As a collection of poems,
Includes in,
A Prisoner is More Free, The Walls of Prisonhouse Remain,
Can Facts be Destroyed by Ideals? ,
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As a collection of poems,
So many poems to count here,
The Crowded Metaphor, Nailing by the Wall,
Round and Round, Of Court and Cancer Ward,
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We are but Hamlets,
Don Quixotes,
Ulysses.
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What shadows does he see in the floodlights,
How much of light and darkness
Is he able to see?
As a poet his base is one of nothingness and the existential question
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As a book of poems
Is inclusive of To my Nearea, Dying a Century,
Memories, Boundaries, Courage of Being Free,
I Have Promises to Keep, Crossing The Bar,
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They tell it that he was on wheelchair
Who needed it care and nurse,
But how difficult is it to do service
Those who serve know it best.
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I see her struggling all daylong,
A poor Dalit woman,
Working in her home,
Working in the master's house,
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The left-overs, scraps of food
To be thrown to the garbage
Or to be drained out or dumped elsewhere,
This too is not in her destiny
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You are a girl,
You should do this, should do that,
Should do the household works,
Should take care of your small brother making him entertain,
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Bhatnagar has shown poetry can be otherwise
Dislodging romanticism,
Colourful pictures and images
And his shreds of thought and idea
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