Saleem Peeradina As A Poet Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Saleem Peradina as a poet
Is a family man,
A family poet
Writing about family,
Mother, father, brothers and sisters
And daughters too.

Not
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov,
Gorky's The Mother,
But man and his family,
Conventions old and new
Modernizing it all.

Just like David Copperfield's
A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist,
He prods and plods his way,
A society man,
A family man
Saleem Peeradina.

With Bombay in his mind-set,
He is for Bombay, of Bombay, by Bombay,
A Bombayer,
A Bombayman
Settled in the States
Writing about Bandra and journeys beyond.