World Poetry Day Poem by PARTHA SARATHI PAUL

I learned,21st march is the World Poetry Day
only yesterday in the late evening.
My television played the messenger
and offered me this proud piece of information.
World Poetry is getting a sumo
with a number of new poems
everyday, every minute.
Horde of poetry sites, a few e-journals
digital mags, the festivals and contests
together like a glorious ensign flutters aloft
in zephyr or in violent tempestuous air
on the lofty pole of the ancient poetry chariot.
The track of world literature is slippery with
the showered lubricant of novella, flash fiction, fiction
glittering numerous potboilers...
Yet the resolute and robust wheels of the quaint dignity
roll on and roll ahead along the road towards the Seven Gates.