Black Poetry, White Poetry, Is Poetry So? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Black poetry, white poetry,
Is poetry so?
Black is black,
But white,
Think you so
And white is not white,
But black,
Written in black and white.

What it makes black poetry
Black
Is the prejudice of
Belonging to black consciousness,
Secluded from the whites
As for being different
From the complexion point of view.

With the protagonist black,
Black poetry tumbles down to,
Telling of feeling and experience
Undergone
As a black,
Not as a white
As for complexion.

But in the works of the whites
There is nothing as that
Like black consciousness,
As they go in their own
Rather than the blacks
Who tell differently
As for discrimination
And inferiority complex.

The Little Black Boy by William Blake
Tells of sympathetically
A black mother teaching
The little boy,
In The Chimney Sweepers, Charles Lamb
Tells of the hard duty of the cleaners
And Walt Whitman is without doubt
Superb in his humanism.

The blacks as the natives
Or from Africa,
The Dark Continent,
The whites from Great Britain
As the settlers,
History, politics and culture
Of the land,
The story of colonization
And its narratives strange is it.