Poetasters As Indian English Poetry Journal Editors Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

It has become a trend,
A trend and tradition
To send the bluff-master subscriber student
Of the bluff-master research guide
To read a paper on
The small journal editor’s poetry
Whose poetry means it not.

The paper the editor writes it
And gives it to the subscriber-reader
As for to read the seminar paper
In the other part of the nation
So none can doubt
About the originality of the paper,
But it’s a got-up case.

The failed poets and poetesses want to make a way
Through editing journals,
Encouraging the teachers to write papers
On editor’s poetry
And as thus they keep exchanging
Mutual praise and admiration,
Living by fraud, thinking by fraud,
Tackling the things cleverly.

The poetasters, rhymers, commoners and non-poets
All poets, poets and poetesses,
How can it be,
Does morality not prick them
In praising themselves,
Praise, but over praise you not,
Which but I do not
How to cope with them?