Simanchal Patnaik's Sonnets & Other Poems Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Sonnets & Other Poems by Simanchal Patnaik,
Brought out in 1989,
Is a personal venture of the writer
Trying to compose and contribute in English.

Simanchal as a poet is a conventionalist
Who keeps following trend and tradition
As an old-timer,
The other thing of his verse being
Laborious in expression.

That natural flow and spontaneity is
Missing in him
And he does the patch-work,
Sometimes failing in the desired fusion
And falling miserably.

Though informative, dull and dry,
His is a mechanical expression,
A technical feat,
An artificial letting
Derived from newspaper stuffs.

News items generally turn into verses
And he draws from,
Delves and dwells upon
To sustain his forte,
The crux of his poesy.

Odissi Dance, Yours Faithfully, Stone-Breaker,
Value of beautiful Women, Bangles And Kunkom,
Yin To The Yang, Love Letter, Kite-Flying,
God And Man, Lotuses, etc.
The poems
Laced with fact and fiction,
Wit and intellect.