Modern Indian English Poetry: A Minefield Of Nondescript No-Men Poets & No-Men Critics Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The modern poets of Indian English poetry started
To be famous from the very beginning
When they started to bring out their first collections of poems
And in course of time, they just tried to evolve
And substantiate their positions.

The slick volumes of poems used to be ludicrous, humorous
Striking to call them the poetic presentations
But had to
As there was a dearth of Indian English poets.

And there was a time
When the classics-read old professors used to refuse to accept,
Frown upon Nissim, Lal, Kamala, Kolatkar, Patel, Nandy
And his friends and associates,
Calling them derivative, imitative and substandard,
Not at all readable.

Poetry has to be poetry-like
And they went up not to theeir expectation,
Appeared not to be sound
Rather broken thoughts, images, rhythms and statements
And the poets struggled with idiom and nuances.

In the beginning, I too felt disgusted with,
Never like to read the Indian English poets
Rather than Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Yeats and Tennyson,
But adjusted with and compromised somehow,
Though the heart went not in their favour.

The modern poets and popetesses got a new lease of life,
I mean a lifeline,
The parachutes and safety boats to bail them in case of danger
When the college texts started prescribing their poems
And the older university men searching them, their whereabouts,
The missing men.

When found they that Ph.D. was compulsory for career advancemen,
The bundlemen started turnign to Indian Englsih literature
As for cheaper stuffs
Rather than British, American reseacrh works,
Write and re-write otherwise the thesis may be cancelled.