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About This Poem
Missing Couple
Beginning unknown :
Still the canoe floated
The calluses paddled.
Sunny days and moonless nights
I have watched them floating
On the river meandering.
The canoe rose and fell
On the wavelets ten thousand times
During the springs.
Black the hairs were ;
Many winters passed ;
Now snow white being exposed.
Narrow escapes
From the maelstroms unexpected,
And forward floated.
A long voyage ; two together ;
Funeral feast smells ;
They drink to the lees.
A long missing : one doubts
They rest under the holy *banyan tree ;
Empty canoe tied to the tree.
*Banyan tree is a holy tree for Hindus.
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