Woolgathering By Shiv K.Kumar Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Shiv K.Kumar as a poet
Is of sexual overtones and undertones,
The body
Of flesh and blood,
Man-woman relationship,
Give and take,
Attraction and repulsion,
Love possessive.

Though intellectually sound,
His is a poetry of the intellect
Rather than emotion and feeling,
Khajuraho and Konark,
The erotic frescoes of it,
Luscious love and its relationship,
The dark relationship,
Man-woman relationship.

Shiv has never learnt to love the soul,
But the body,
The centre of sinful earth,
But hiding the dark lady,
A poet attracted to the body
Rather than the soul,
Mundane and earthly
Rather than celestial and metaphysical.

But Woolgathering as far as it is concerned,
Is it a vagary of reflection,
Roaming or vacant reflection,
An idle exercise of his dream
Or roaming upon a fruitless quest,
What is it,
Shiv K.Kumar’s woolgathering.