Poetry, What Is Poetry? The Thematic Base Of It Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is poetry?
Poetry is emotion and feeling,
Sentiment and sensitivity
Interspersed.with.

What is poetry?
Poetry is thought and idea,
Image and reflection.

The myths of poetry,
How to bust it,
Make and unmake?

Poetry
A play with words
And images
Swapping places.

Poetry
Mundane,
Poetry celestial
Full of cosmic consciousness.

Poetry
Earthly and mundane,
Worldly,
Poetry transcendental
Crossing the bar.

Poetry of Nature
Full of flora and fauna
Exotic and wild
In their splendour.

Poetry
Demonstrating
The wrath and anger
Of Nature
Untamable, swift and proud.

Poetry
The wild Nature
In its furies
And fuming

The storm,
The cyclone, the hurricane,
The tornado,
The thunderstorm, cloudburst
Overtaking.

Poetry poetry
Showing Nature in
Its furies and tranquility.

Poetry poetry
Describing the blue skies,
Sunny days lurking ahead,
Flowers blooming.

Poetry poetry,
Grammar grammar,
The grammar of poetry
Know I not.

Poetry and grammar
Two different things,
Grammar grammar,
Poetry poetry.

Even know I not scansion and prosody
Though have heard of,
As no rhetorician, prosodist am I.

Poetry poetry,
The grammar know I not,
Just the alphabet have I learnt,
The alphabet of poesy.

In poetry
Talk you not
Of grammar
As will be misleading.

The things of heart should not be
By the binding of grammar
Which fastens it the liberty of language.

But while criticizing poetry,
Construct you, deconstruct you as well
But destroy you not the meaning.

What is poetry?
Poetry is words,
Spoken words,
Written words.

Poetry metaphysical,
Poetry lyrical,
Poetry romantic,
Poetry neo-classical,
The divisions and parts of it.

Poetry Victorian,
Poetry Elizabethan,
Poetry Georgian
Denoting ages and tendencies.

Poetry as
Lyric, songwriting,
Poetry as fancy and imagination,
Poetry as images and pictures.

Poetry as myths,
Symbols,
Imagery,
Motifs.

Poetry subjective,
Poetry objective,
Poetry melodious,
Poetry dull, drab, dry and dreary.

Poetry occasional,
Circumstantial,
Eventual,
Sketchy.

Poetry satiric, humorous
Full of taunt and jibe,
Joke and laughter,
Personal malice and vengeance.

Poetry ironical
Dealing with fun, pun and humour,
Doublespeak.

Poetry as oblique approach
And you seeing through
The convex lens.

Poetry bombastic, verbose,
Weighty and laden
And ornamental
And artificial.

Poetry pastoral
Dealing with shepherd life and love,
The rustic maiden.

Poetry urban and of city spaces
Dotted with industrial refuse and pollutants
And mechanical living.

People struggling for survival and existence,
Open space and air
Looking out from the balconies of their flats.

Traffic jams, speed breakers and bumpers
With railway and zebra crossings
Adding to trouble and woes.

Poetry modern,
Modernist,
Post-modern
And contemporary,
I fail to differentiate.

You tell me,
Who modern,
Who modernist,
Who post-modn
And who contemporary?

Poetry Shakespearean,
Poetry Miltonic,
Poetry Spenserian,
Poetry Donneian.

Poetry Wordsworthian,
Poetry Keatsian,
Poetry Coleridgean,
Shelleyian.

Poetry Arnoldian,
Tennysonian,
Of age and times.

Poetry Yeatsian,
Poundian,
Eliotesque,
Audenesque.

Poetry as hollow men description,
Waste land imagery,
Barren-barren.

Poetry absurd,
Dealing with the drama of the absurd,
How absurd is it the play of life!

Poetry as the sculpting of the unknown citizen,
The torso and the bust of his
At the town square.

Poetry pure,
Marginalize them not,
John Masefield, Walter de la Mare.

Poetry written during the World Wars
War poetry,
In the inter-War period and during the post-War period.

The horror and terror of war
Dealt they
Digging trenches for themselves,
Braving heavy shelling and bombardment.

War poetry about uncertainty of living,
Life at stake,
Bombardment and shelling,
Casualty and loss of lives.

War poetry of the soldiers
Thinking about life gloomily
Away from their homes,
Loss of life and casualty,
Fire, fire, fire.

War poetry of the war-time,
Not peace-time,
For to make the truce, pact and treaty.

Poetry Arnoldian
Dealing with the scholar gypsy,
Scholasticism, classical temperament,
Culture aspects.

Before commenting upon others
Comment on you first,
Be a commentator of yourself.

Before criticizing others
Criticize you yourself first
To know it all.

Be a critic of yourself
Before attempting the criticism
Of others.

Be a commentator of yourself
Before commenting
On others.

Before finding faults with others
Find faults with you
Yourself.

Poetry Bertrand Russellian dealing
With knowledge and wisdom,
The impact of science on society.

Poetry artistic
Of the art school
Dealing with circles, dots, sketches,
Exhibitions,
Art galleries.

Poetry philosophical
Dealing with the philosophy of life
And the world.

Poetry of the city space
Urban
And broken.

Poetry as broken lines,
Broken stanzas
Meaningless,
Searching meaning.

Poetry,
Poetry of the hollow man,
The missing person,
The nameless woman.

Poetry biographical,
Autobiographical,
Poetry as an album of portraits,
Photos.

Poetry of pure heart,
How to write it
As have lost my innocence,
Childish ignorance?

Poetry eco-centric,
Green poetry
Want I to write
Without wasting paper.

Poetry as my love of dark daughters,
Why do I them,
My daughters so dear and so loving?

None has come to feel it
The love of dark daughters,
Daughters, why are they so dear
To their parents?

Dark is dark,
Let it be,
Why to try to resolve
The mystery folding around?

Poetry as kangaroos,
Antelopes, porcupines,
Blue birds, golden orioles,
Depleting vultures.

Poetry as pansies,
Calendulas, asters,
Marigolds,
Gentians.

Poetry as the penguins
Of the Arctic,
Penguins flapping wings
And coming closer to camps.

Poetry poetry,
The horizon of it vast,
The spectrum and range of it.