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Abstract: Little magazines and their little-little editors Little men’s little magazines Poetasters, rhymers, commoners and non-poets as poets and poetesses Poets and poetesses as bluff-masters and mistresses Self-praise is no praise, as goes the adage Poetry not in mutual admiration The small editor a poet and the fellow reviewers and subscribers admiring, even university readers and the meritless poetry the topic discussion and the teacher applying in the reader-responses theory
Those who had not to be poets and poetesses are,All those journal-editors,The little-little men of little-little things,Of trivia and academia.A small poet or a poetess who fails as a poetMakes a breakthrough after editing a journalAnd that very small poet turns into a poet of India fame overnight,Can it be,Is poetry false praise and evaluation?My…
Dark daughter,
I turn to you,Turn to you,Dark daughterFor comfort and solace,For solace and comfortWhenever sad and sombre,Sad and sombre,Broken and frustrated in life!
What sort of poetry is it,
Contemporary Indian poetryWhose base is inThe exchange of mutual admiration?I calling you great,You calling me greatAnd we are all the great men of India,But greatness is not in the ego of the personality,It is in being polite and mannered,It is in simplicity,It is in goodness and nobility,It is in innocence and ignorance,Who knows what unassesed…
Up above the Tower of Silence
Marking from above,Perched aroundTelling of life and human things,Human conditions and situations.At a very and lonely secluded placeLies it the Tower, the structure,The Tower of Silence,Overlooking man and his coloniesThat he has settled, inhabited,The areas around the Tower.The kites circling over, circling and circling,The vultures alighting aroundTo perch on sidewaysTo feed and fest,To cleanse the…
A satirist,
A tragedianOr a pessimistSardonicAnd sarcastic?