Simanchal Patnaik's Delightful World Of Poems Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Simanchal Patnaik's Delightful World of Poems
which appeared in 1982
from Sarala Publication, Berhampur, Orissa
is a volume of rhymes and labored compositions
as the poet struggles to express irregularly.

The first poem, The Creator of Man opens the work,
followed by the poems such as
Delightful World of Poems, Don't Say Good-Bye To English,
Qualifications of A Bride, Welcome To Land of Peace,
Incarnation of Faithfulness, Sanjay Gandhi.

Simanchal's English is a broken English,
full of joints and disjoints, joining and separating
and trying to dovetail sentences and phrases,
trying to compose on animal sounds to strengthen his word-stock,
sometimes eulogizing money, O money, you are honey.

He is a poet of intellectual properties, laborious expressions,
the occasional verses, situational things,
knowledge and wisdom, fact and fiction,
wit and intellect rather than spontaneity and overflow
as these lie dry and dreary in him.

The other fault of his verse is this that it lengthens abnormally
and is older in structure and form,
rhyme and pattern, composition and expression
dealing with occasionality, eventuality
rather than something own, thought personally.

The poet reads newspapers and borrows the ideas from,
selects the news items, events and happenings
as for writing poems on
which we never appreciate and admire it,
but read them historically
as for to carry Indian poetry in English forward.

The Delightful World of Poems may not look delightful,
may turn into a monotonous world of rhymes,
intellectual, witty, full of ideas and facts,
looking wry and dry, dull and dreary
where emotion is almost dry.

But some of his poems mean if we try to make them out,
as for instance, Lord Shiva, Konark Sun Temple, Tragedy,
Lord Jagannath of Puri, Lord Venkateswar, A Criminal,
Vali-Vandhan, Lake Chilka, India: The Cradle of Civilizations,
Immortal Fakir Mohan Senapati, Boat Journey, Beggar, The Train,
Strange Solar Eclipse, Light The Glorifier, White Revolution,
Monsoon, Thank You.