban street with cars, auto rickshaws, motorcycles, and pedestrians near colorful buildings with dream figures walking among them — *AI-generated image*

From the 15th floor window I watch
dreams racing on the muddied road
the ugly beauty of tomorrow

the romance of the miserable
the egotist   the cunning   the heart-broken 
the idealist   the maniacs   the enlightened cheats

the crafty and the unlucky too
who conceal cavities in their shoes
in the gallery of the great tech game

fabricating newer lies and hypocrisies
of saffron politics   secular faith  and people’s power
spilling blood to heal a history of wrongs

create new cultural fantasy
new racism   new slavery
homegrown narcissistic lords and ladies

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Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian poet who writes in English, is the author of several books of poetry including Sense and Silence: Collected Poems (2010), Growing Within/Desăvârşire lăuntrică (English/Romanian, 2017), Tainted With Prayers/Contaminado con oraciones (English/Spanish, 2019), Covid-19 And Surge of Silence/Kovid-19 Hem Sessízlík Tolkȋnȋ (English/Tatar, 2021), 白濁: SILENCE: A WHITE DISTRUST (English/Japanese, 2021), Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024), and Leaves of Silence (2025). A recipient of Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award, Kyoto, 1999 and Winner of Naji Naaman’s Literary Prize for 2015, R.K.Singh is a retired Professor of English at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad.