Poetry Of Himalayan Wisdom By Simanchal Patnaik Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry of Himalayan Wisdom by Simanchal Patnaik is in reality
A volume of some Himalayan height
As per his type and tenor of writing,
The magnum opus of the poet,
A major or minor poet,
Canonized or not.

Primarily a rhymer, a traditionalist,
He appears to be a poetaster
But is voluminous
And deals with eventual and occasional writing,
News items, current topics, events and features
Making us doubt,
What is it new in him?

A self-published venture from Berhampur, Orissa,
The book appeared in 1999,
Taking rhymes, doggerels and verse compositions
To the highest pedestal,
Unto the Himalayan heights
As for a reckoning,
Basing upon occasional verses
Dealing with the happenings, events and occasions.

What it pains us is this that he borrows from the news items
Of the newspapers,
Turning them into laborious verses,
Rhyming to perfect them
But perfection can never be,
Though technical virtuosity is therein
And he a better craftsman,
Inculcating in knowledge ad wisdom
Lacing the poems with thoughts and ideas.

O God! Why Did You Give Me birth, Money & Poetry,
Stone-God Is Truth, Lives are Full of Adjustments,
Travelogue In Poem, The Ways of Dictators,
Limerick, Curse of Poverty, Ode To The Great Indian Rope Trick,
Man Versus Nature, Return of Children From School,
Love Through Laughter, In Defence of Poetry,
Are We Fit To Rule Our Country? ,
Fracture of Bone (Dedicated To Pope John Paul II) ,
Who's The Mother of Mankind? , etc. the poems
From Poetry of Himalayan Wisdom.



Poetry to Simanchal is knowledge and wisdom,
Wit and intellect,
Fact and fiction,
Mind and matter,
An exercise intellectual,
A gathering of ideas and thoughts,
Opinions and view-points,
Trying to cull the facts
To stitch the pigments of imagination.

Though mechanical and technical,
The ideas germinating so,
He labours to colour them
With a forced sentimentality
Rather than spontaneous and natural
Which he lacks in so miserably,
A poet applying and enjoining
Wit with intellect.