O.P.Bhatnagar As A Poet- Ii Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry as oneiric visions,
Thought poems,
The angels retreating
With wit and irony,
Feeling fossils.

Bhatnagar as a poet
Is ironical and witty,
Sardonic and satiric,
A poet of social poetry
Drawing from realities.

Shadows in floodlights,
How to recognize them,
Flames of darkness cooling
And the lights falling
Lighting the misty surface,
But still some standing in the dark.

The faces coloured and painted
Cannot be so easily
As they the modern men
Of the modern age
City-dwelling
And of the urban space.

Somewhere succeeds he,
But fails and falters too
With his monotonous wit and intellect,
As all the times thoughts cannot be
Turned into poems which does he so often.

His is a story of a modern man,
Eaten by intellect,
Exhausted and exasperated
And bewildered,
At a loss as for what to do, what not
And where to go?

Wealth and material assets
Cannot give to him
What he seems to extract from,
What he seeks to derive from
Leading him nowhere
From where the retreat is not possible.