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THE BEER CHARIOT Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe; special guest Valentin Grigore (1st picture) On one of the days of SARM's Perseid camps in the hot summer of 2020 (Runcu Stone, July 24), Valentin Grigore photographed the constellation Ursa Major aka the Great Bear, nicknamed the Big Dipper or the Great Chariot in folklore. On one of the hot days that followed (Bucharest, September 13, 2020) I went to the Beer Chariot, the most famous restaurant of this kind in Bucharest (founded in 1869 in a superb building). After a few beers, only the solar reflections could help me...
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OLD MOON, NEW MOON Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore September 15, 2020. The Moon: age 27 days, 7 % lighting and its gray light. September 16, 2020. Last look at the Moon in the morning sky: age 28 days, 2.5 % lighting and light from the Sun reflecting in the earthly oceans, which thus illuminate the lunar seas. September 19, 2020. The Young Moon (or “Crai Nou” - New King in Romanian folklore). September Moon, still with wings of summer. Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment Click...
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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,...
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MUSICAL CALL (Bucharest, September 21, 2020) Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe One evening I walked on the edge of the Carol I Park, attracted by the incredible music of a progressive rock band, which came not from the Roman Arenas (a large theater made in 1906), nor from the Silver Knife Church (founded in the 18th century and rebuilt in the Moldovan version of the Neo-Romanian style in 1906), but from a pre-war factory (now transformed into a restaurant). Suddenly I saw another witness, the Moon, but she was in a hurry and got off at a minibus station...
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TRIUMPHANT RETURN (Bucharest, July 19, 2020) Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe On December 8, 2019, I took the picture below, including the Palace of Parliament (the largest civilian-administrative building in the world), the Cathedral of National Salvation (the largest Orthodox Church in the European Union) and the planet Venus (the brightest heavenly object with a stellar aspect). Uranus (“sky” in old Greek) was the sky god in Greek mythology and inspired both the names of a planet and a beautiful Bucharestian district, built on a hill (closer to the sky). But the totalitarian regime demolished much of the hill...
