Summer Poems

By Jayanta Banerjee

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Banerjee is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He has studied, worked, and travelled extensively in Asia, Europe, and in North, Central, and South America. He publishes in the areas of engineering, social sciences, and education and also writes poems and short stories in English, Spanish, and Bengali.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palibrio
• Release date: Mar 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781506528212

Jayanta Banerjee

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Banerjee is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He has studied, worked, and travelled extensively in Asia, Europe, and in North, Central, and South America. He publishes in the areas of engineering, social sciences, and education and also writes poems and short stories in English, Spanish, and Bengali.

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Rev. date: 22/03/2019

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Eligia Briceno with grateful appreciation for all that she has done for our family: our children and grandchildren.

CONTENTS

The First Week

Friday Night at the Plaza Colón

Compassion

An E- mail from my daughter-in-law

Daddy-daughter Dialogue and Dilemma

She Deserves

The Flame

Ode to Borínquen

Motherly Divine Darkness and the Earthly Light

The Poets’ Night at Plaza Colón

A Poet’s Promise

Farewell to the Arms that Hug

Karuna: Campassion in Action

Another Face of Love

Father’s Day Gift

Love hasn’t withered away

Reflections

Migrant Mom

Songs in Silence

Migrant Mother

The Moon after the Storm

Hurricane Maria

In the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria

The Divine Darkness

Your Love

The Dream

Let’s Be Friends Again

Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Thinking of Our Past Love Life

Aftermath of The Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Love

Morning Shows The Day

Hurricane Maria

Re-reading Yevtushenko after half a century

On a Flight from Delhi to New York

Yevtushenko’s Hemmingway

Schools Are Closed

That Mango Tree and I

Deep into the Horizon

Palmas Del Mar

Binding the Blind

The First Week

Sing the songs of joy,

my little girls, my kids,

every morning when you get up

facing the rising sun.

Tell me the bedtime stories you have heard

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