On May 17, 2005, I met Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India to present to him some of my poetry books. Dr Kalam is a well known scientist, and poet too. After spending some 45 minutes with him and talking about poetry and haiku, I had a sense of history in making.
Days later, I composed the following haiku, recalling the moments of loneliness in the huge Rashtrapati Bhavan:
Busy but lonely
the visonary scientist
President Kalam
On May 17, 2005, I met Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India to present to him some of my poetry books. Dr Kalam is a well known scientist, and poet too. After spending some 45 minutes with him and talking about poetry and haiku, I had a sense of history in making.
Days later, I composed the following haiku, recalling the moments of loneliness in the huge Rashtrapati Bhavan:
Busy but lonely
the visonary scientist
President Kalam
–R.K.Singh
small piece of light
spread thin
even before my day begins
bubbling aquarium
my loneliness
trails each bubble
another take on lonliness. your piece is very
nicely done.
happy hour
fifteen empty barstools
separate the two
one purple
iris
a field of
day lilies
each day
more buds open
I grow old
Nicely done Alice. Thanks for sharing.
And RK Singh,
Abdul Kalam was a rocket engineer, not a scientist, and calling someone who was responsible for India going nuclear as a visionary is deplorable.
grain of sand
wave after wave ‘gainst the shore
too numerous to count
–
long & short of it all–
circle of life thing