An Indian English Ph.D. Thesis On Modern Poetry Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

An Indian English poetry Ph.D. thesis
On modern poets
Appears to be a loose subject,
Inflexional, derivational,
A study in borrowings,
As most of the poets and poetesses
Evolving writers,
They had not been,
But have become
As there is a dearth of voices.

Generally, the ragged men as Ph.D. scholars
Or students
Take up the trite and hackneyed stuffs,
Presenting the same poems
Of the anthologies
As the self-published books
Of the self-published minor authors
Are unavailable.

Those who are in tough of
Or are close to writers
Can only get the books
Of the poets and poetesses,
Some are writing,
With some books on the anvil,
One or two-book authors
Of India.

They are not classical,
Nor are their books classics,
The classics of world literature,
But the substandard, below the mark attempts
Of the masters of Indian poesy,
Trying to start,
Trying to perfect,
The gods of small things.