After Sixty Eight Years Oh My Super Moon Poem by Bharati Nayak
After Sixty Eight Years Oh My Super Moon
After Sixty Eight Years Oh My Super Moon! !
Awww- your brightest face
Smiled at me
You seemed so close
As if I would touch
You if I make a jump dance.
So many people were waiting
To have a glimpse of you
To see how would you
Walk, donning your
Dazzling gold dress
Every one was trying
To catch a scoop full
Of your light.
I came to the roof
To have a chit-chat
With you
To share our secrets of
Sixty eight years old.
Even after these sixty eight years
You are still young
With your smile
Light twinkling in your eyes.
You are the same moon
I met sixty eight years back
The cool and composed.
In between these sixty eight years
I looked at you from a distance
Sometimes I could see
You clearly, but many times
Half hidden from eyes
Sometimes I wonder
If I am gone from your skies.
Let me drink your rays
For one last time
Who knows
When another
Sixty eight years comes.
(The poem was written after the spectacular Super Moon visible on 14-11- 2016 and such big
moon was last visible 68 years back that was on 26th January 1948)
@Bharati Nayak,16-11- 16
People caught supermoon in camera, computer; but in poem by the Poetess is heart-wrenching.10
To catch a scoop! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
The moon is an oft studied subject in the world of poetry. The super moon magnifies a poet's love for the celestial. Your poem shows how close you feel to your moon, a constant companion that illuminates darkness and brings clarity. Your love and appreciation is evident. I love your twist when you write, 'sometimes I wonder / If I am gone from your skies/' This life and our role in it is a wonder...like a Super Moon! Thanks.
One can see such a super moon only once in his life. On 26th January,1948 I was only three, I might have seen it but truly even if I saw it, I had been starring at the face of my mother.
To see how would you / Walk, donning your / Dazzling gold dress / Every one was trying / To catch a scoop full / Of your light- - - - - - - - - - - - - - ] I swear these are the loveliest lines ever written about the moon! ! ! ! ! The rest of the poem continues in this gorgeous way. 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A lovely write. You nailed it. Don't we all feel the same way to witness a super moon? Moon has this strange fascination for us. I wish we had super moons more frequently. It breaks the monotony of routine n brings out the poet in us.
lovely poem. Moon is always so fascinating specially when it is a full moon invoking so much of creativity. I too remember watching that super moon.
Very interesting write...last super moon must have been very extra exciting as it was the time, a year after india's independence...great work 10++++
I love the nonchalant way in which the poem it is written; and I myself remember that day, when I saw the moon so close, as if I could almost touch it, so close, so bright, so beautiful. A lovely poem!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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12/5/2025 5:09:58 AM # 1.0.0
Lovingly captured in a poem, though I had never seen it, your fine lines took me there. Thanks Geeta