Poetry, What Is Poetry? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Poetry, what is poetry,
Poetry classical, musical,
The words of life, songs of life,
Poetry poetry,
The images of life, pictures of life.

Poetry, what is poetry,
Poetry the songs of life
Hummed and sung all way long
While walking over the paths of life,
Poetry poetry,
The words of life,
The images and pictures of it,
You just go pencilling or snapping the photos.

Poetry is musical thoughts,
The rhythm of living,
A heart in song and joy,
Feeling the delight of life,
Caught by the flower and the breeze,
He swaying and swinging.

Poetry as romanticism
And the poet as a romantic,
A singer of heart and soul,
A writer of the common folks;
Poetry as classical
And the poet a classicist,
A moralist
Seeking refuge in didacticism.

Poetry is poetry,
A description of the scholar gipsy
Going the way,
Crossing the dry river
And the small-small children
Giving wild blooms to him
Which the snobs did not.

Poetry as the love of the shepherd girl
Singing and rejoicing
On the ways of life,
Yea, the rustic girl
So simple and lovely,
Sympathetic and affectionate.