R.R.Menon As A Poet Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

R.R.Menon took he to poetry
Just as he as a science and engineering student
Rather than of literature,
A native of Kerala
He worked in erstwhile Bihar’s
Ranchi
As one from the allied services
An IAS officer
Of multifarious assignments,
Postings and placements.

Poetry came to him as words
Designed and denoted
To communicate the thud in statement,
A poet he was verbose,
Failing short of bombastic,
But weighty and heavy upon
Meaning,
Casting around the wordy structure,
A poet of the city and the urban living,
Not the country
He told the tales of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mysore.

The humbug and humdrum of daily life
In its full monotony,
The dull and drab routine,
He tried to peep out of it,
Avoiding the circles,
But bereft feeling and emotion
In its all sensitivity,
He tried to hear of silence,
The echoes of it
To some extent,
A poet modern and urban
Writing stanzaic verse.

A poet of the modern age
And the modern times,
He experimented with modern verse and writing,
Took to poetry as a riddle,
A puzzle of words,
Telling of vanity and prowess,
City living ad culture,
The desertion of flora and fauna,
The eco-system around,
The hunter and the hunted