Nissim EZEKIEL
As I have read, understood him
Falling sort of
Calling him
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Is he a poet
Or a broadcaster
Or a media baron
Or a newsman
...
A beginner with so many slender titles and booklets
Mesmerizing it all
With love, beauty, romance and lyricism,
Pritish is a poet of Calcutta,
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Is it Jayanta Mahapatra's
An Elegy Written In A country Churchyard?
The ghost of Thomas Gray
...
Is about an Indian woman
Living a nameless life,
Call her Ghumtawalli, Purdahwalli,
The artiste behind the theatre curtain,
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Is he the Ted Hughes
Of Indian English poetry?
Or a Parsi man talking
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Is he the Ezra Pound
Of Indian English poetry
Dealing with imagery?
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Is there anything like Indian English poetry
If there is nothing
As Indian English
And if it is, say you,
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Dalit, Dalit, this Dalitization of literature
Like I not
As for unnecessary politicization,
Say you,
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