Volume 5 | Issue 1 | April - May
2011 |
Moon’s tears
Arunansu Banerjee
Take your aim, pull the trigger slow
bombard the moon
It only adds a dimple; the moon glows
brightly as ever, with just one extra crater
Half the size of a regular swimming pool, smaller
than the bruises made by eccentric comets
For centuries, she smiles like an autistic child,
gifts diamond rings borrowed from the sun
Satellites examine her scarred face, the rupes
and the maria, for traces of frozen tears.
Arunansu Banerjee - Arunansu Banerjee, from Calcutta, West Bengal, India, has been writing poetry only a few years but the art and craft were rooted in him long before his work appeared on web forums such as Soul to Soul, Here & Now, Kritya and The Peregrine Muse. Arunsansu is a teacher by profession, with a degree in physics and a specialty in softwares. His primary love is listening to Indian Classical music. Favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Li Po, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda and Matsuo Basho.
