Sunny morning: <br />a snake slides through the fence <br />looking for a prey <br /> <br />Full of silt <br />the Ganga overflows: <br />snakes under the waves <br /> <br />Raises its hood <br />a cobra in water: <br />algae criss-cross <br /> <br />Searching reason <br />in the labyrinthine pattern: <br />snakes in courtyard <br /> <br />Avoids searching <br />mushroom in the crowded green- <br />snake on the fence <br /> <br />Searches thorn apples <br />to propitiate lingam: <br />snake in sanctum <br /> <br />A snake's tail <br />coils round a sweet <br />in the box <br /> <br />Smells a snake <br />in the wet grass- <br />her smile <br /> <br />Rises with tickles <br />between the thighs <br />the dream-serpent <br /> <br />A yellow snake <br />slithers on the grass- <br />dewy trail of love <br /> <br />Climbing high through <br />rough pathway and stony cold <br />a green snake <br /> <br />A snake's dead skin <br />near the fence: <br />she stands unmoving<br /><br />R.K. Singh<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snakes-a-haiku-sequence/
