What Is Poetry? (Ii) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is poetry?
It is a difficult question
To answer.
How to say it?
Poetry is poetry.

The poetry of life,
The poetry of heart,
Soul,
The poetry of the world
And humanity.

What is poetry?
Poetry is art and idea,
Thought and image,
Reflection,
Poetry poetry.

Poetry is feeling,
Emotion,
The emotion of the heart,
The feeling of it,
Poetry poetry.

Poetry is a thing sensitive
And sensuous
And sentimental,
Poetry lyrical,
Musical.

Without being sensitive,
One cannot be a poet,
Without being
Sensuous and sentimental,
Emotional and full of feeling.

To be a poet is to be a lover
Of flowers, birds and beasts,
Man and life
And Nature,
Of humanity.

To be a poet is to be a
A romantic
Dreamy and colourful,
A realist
Bare and naked.

A metaphysician
Or a transcendentalist
Or a mythist
Or a symbolist
Or an individualist.