Paradise Returned & Other Poems By Kedar Nath Sharma Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Kedar Nath Sharma as a man is a very cunning fellow,
Wily, clever, witty and ironical,
He appears to be metaphysical,
Religious and holy,
But is not,
As his base one of contradiction and anti-thesis,
A conglomerate, a gourmet,
A Jack of all trades, but a master of none,
The case of his.

Had Kedar been into the footsteps of Pope and Dryden,
It would have been good for Indian poesy's sake
As wit and humour suits him best
Rather than romanticism
As deviates he from
And often changes the track of his poetry,
often transgressing into the territories
Of poetry and science,
Emotion and logic, the relation between the two.

Paradise Returned is not a work of a believer,
But a disbeliever,
Searching for
Where paradise in in essence,
The gates of Heaven and its Inn,
Had it been,
The space shuttles would not have been fired into,
It is a mini Divine Comedy,
A comic Paradise Regained.

Actually, he is exploring the possibilities
Of a remix, a hybrid
Of science and poetry,
A cocktail of logic and emotion,
Feeling and reason,
He is going to prepare
For a sip.