Re: [meteorite-list] METEORITE CONTEST #3, Bensour-Suess

[Joseph Murakami]

 Here's another entry...poetry was never my strong suite! Certainly not Suessian!  Maybe a haiku on steroids??  Did it need to on Bensour??       DAG 262/400   My moon glowed soft yellow      in the quiet of that night, I yearn to touch her face      to at least know my embrace But in the airless moonscape,      mares dark, highlands light, My ten-year old self did squint to see       no clouds or dust,       a stone-cold world       through this telescopic sight.   A flash of light!..., maybe  two or even three,    (some play on my memory’s misery??)    Some dust, some haziness,                                a puff of debris?? I witnessed some life on this cold-hearted orb?? Brings wild dreams of moon meteorites        To rain on my roof,        what imagined true delight!   Years later I see my tektites and learn         How some did once yearn         To believe these glass pieces                            were tears of my moon..          I caress their belief                  then dismiss their hard wishes          In favor of my own wishes                  for Apollo dust,                  or even just Russian Luna rust.   The day did finally at long last arrive       as chips and specks of DAGs did beckon       to awake the desire and the fire                               for me alone to reckon. Now I sit quite broken of funds,         but I have my speck of moon in hand,        Even while I hope a larger chunk to land,        So I needn’t squint so hard        through my microscopic sight! How to embrace a grain of sand???????   - j. murakami