Après avoir autour du soleil tourné
Après avoir autour du soleil tourné Pendant des millions d’années. Après s’être de la comète détaché Et dans le froid espace vogué Cette poussière s’est dirigée vers la Terre. La voici qu’elle se fond dans l’atmosphère. Et dans les rétines de milliers d’êtres Pour ses derniers kilomètres Son image s’est figée. - by Raoul Lannoy (AWB National Coordinator for Belgium) Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment Click Here to Login
A Perseid
Slamming into the atmosphere In a slap-smacking belly flop A tiny grain of meteoroid sand Dives through space Vaporizing Lighting the sky until It slips into the water of dark night. - by Joan Chamberlin Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment Click Here to Login
Meteor Poetry
-essay by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe- The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM), as both a member of the International Meteor Organization and Astronomers Without Borders, salutes the new Perseid poems published in the Astropoetry Blog. Regarding meteor poetry, it is important to remember that the masterpiece of Romanian poetry, Luceafarul - The Evening Star, written by Mihai Eminescu in 1883 and included in Guinness Book as the longest love poem of the world, can be considered also a meteor poem - please see an essay about it by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Alastair McBeath (first published by the International...
An August Morn
Body embraced by an old lawn chair, bare feet nestled in cold, dewy grass, drowsy eyes focus on an ancient patch of sky where Perseus attempts to liberate Andromeda, and a sad Cassiopeia, Queen of the Sky… slowly reels forward in her chair. Overhead Venus shines effervescent, like some cosmic spotlight on an ethereal stage. Where I the sole audience, sit and wait in early morning darkness. Silence reigns among darkened homes where those alseep are missing the big show. The gift arrives like some great firefly in the midsummer night air, a stroke of blazing white light dazzles my...
Thank you Perseid for waking me up
Waking up, fall back to sleep Waking up, fall back to sleep What is waking me up? Is there something I should be doing? Ok I'm awake now, I will get up Still dark outside Woke up the old dog, lets go outside Walked outside, looked up and said WOW Familiar points of lights in the sky Hello friends I say to myself Neck cocked back, scanning the night sky of beauty A dim streak of light falls A construction vehicle beeper in the distance Another dim light falls from the sky Train whistle blows A bright streak of light...
