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

Oneiric Visions, The Audible Landscape,
Thought Poems, Angels of Retreat,
Shadows In Floodlights, Feeling Fossils,
Representing his poetic corpus,
Telling of his creativity.

Poetry as wit, irony and intellect,
The fact and fiction of life,
Thought-contents, bare life-experiences,
The fossils of thought and feeling,
The making and unmaking of sand dunes.

Nothing more to do with feeling and emotion,
Poetic sensibility and sentimentality not to wet,
Human intellect at work, blending fact and fiction,
Social realities clawing at.

A poet of some social realism and political upheaval,
He describes the malaise, what it ails us,
The sickness of ours own,
The cityscape is the poetic scape of his

And the poet as a townsman, not as a countryman
Describing all that in a skeptical manner
The tragic vision of life
He has experienced,
Resulting in poetry as the turns and twists of modern urban thoughts
Of human life and living.

Poetry as the fossils of emotion and feeling,
The frozen stuffs,
Intellectual density,
Bare realities,
Tragic experience.

The poet as an observer of life and the world around,
As a bare realist,
An ironist
Blending emotion and feeling, moulding poetic visions,
A poetic vision based on intellectual intensity, ironic mode and expression,
The poet as a realist,
The journey from irony and witticism to bare realism.

Poetry bearing the impact and influence of the age of reason,
Trying to be logical, reasonable and factual,
A trend and tenor showing implications,
The overcoats of words.

Urban life-ways and expression,
Intellectual thought and monotony,
With the anxiety of the age and living,
Hard life and its depiction,
Societal truths and bare realities,
Townsmanly thoughts and culture.