For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (336): Inertia of Inertia (182)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
- Published: Monday, November 30 -0001 00:00
BEAUTY CIRCULATION
(Bucharest, September 11, 2020)
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
One morning I saw Selene
transferring her beauty to Venus,
who tried to show me
another area of interest,
which Helios later sustained
by his light:
the Domnita Balasa Church
(now under renovation).
In its yard,
one of the most impressive statues in Romania
(made by sculptor Karl Stork in 1881),
representing a unique woman:
the daughter of a martyred and sanctified
ruler (Constantin Brancoveanu),
the founder of this church (1743)
together with a school and an asylum
in memory of her father,
a noble princess called Balasa,
as well as the subject of a daily transfer
of heavenly beauty.
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