HUMMING BEES

DR JAY SANKAR BASU IS AN INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED AUTHOR OF FICTION AND FILM CRITICISM. HE PENS HIS POEMS IN THE NAME OF JAY BASU. IN HIS POETRY AS EVIDENT IN THIS SELECTION THERE IS FINE FUSE OF POETIC FIRE AND PHILOSOPHY. HE TRAVERSES A WISE AND SPRAWLING TERRAIN WITH A PASSION OF LOVE AND COMPASSION FOR ALL THE EXISTENTIAL AND EXPERIENTIAL SPASMS AND ANGST HIS IMAGINATION SOARS FROM THE TINNIEST TRIVIA TO THE SUBLIME AND THE ETHEREAL PLANES OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. BUT EVERYWHERE IS PALPABLE THE LOOMING SHADOW OF TIME AND MORTALITY ALONGSIDE A QUEST FOR THE FOOTPRINTS OF ETERNITY. TONALLY AND THEMATICALLY THERE ARE WIDE VARIATIONS IN HIS POETRY. BUT ACROSS BARRIERS AND BORDERS HIS EMOTION SURGES FORTH TO A PREHENSION OF PEACE AND HARMONY THAT CAN UNITE HUMANITY FROM PUT-UP SPLINTERS AND CLASHES. IN PHRASING AND DICTION THERE ARE RECURRENT MOTIFS METAPHORIC ECHOES AND SYMBOLIC UNDERTONES THAT POINT UP THE ANGUISHED VOICE OF A HUMANIST IN EMPATHY WITH THE UNIVERSE. THESE POEMS SEEM TO CAPTURE THE WHISPER OF HIS SOUL THAT STIRS HOPEFULLY THAT OF A READER WHO TAKES A DIP INTO THEM