Shadows In The Sun By R.Rabindranath Menon Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Shadows In The Sun brought out
By R.Rabindranth Menon
From Writers Workshop, Calcutta
In 1976
Is a book
Typical of its author
Dabbling in verse
From time to time.

A collection of some 32 poems,
It starts with Clockwork Orange
To be followed by
The Second Churning, May Dance,
Crystal-Glass, Optimist,
Sentinels, Anatomy of a Revolution,
Push-Button Warfare, Poet.

The Search, A Clear Message,
Satymeva Jayate, Ambition,
Hop, Step And Jump, Leopard,
Bhasmasura, Pareekshith’s Story,
Money, Money, Money,
In The Examination Hall,
Scientist, Equilibrium, the poems.

A poet of ground realities,
His ambition
Is not to scale heights
Or climb the peaks of,
But to be with the crowd
In therir haste and hurry,
Doing their odds.

The poet is meaningful,
Inclusive of thoughts and ideas,
The Indian scenery and panorma,
The seasons changing,
Climates varying,
He describes the summer spectacle
And the monsoon showers
Lessening the heat of the day.

To Menon, the poet is
But a dreamer, a visionary,
An image-maker, a flight-taker,
A re-collector
Of emotion and feeling,
A re-joiner of
The past, the present and the future,
Marking the wave-lengths, radio waves.

Into the depths of time and space,
He marks the moments
Trapped
Glossing over mind and matter,
With the memory of the remote past
To be relived
And the vision of future
Anxious for a purview.