Modern Indian English Poetry Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Modern Indian English poetry of the modern age people,
New faces and voices
Beginning to write, struggling to make a way,
Parodying, emulating, copying, trying to perfect
After the English classics and authors.

There were of course writing in English
But the times had not been in their favour,
To promote them,
Writing the trivial verses
And had we encouraged, they would have made a way
But we supported them not.

Now talk we of the poets evolving,
Coming of age,
Making a way into the realms of poesy,
The minor practitioners of verse,
Staking a claim,
I mean the minor voices of slender anthologies.

The first poem writers, the first book writers,
Of the first collections on the anvil,
All of those poets and poetesses,
With the statements recorded,
He has written quite a few, but are unpublished,
His first collection of poems is on the anvil.

The commoners, non-poets, rhymers and poetasters
Of the post1947 period
Tried to evolve they in the negation of Aurobindo,
The urban hollow men,
More specially the mediocre fellows
Tried their luck at verse-writing.

The U.G.C. made the Ph.D. compulsory for career advancement,
The National Academy of Letters, Delhi searched for probables
In English for the awards,
Poems by the Indians were prescribed,
Publishers started running after,
Hence, this entry and feedback.

A poetry-matter of the absent authority,
The absent critic, the absent authority,
Who to recognize, who to do the critique,
The no-man writers of no-man literature,
Of no-man critics,
All no-men making a tryst with destiny.

The bogus and blunt research students of the supervisors
Turning into critics and specialists
Of the no-man literature,
No-man criticism,
Calling themselves great critics
After editing journals, books and arranging seminars.