O.P.Bhatnagar Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

O.P.Bhatnagar as a poet is but a realist,
Mainly a societal one,
Telling about hardcore realities and this tragic living
Of tragic times,
Nailing the truth,
However bitter it may be.

Thought Poems,1976, Feeling Fossils,1977,
Angels of Retreat,1979, Oneiric Visions,1980,
Shadows In Floodlights,1984, The Audible Landscape,1993,
Cooling Flames of Darkness,2001,
Themselves tell of his poetry,
The art and trend of his writing.

A teacher of English who used to at Amravati
Before settling in New Delhi,
He edited the books of criticism and poetry
And side by side wrote poetry,
Inducting in fact and fiction,
Tragedy and the tragedy of living
In tragic times.

Apart from satire, wit and irony,
Existentialism and nothingness taught him
To take life otherwise
And he took too in that stride,
A poet social and societal,
But bewildered and at a loss
To conclude about.

Today he is no more,
But he of course excelled in writing capsule poems,
The brief poems full with wit and witticism,
Satiric bits
And realistic tidbits of modern life and living.