In most of his poems, the poet seems a radical critic of the current human’s extreme individualistic society. He tries to depict fearlessly the unbalanced pony world, through the Marxist maxims and purposes the self-realization.
Rupsingh Bhandari
Poetry does not bracket into any definition, and it also does not have the universal understanding but, fundamentally, it is the vibration of humans’ souls with the cosmic connectivity and has been practicing for goodness. It is a subtle way of expressing the unsaid truth through human experiences. Poetry has been written from ancient times, it has crossed the myriads of the historic epoch and has been used for different purposes even though it does not have any specific aim. As Aristotle argues in his book Poetics, “poetry, in general, seems to have sprung from imitation and harmony.” This makes it easy to comprehend that the human’s inner world imitates nature and searches to be balanced with comic music.
In the same way in this beautiful handy book ‘The Selfish City’ by Bhoj Kumar Dhamala, the poet surmounts and fathoms in the selfish world with his own experiences and telescopes the better world through his verses. As I had got an opportunity earlier to paint this beautiful anthology’s cover art. Now, as the critic for me, it is not easy to evaluate it surgically. But, I am daring to do it as his good friend.
The Selfish City debut book by the poet is recently published from Amber Publication, New Delhi, India, with fifty-four radiant dense poems. In most of his poems, the poet seems a radical critic of the current human’s extreme individualistic society. Poet tries to depict fearlessly the unbalanced pony world, through the Marxist maxims and purposes the self-realization; the discovery of righteousness. Through this unique circumference, he takes up his poetic flight in search of his original world. As he accepts reality and still reaches a solution in his poem “Infinite”:
Public backbiting you know, I know they know…
Merriment is infinite so be compassionate.
These lines undress the façade reality of the mundane and suggest for be kind because the world of happiness is limitless. Perhaps, these connote the selfish world’s short introduction and the simple therapy of liberation, in human world, there are many choices to be free from the externally entangled world, but he asks to be compassionate. His blended solution, in fact, is necessary to this hollow world. I have seen his anger in his poems, but his solution is metaphysical. Therefore, in his poems, readers encounter both Marx and Buddha.
In the same way, Poet is a straightforward man, he loves to write the unrest of modern society and the evils of the political and socio-psychological backdrop. Especially, in South Asian nations, political deviations and unrest is common, we all are not far from this chagrin. The liquidation of their ideology and the corrupted mentality people have insomnia. Politics coiled up here as the toxic in every person’s mind. Therefore, His lexicon unfurls indirectly political frustration, fragility, and fissures in the inner complexity of society and at the same time philosophically marinates towards positivity through his words. Therefore, many of his poems conceive from this dirty hypocritical quandary. In short, he churns the contemporary world through his churner of conscience and angles his though. He displays this necked truth in his poem “A Degree Holder”:
In the country whose pride is overwhelmed
By nepotism, and favoritism, he finds valueless…
His dream, like a moth in the neon light.
This is a stark reality of our nation, where politics pollutes everything. And poet debunks this reality without any hesitations. He delves into the whirlpool of evils of society and searches the solace through his creations. Therefore, in his poems, the underlined revel is hiding becoming, metaphors, symbols, and similes.
On the other hand, the poet extremely doubts the disturbed inner consciousness of the human world. Many of his poems psychologically erupt and search the moral solution, therefore by reviewing his poems it would not be reasonless, poet as the moral teacher guiding the society toward the virtuous, as P.B. Shelly believes that the poet is a moral teacher. He encapsulates his poetic wisdom in his poem
“Panacea”:
Everything would be a symphony, a grain
Of creation, peace of mind with an avid
Will power within or without a panacea.
Poet just does not adorns the things, but internally, tries to unfold the mysterious creation and answer the intricacy. He compares this mundane as the mere reflection of harmonized cosmic melody, where he urges humanity to peace of mind.
Moreover, his poetic garland is full of distinct subject matter, he is able to write about multilayered dilemmas of human endeavors. His poetic tank seems button up against all evils of the world. From ecology to the essence of the human world. From unbalanced society to disturbed modern love. Indeed, He seems all-rounder, who is able to thrash out the crux of life and word. He has full of potentiality he can still brew up many daring poems for society to beautify the human consciousness. Poetry does not cover against everything, but unquestionably it makes to think about everyone. Humans have many faculties inside to be quenched. It demands all the beautiful fragrances of creation, literature, music and arts has own significance and importance in human life. Sometimes we cannot diagnose hunger inside us and we run after many things and remain unfulfilled. I believe that the poet is attempting to unknot this hidden scrambles through different lenses in his anthology.
But, besides these poetic attributes, while going through his poem, readers can encounter the perplexity of distinct subject matter. His words play sometimes seem uncomfortable to comprehend the meaning of poems. Readers need to contemplate more in his short and succinct poems. Poet can deploy gliding words to express this deep wisdom, but he seems to love to choose those words.
Meticulously, the collection is an embarkation of the poet himself. He tries to demonstrate his inner core and convince himself as the motivator of self. He expresses the entire human’s ballooned hogwash and redirects the reader and himself to the beautiful land. Reading these poems sometimes, somewhere you would like to meet this poet as personally. I promise, he is far better and sweeter than his poems.
Now, in conclusion, without confounding and confusing you, by vivifying his poetic heart, I don’t like to butter more about him. I would like to ask, please, read Bhoj Kumar Dhamala’s poems and you can find his many different incarnations in his short anthology, which is available on Amazon.
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Rupsingh Bhandari is a poet, short story writer, social activist, critic and translator from the Karnali province of Nepal. He writes in English, Nepali and Hindi. Rupsingh has published several poems, articles, short stories, as well as translated poems and stories. He is the author of the Conscience’s Quantum poetry book. He served as editor of the International Anthology of Pandemic Poetry 2020. His creations are worldwide anthologized and published. He is founder of Words Highway International (Writers Association). Rupsingh does painting and music and loves to travel.
