My Experience As A Writer In India Since 1986 Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

You will startle to know it that not even a literary friend
In India
Supported me
In my creativity,
None of the poets,
None of the critics,
None of the little journals.

I also believed God and barring Him, nobody else,
As none liked to see me as a poet,
Not even a minor poet,
None of the profesors even,
Nor anyone of the press and the media
And I went on suffering, struggling and sacrificing,
Writing from a small town.

I wrote on Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra and Adil Jussawalla,
I worked on D.H.Lawrence,
His fiction and non-fictional prose,
On his novels, stories, sketches, poems, playlets,
Letters, opinions, reviews and prose works,
I interviewed Indian English poets,
I presented my book on Indian English poetry.


I published and sent to my friends free of cost,
They got benefitted,
But they forgot me in course of time,
Started calling themselves poets,
Leaving me behind.