The Absent Authority And The Absent Poet Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

The authority is absent
And this is the time to be famous,
You just begin, begin to write.

Into the no-man's zone, tract are you
Straying into the border areas
To pass out as a no-man.

And even if you are not a poet,
Call you yourself,
A compiler as a critic.

A poetatster, a rhymer, a commoner and a non-poet,
All holding seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences
Just for to be poets and critics.

And that too the poets and critics of the nowhere to be traced
Indian English poetry
And the practising critc an unmoustached student.

The poet not a poet, but a rhymer, a poetaster,
A commoner and a non-poet,
Just keep on posting.