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# Poem: Selene, smashed not shattered
- URL: https://jatan.space/selene-smashed-not-shattered/
- Published: 2026-04-14T06:22:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-14T06:22:04.000Z
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Verses

*Tucked in a tiny timed capsule* 
*against its wonky, worldly windows* 
*mesmerized the momentary Moonfarers* 
*at sweeping sights of Selene* 
  
*Creased by craters and crowning peaks* 
*melts and mountains molded in weeks* 
*amid barrages of ballistically laid beads* 
*lingered the landscape of Luna* 
  
*What the world could view* 
*is impact not as distant* 
*through the capsule crew* 
  
*For a world bent and battered* 
*showed that it wasn’t shattered* 
*that it was weathered, not withered* 
*trembled, not tamed or tattered* 
  
*Just like the proud people* 
*on our pretty planet* 
*defending their dignity* 
*with greater gravity* 
  
*What the world could view* 
*is impact not as distant too.* 
*When will that brew?*

![](https://jatan.space/content/images/2026/04/artemis-ii-lunar-flyby-moon-earth-impact-craters-closeup.jpg)

Our Moon and Earth as seen by [Artemis II](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-269/) astronauts during their April 6 lunar flyby. Image: [NASA / Artemis II](https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/)

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**Notes:** This poem is for Days [13](https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-12/) and [14](https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-13/) of the [Global Poetry Writing Month](https://www.napowrimo.net/about/). I wrote it to capture and metaphorically reflect on the [striking, geologically rich landscape](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-270/) we all could see through the eyes of NASA’s Artemis II astronauts as they flew by the Moon.

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