What Is Poetry To Adil? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What is poetry to Adil Jussawalla?
Poetry is broken lines and sentences,
Rhythms of speech and expression,
jarring and jazz

Poetry is the Partition people's
Stitched tales and narratives
Soaked in pain and tears,
Poetry darned and tagged

The partition of India and the flux of refugees
With their caravans
Homeless and shelterless
Seeking refuge and shelter

Apart from all that the mind dwells far
Into the far realms stretching beyond
The borders and boundaries
To an Iran of bygone times

And a legacy and heritage of that lineage
Thinking of the lessons and precepts
Of Zoroaster and his Zend Avesta
To the passage leading to Bombay

Walking down the memory lines,
Marking the spots on the colour complexion,
Genetic and hereditary,
All that under the shadow of the Tower of Silence

He telling the tales of Bombay and is settlement,
His growing up and days in exile,
Return journey home
And the sea beach.