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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Breaking my heart, my heart,
Breaking my heart,
where had, where had been you for so long,
O, say you,
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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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Though the people call him liberal and light,
But Khushwant Singh was not at all so,
A very serious man indeed,
Sober and elegant,
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Rome Basu
As a poet is a globe-trotter,
An insider as well as an outsider
As he lived and served in the U.N.O.
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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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I shall not remain
But the flowers will;
My poems too will not remain
But the flowers will.
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You are my first love, first love,
Believe me,
Just believe,
Said he.
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Kamrupa Kamakhya Devi,
A mere glance of the Tantrica Devi
Redeems and absolves of the past sins,
Kamrupa Kamakhya Devi,
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Those who have just begun to write
Are also calling themselves poets and poetesses
And this embarrasses us most,
Baffles us most.
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