Saturday, January 31, 2015
The Forbidden Ritual Comments
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A widowed woman is committed to death.
The ritual says she must climb her husband's funeral pyre
find her beloved in the blue smoking, burning ghee
her husband's head rests on her lap, ah -this is Suttee;
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8/2/2025 10:50:36 AM # 1.0.0
Liked the poem very much, especially its quick turn end, The British I believe abolished the practice. Bill Grace