Pensive Memories By T.V.Reddy Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Pensive Memories by T.V.Reddy
Brought out in 2005
Is a collection of pensive memory and reflection
Where the poet reminisces, remembers
With lamentation
The times sped by,
Fled and slipped
With a view to catching the spirit
Of the gone by moments.

A poet of gloomy despair and dejection,
Grief and broken lyre,
Fleeting bubbles and rhythms,
He seeks to catch despair
And pensive reflection
With his pen and paper.

The New Year, Can I Sing,
The Bridal Bosom, Bride's Wishes,
An Orphan Lad, The Crow,
Migrating Birds, This Dull Evening,
A Violent Winter, A Stretch of Shadow,
Sailing Saree, Ageing Smiles,
A Lone Bird,
The poems.

Reddy's grief is not a romantic grief,
But the Victorian grief,
Falling short of in being
Betwixt faith and doubt,
Tennysonian and Arnoldian indeed
Rather than
What we take him for,
But not so successful
As thematically he is poor,
but imagistically strong
And on a sound footing of his.

Though we call him a rural poet,
One of such a background,
But there is nothing much
As that to corroborate our statement
That he lived in villages,
Wrote about them,
The problems and scarcity of it.