Hazara Singh’ Aspirations Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Hazara Singh’ Aspirations,
The maiden venture of his,
Which saw the light of the day
Long back in 1980
Is a small book of poems
With a beautiful foreword by Dr.Jagdish Chander
Launches him on a career,
A practising poet on the anvil,
Making a tryst with,
Toiling for poesy’s sake.

Thus Rose Indira is the first poem
Followed by The Wail of a Bangla Girl,
The Unbroken Will, To Our Pakistani Brethren,
China and India, Kartar Singh Sarabha,
At The Tomb of Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh,
Subhas Chandra Bose: The Liberator of the East,
I Am Man, The Glory of a Woman, I Am Child,
To a Child: A Father’s Pledge, New Year Greeting & Wishes,
The Tireless Tiller of the Punjab, Raymond Griffith,
The Art of Life, The Person I Am Looking For.

An anti-romantic, his is a poetry of the head,
Knowledge and wisdom, fact and fiction,
Laboured and improvised,
Liberative and instructive,
Telling of democrats, freedom fighters and patriots,
But on a trial here,
To hone his skill
Through addition and alteration
In the years to come.