(one impressive poem by a Japanese poet)
Halley's comet appeared in 1910
(And I was born the following year)
It's period being seventy-six years and seven days,
It is due to re appear in 1986-
So I read, and my heart sinks
It is unlikely that I shall ever see the star-
And probably the case is the
same with human encounters
An understanding mind one meets as seldom
And an undistracted love one wins as rarely-
I know that my true friend will appear after my death,
And my sweet heart died before I was born.
I failed to copy the poet's name. It is in the syllabus of fatima college, i think in some paper with an international name.Bala, you know the name of this poet?
fell inlove with language as a student; the affair continued all through the customary situations such as college, marriage, career and motherhood. Just found one more means to continue the long term romance. Thematically, there's been loads of magic and tons of logic inmy encounter with life.Sometimes magic happens when my logic expects it the least and sometimes there's an after thought that the magic was logic after all. Shall pursue the answer to this riddle all my life,
fell inlove with language as a student; the affair continued all through the customary situations such as college, marriage, career and motherhood. Just found one more means to continue the long term romance. Thematically, there's been loads of magic and tons of logic inmy encounter with life.Sometimes magic happens when my logic expects it the least and sometimes there's an after thought that the magic was logic after all. Shall pursue the answer to this riddle all my life,
The poet who wrote "Chance Encounters" is indeed Katsumi Tanaka, who hopefully become better known & appreciated as time goes by...
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