Dispossessed Nests By Jayanta Mahapatra Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dispossessed Nests by Jayanta Mahapatra
Impresses it not
With its vision and imagery
As it a book
Based on a news item
Taking to poverty deaths
And terrorism and explosion.

Dispossessed Nests is a book
Of India through the Khalistan Movement,
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy,
dealing with unrest, death and explosion
And the resultant tragedy
And the aftermath of it.

The book is like his Temple,
Not George Herbert's Temple,
But a Mahapatrian Temple
Meaning out of hunger deaths,
The old couple committing suicide,
Mocking our machinery
And the administration.

How do the nests become dispossessed,
How pain and pity speak through,
Poverty and disaster take over,
Wreaking havoc to all,
Destroying it all
What it is good?