They know it well
As how to highlight their own poetry,
Not the poetry of others
And even if they,
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I do not say about all,
But many of the buff-masters
I see them as varsity teachers
In India,
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Thomas Hardy, the mayor of Casterbridge is none
But you,
Who married again at the age of seventy plus,
A girl younger than
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Mahapatra’s Burden of Waves And Fruit
Rains in Orissa, Another Day in the Rain, Events, Winds of Spring,
Summer 1983, Summer Afternoons, A Rain Poem, The Voice,
An Evening By The River, Trapped, A Time,
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Jayanta's The False Start appeared from a poet's enterprise
Called Clearing House, Bombay in 1980
And it's a book of poems to be reckoned with,
Starting from the poem,
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Breaking my heart, my heart,
Breaking my heart,
where had, where had been you for so long,
O, say you,
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It is just merely the mockery of fate which see you
That I am saying sir to you
Otherwise you would have me
And I would have been your boss
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In a cottage, bamboo-pillared and open, like a square
With half the portion for the cattle,
I mean the cows and the buffaloes
And half the portion for me
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Pingla, Pingla,
What, what have you done so that the king has turned into a renouncer
Leaving the reign of royalty,
The palace and the assets,
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When I see them and their poetic stance,
I think within,
What a fate have I got,
Just for being self-published,
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