If You Ask A Comedian, What Is Poetry? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry is comics,
Poetry is comicality,
He will say, say
If you ask a comedian,
Life is a comedy
And poetry a study in comedies.

Poetry is light verses,
Rhymes rhyming,
Ordinary and meaningful
And meaningless too,
Light, light verses,
He will,
Poetry is light verses.

Poetry is wit and humour,
Humour it
The way of life and the world,
Live happily, think happily,
A happy, happy,
Happy-go-lucky man.

Poetry is jokes
The joke man saying it,
Saying,
Poetry is jokes,
In the joke of life,
The jokes of the world.

And the joker dancing,
Dancing,
Taking a cigar on the lips,
Burning,
Burning and smoking
Writing My Experiments With Cigar-smoking.

The tobacco man coming
Rubbing tobacco on the palm,
Rubbing and rubbing
And talking of musical taals,
Eighty fillips and ninety taals
In softening it
To be taken into the mouth.

Poetry is fun, pun, humour,
Poetry is wit and irony,
Poetry is satire,
Poetry is vyangyokti, vakrokti,
The ironic mode,
The oblique approach,
Poetry as taunts, satires and comments.

But comment you not with scathing attacks
With malice and vengeance,
Enmity ans jealousy,
Bitterness and criticism,
Directing the energies at,
Channelizing them,
Your furies to make it detestable.