For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (323): Inertia of Inertia (169)

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Published: Monday, November 30 -0001 00:00

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REMEMBER
(Bucharest, August 24 and September 24, 2020)
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorgh

Danre Alighieri
(“Paradise”)
taught me the general idea,

Cyrano de Bergerac
(“The Other World: Comical History
of the States and Empires of the Moon”)
taught me the particular idea,

Nicolaus Copernicus
rented me his crater,

Galileo Galileo
guaranteed me telescopic diversity,

Ludwig van Beethoven
("Moonlight Sonata”)
delighted me with his music,

Jules Verne
(”From the Earth to the Moon”)
taught me attitude,

Herbert George Wells
(“The First Men in the Moon”)
taught me courage,

Apollo Missions
taught me that it is possible

and the Van Halen rock band
taught me to
JUMP
through the Van Allen radiation belt.