What Is Poetry, I Asked Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is poetry? , I asked a romantic,
Said he,
Poetry is romanticism,
Coloured fancy and imagination,
What is poetry? , I asked a realist,
Said he,
Poetry is realism,
Realistic sketches, down to earth,
What is poetry? , I asked,
Said he,
Poetry is imagery,
A dabbling in imagism and the poet an imagist,
What is poetry, I asked,
Said he,
Poetry is symbolism,
Myth-making, myth and mysticism,
What is poetry? , I asked,
Poetry is humour, wit and irony,
Said he,
In the art of satire,
In the art of irony,
In the art of humour
And the poet as humorist,
As a satirist,
An ironist,
Seeking,
Searching poetry
In the lines of humour, irony and satire.

What is poetry? , asked I,
Said he,
Poetry is in the grammar of poesy,
Poetry is rhetoric,
What is poetry? , asked I,
Said he,
Poetry is sentimental statements
And the impractical men
Write the poems,
What is poetry? , said he,
Poetry is broken statements,
What is poetry? , asked I,
Said he,
Poetry is modernism,
In being modern, modernist
And post-modern,
What is poetry? , asked I,
Said he,
Poetry is eco-centric,
Ecology and environment-friendly,
What I poetry? , asked I
And in response to it,
Said he,
Poetry is poetry,
What you take,
What I take to?