http://londonpoetryreview.com Britain's leading publication dedicated to traditional poetry. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://londonpoetryreview.com/2009/11/missionaries/ http://londonpoetryreview.com/2009/11/missionaries/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:12 +0000 E.M. Schorb http://londonpoetryreview.com/?p=301

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Wending our way, we wonder where

the Guys and the Gals went who seem to be gone.

Are we to wander inside of this weather

until we are lost like the others were?

 

Why were they lost, we wonder moreover,

the brave Moravian men with their women,

the ones in canoes and the cannibals too?

Some seemed to drown in the ever-new river,

 

some went along for the ride because lonely,

and some never got to the gates made of horn;

but some sought to come back to where they were born,

the ones who cried only, if only, if only.

 

 

 

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