Romen Basu As A Poet

Rome Basu As a poet is a globe-trotter, An insider as well as an outsider As he lived and served in the U.N.O. As an official of it And wrote poems Besides being a novelist And a short story writer. Gliding on Silent Waters, The Unquiet Waves, The Surrendered Self, Wings at a Distance, Committed Footprints, The poetry-volumes of His own tenor and type To make a way into The realms of it. A poet of observation and scrutiny, Natural calm and quietness With flutter and fermentation, Glow and radiation, Photos snapped At daybreak and twilight, He keeps saying the things. He loses when he commits with his footprints, But where he surrenders And is emotional is no doubt fine, Though the matter somwhere gets thin But instead of, is meditative And of a contemplative order And he can never be sidetracked. The things he narrates and the references referred May refer to other climes and conditions Other than those of India As his is not a spring of India, May be it of New York or elsewhere Lived and visited, Reminisced and recollected For a narration and portrayal.