English Original
new moon --
mother's story remains
half-told
Presence, 68, Fall 2020
Neena Singh
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
新月 --
母親的故事仍然
只說了一半
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
新月 --
母亲的故事仍然
只说了一半
Bio Sketch
Neena Singh is the author of Whispers of the Soul—The Journey Within and One Breath Poetry—a journal of haiku, senryu & tanka. A former banker, she runs a non-profit for underprivileged children in Chandigarh, India.
The jux. of a "new moon" (invisible from the earth) and "mother's story half-told" (for whatever reason) is visually and emotionally effective. And symbolically speaking, a new moon, which is the start of a new lunar cycle, symbolizes new beginnings, functioning well as a foreshadow of the speaker's mother's story unfolding into a clear life picture.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the juxtaposition of the lunar cycle and a mother’s fertility
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