God, Save Me From Indian English Poets (Ii) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

God, save me, save me from Indian English poets,
Indian Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Wyatt,
Indian Donne, Herbert, Marvell,
Indian Pope, Dryden, Johnson,
Indian Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron,
Indian Tennyson, Arnold, Browning,
Indian Eliot, Pound, Yeats,
Indian Masefield, Mare.

Indian, Indian, not English, all Indian,
Nothing English,
But an Indian as a Tamil, a Kannada, a Telugu,
An Indian as a Malyali,
Speaking in English,
A Hindustani, a Haryanvi, a Delhite,
A Punjabi in English,
An Indian in dhoti and kurta.

God, save me, save me from Indian English poets,
One calling oneself a Wordsworth,
One a Keats,
While the other himself a Shelley,
The other a Byron,
While the other a Coleridge,
But where the English masters and their classics,
Where their parallels?

God, save me, save me from Indian English poets,
If one calling oneself a Milton
Another a Shakespeare,
If one a Wyatt another a Spenser,
If one a George Herbert another a Robert Herrick,
If one a John Donne another a Andrew Marvell,
If one a John Dryden another Alexander Pope,
If one a romantic another a classicist.

What poets and poetesses are they, my God,
They the village folks
Speaking in Angika, Maithili, Bhojpuri and Magadhi,
Certainly from Bihar,
But are hey good
Or blunt people,
The English poets and poetesses
Or duplicate ones,
Rustics and ruffians?

A Bihari, an Odia, a Bengali, an Assamese,
A Bodo, a Mizo, a Santhali,
A Sikkimese, a Tripurian,
A Lepcha, a Bhutia, a Nepali, a Sherpa,
All poets,
Poets of English,
Indian English poets,
A Marwari, a Rajasthani,
A Gujarati, a Marathi,
All poets, poets of India?

God, save me, save me from Indian English poets,
One calling oneself a Tennyson another an Arnold,
One Browning another Rossetti,
One Sylvia Plath another D.H.Lawrence,
One Eliot another Auden,
One Pound another Yeats,
If one a modernist another a post-modernist,
If one colonial another post-colonial
Without going to England.