SARM's Astropoetry Master Club, Romania
- Published: Tuesday, July 27 2010 07:00
Presented by the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM)
In Celebration of Global Astronomy Month
by SARM's Astropoetry Master Club, Romania
English translations from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
PART I. TO BECOME OURSELVES
A great gift of our times
is the existence of
Astronomers Without Borders.
So now it is easier for us
to follow
human ideals,
to embrace
the Sun and the Moon,
planets and comets,
asteroids and stars,
meteors and deep sky objects,
and to become ourselves
Astronomers Without Borders.
--Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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What would we be
if astronomy would be
just a science without feelings?
--Valentin Grigore
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alignment of insectariums
on your fingers
asteroids with wings of nickel
nails grow on irregular orbits
over the pain of pricked flesh
sprites organize meetings in all the sides
of a space without form
they play with whirligig-planetariums
and twin with the twilight
there are not borders to break their minds
they show collections of
proto-stars dreaming the light
and invent blue mornings
and our dreams -
catapults up to beyond
the Plutonian shadows
--Dan Mitrut
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Planets dance around us.
Some people
watch the show
with or without a telescope,
while many other people
prefer
to criticize one another.
--Ion(ut) Moraru
PART II. ROAD TOWARDS LIGHT
Soul and Stars
new and new borders
road towards light
--Iulian Olaru
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Bells hide in the darkness
that bakes in the birth of the flowers.
I lend myself
to the green flames of the longing
and smoke the sand of the galaxy
twisting in hourglasses.
I have to exile
myself
to the desert
and to prescribe
to myself
dust of stars
and silence...
--Adrian Sima
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My friends,
it can be supposed that the astronomers
do not recognize borders.
I just hope that
nobody will invent
restrictive astronomy.
--Victor Chifelea
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What was the first?
An egg or a galaxy?
Who knows?
A supernova
right in the abyss.
What does she want to say?
The sand of the sea.
The sand of galaxies.
Unique miracle.
We all see
what is visible.
But the unseen?
Infinite worlds
cohabit in the Cosmos.
Where do we are?
--Dominic Diamant
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Evening stars lift from waters,
dancing over hidden depths.
Mysteries interfere in lights
that we wish to last
in puppets of time,
where we have remained
children of misunderstood stars.
--Costin Negoita
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Here, on Earth,
the names of the stars are identical
in every language,
the sky shows itself to us
in the same way,
each of us is carried faster
by the thought towards the dream,
and our dream is one:
the road towards the stars' hypnotic abyss.
We don't have names in the upper world,
the suns burn their bodies without us,
the light carries us and gives us life,
and we sublimely burn
through dreaminess.
--Elena Andreea Alecu
PART III. MY NAME IS UNIVERSE
I have only light in my eyes,
fire and trails of comets
gush from my fingers,
my hair is frozen,
my breath gives birth to eternity...
Yes, you have remembered me...
My name is...
Universe.
--Maria Sima
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Evening star,
source of wonderful dreams,
tear of silver necklace,
I open the abyss
by smiling to you.
I close my eyes...
I touch you...
and you are there.
I catch you...
I model you...
I give you a name...
and I visit you every evening.
--Lucian Boboc
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Some of the poets admire
the celestial charm
and sing and write passionately
about the starry magic.
They prowl by verse among the stars
and, just like the Universe that orders
unlimited mysteries,
the astropoets don't know borders.
--Zigmund Tauberg
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Astral traveller,
find that the Earth visa
has been excluded.
--Gelu Claudiu Radu-
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Bugles sing from the stars,
heralding new victories,
we dream of unseen realms,
approved tacitly by the Creator.
It is obvious,
astropoetry
brings harmony.
On Earth, somewhere,
a friend tells about cosmic peace,
love and dreams do not have borders,
Poetry is re-written on canopies.
--Boris Marian (Mehr)
NOTE: SARM has organized its own international project, "Astropoetry for the Global Astronomy Month," in the following web site:
Cosmopoetry - SARM and Friends
A first announcement of SARM's project is also available online here.
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