Indian English Poetry Criticism Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Indian English poetry criticism
is but a literary survey
Done,
Books reviewed,
Scattered poems read
Meaning it not
Parodied, copied,
Imitated and borrowed from.

The first time readers will
Find them bogus,
The heart will not take to
Even the much hyped moderns
Who came from naught,
Evolved and grew up just
With the time
The first poem writers.

Here in Indian English poetry
The first book not,
Booklet writers
Are poets,
Poets not,
Poetasters, rhymers, versifiers,
Non-poets and commoners
Turned into poets.

And Indian English poetry criticism
Is a study in
Ramshackle critics
And ramshackle scholars,
The ragged men as guides
And the ragged men the students
Ragpicking to be rich and moneyed.

They collecting not books
But stray, sporadic poems
To base the Ph.D. on,
The books out of stock
And the poets nowhere
To be traced,
Whereabouts unknown,
Only the journal editors know it.