To The Solitary Voyager Poem by Sarojkanta Dash

Navigate
Like a solitary voyager
Collect pearls
And share with
Your second self.

Nothing bigger
Than a canoe
You need,
For no second mortal
You'll allow beside you.
Pull on the drapery
Of silence
It can wrap you
For your satisfaction
But won't forbid
Me
From feasting my eyes
On my share-
The marble marvel of life
And fire!

Do you know-
You are sheer poetry to me
A threadbare mystery.
For a poet youthfully sang -
Ardheka kalpana tume ardheka manabi.
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5 May 2014