(meteorobs) METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (7)

Valentin Grigore vali_sarm at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 21 03:57:56 EDT 2006


METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (7) 
- Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (adg at sarm.ro), Alastair
McBeath (meteor at popastro.com), Valentin Grigore
(vali_sarm at yahoo.com) -

In this issue: 

I. FALLEN STAR
II. METEOR DIALOGUES
III. METEOR POEMS 
IV. HUMOROUS METEOR TRIALOGUE
V. PERSEIDS - ROMANIAN MEMORIES  
VI. MAGELLANIC CLOUDS AND METEORS 

Previous issues:   
-Leonid 2002 Poetry – prologue, December 2002 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1088   
-MCPP (1), June 2003 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1177   
-MCPP (2), December 2003 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1321   
-MCPP (3), June 2004 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1392   
-The Song of the IMC – a September 2004 supplement 
by Jeremie Vaubaillon 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1455   
-MCPP (4), December 2004 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1507   

-MCPP (5), June 2005 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1573   
-MCPP (6), December 2005 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1649   


The next issue, for which we wait for submissions,
will appear at the winter solstice 2006. 
- Coordinators - 

"I wish all of you many moments of appreciation of the
beauty of the world, not in the least of the night sky
and of meteors!" 
- Cis Verbeeck (Belgium) - 

I. FALLEN STAR

COSMIC STONES 
- by Arnold Leinweber (1920-2006, Romania) - 

We know that the meteoroids 
gravitating without station 
could be virtual meteors. 

We also know that Terra 
travelling on its own orbit 
has a cloth - 
the protecting atmosphere. 

In contact with the atmosphere, 
they begin to disintegrate
seeming to be falling stars. 

If they do not totally burn 
in the atmosphere, 
they drop on Terra - 

a strange blend 
becoming museum pieces. 
The End. 

II. METEOR DIALOGUES

FALLING STARS 
- by Iulian Olaru (Romania) and Dan Mitrut (Romania) -


Iulian Olaru: 
Last night, a +2 magnitude meteor, coming from the
zenith to the left of Gemini, made me think of the
folk belief that someone dies when a star falls
 

Dan Mitrut: 
Another folk belief says that meteors are human souls
climbing the sky at the person's birth. These beliefs
are not contradictory, but complementary, because the
people tried to transcend cosmic matter, to give soul
to the sky and to give sense to the phenomena. That
was the road from metaphysics to spirituality
  

METEORIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE EPHEMERIDES 
- by Mohamad Magdy (Egypt) and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(Romania) - 

Mohamad Magdy:
I could make astronomical ephemerides for stars,
comets, asteroids and all celestial phenomena
 All I
need is a work team to share
 for goodness! 

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe: 
Unfortunately, the meteors are so ephemeral
 

ANOTHER YEAR 
- by John Francis Haines (U.K.) and Andrei Dorian
Gheorghe (Romania) - 

John Francis Haines: 
Very cold here, out mostly dry - in fact, it's been a
very dry winter altogether. The garden's stirring into
life, which means that Spring is just around the
corner, then the endless round of lawn-mowing,
hedge-clipping, will begin again for another year. 

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe: 
As well as the meteor observational campaigns, in
order to take care of the celestial garden.   

III. METEOR POEMS 

SPHERICAL GEOMETRY 
- by Diana Maria Ogescu (Romania) - 

The Sky is an immense cupola. 
Heterogeneous seeds bear fruit, 
as in a solarium. 
>From seeds with people 
I came up too. 
Abyssal germens gave birth 
to the planets with orbits 
and fireball heads. 

METEOR 
- by Boris Marian (Romania) - 

Once, in the deep night, 
I heard a meteor passing. 
I'll never forget 
that late moment of rest, 
I seemed like a dead person alive, 
overwhelmed with fear, 
for that meteor didn't extinguish itself, 
but it said, with the voice of a raven
 

on my word, it was a meteor 
saying to me just: "Nevermore." 

LYRIDS 
- by Michaela Al. Orescu (Romania) - 

rumours of light 
the god Orpheus' lyre 
drips in April

A TEAR FROM THE SKY 
- by Tania Tilici (Romania) - 

A tear from the sky comes to melt into the sea. 
Noise of the tear disturbs the waters, 
But after a while the sweet calm returns 
And the sea rearranges its blue ribbons 
As if nothing had happened. 

A child watching asks: 
"Oh, sky, 
Is your mirror so peaceful?"

A NIGHT OF THE ETA AQUARIDS 
- by Alina Istrate (Romania) - 

I'm sorry_ 
the theme for today seems to have escaped 
into a parallel universe
 

I try to sketch an image 
of last night's sky, 
but whatever I would say, 
nothing compares with the feeling 
awake when all around you sleep 
(excepting a few drunken men,
as stray as Eta Aquarid meteors), 
and you watch the stars
 
that immense universe 
with invincible barriers
 

Only by dreaming I can travel 
through the galaxies 
I patiently try to find
    

FIREBALL 
- by Roxana Petcu (Romania) - 

starting like a crazy being 
from among some fellow meteoroids
 

ending like a remembrance 
near a lonely giant
 

THE GREAT CHARIOT 
- by Doina Chilargi (Romania) - 

I shall choose a star 
from the Great Chariot 
to enlighten my road to you, 
and I shall give you my love 
in warm nights of May. 

And if you really want to be with me 
in nights full of dreaminess, 
we shall travel among the stars- 
a couple of meteors 
carried by the Great Chariot. 
 
ON OLYNTHOS SITE 
- by Steve Sneyd (U.K.) - 

from buried cellar 
digs meteorite, cleans, reads 
alpha omega, 
across millennia feels 
fear-wonder of last witness

THE CONTRABAND ASTRONOMER 
- by Adrian Sima (Romania) - 

they arrested 
the contraband astronomer 
on a white night 

rummaging in his luggage 
they found 
a few corpses of meteors 
a line of a poem 
and a nice girl 

I HOPED 
- by Irina Cristescu (Romania) - 

I hoped I could believe in the skies, 
And stars would be my confidants, 
But I believed uselessly, 
The Sun didn't appear for me 
To distinguish stars in the ocean. 

Only the Moon lightens tenderly, 
But its light is 
The vibration of a sad poet, 
The chimera of a supernova, 
Or maybe a black hole 
With fireballs as sentinels. 

METEOR IMAGES FROM MY POEMS 
COMPOSED IN COMMUNIST POLITICAL PRISONS (4) 
1957, AIUD PRISON. METEOR SHOWER 
- by Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator (Romania) - 

Over the mountains, mouths of dragons 
Pouring out fire, flames
 
As I seem to be Cunctator, 
Even Prometheus seems to be 
Their coordinator. 

HAIKU 
- by Sue Mill (Australia) - 

reflected 
in the still lake 
a meteor's tail   

TERRANOIA ON MARS 
- by Dan Mitrut (Romania) - 

A dust storm sending to the craters 
my red, crazy, whirling fear 

a glass thoroughfare 
a bare-footed path crying for water 
for the home stars 

fallen scales, drying wings 
crawling, jingling 
dying with the flight 
thrusting nails of meteorites 

twilight on Mars 
the Earth rising 
like a living e-mail hieroglyph 

LOVE FOR STARS 
- by Cristina Slovineanu (Romania) - 

As a poor meteor 
I wanted the sky 
Till it was filled 
With thousands of stars 

And I fell down 
Because my sparkle 
Wanted me burning 
>From the beginning 

STARRY CHILDHOOD 
- by Cornel Cuciureanu (Romania) - 

In my childhood 
I was fascinated 
by the canopy of heaven. 
I still feel those autumns 
with the strange perfume of the leaves 
fallen from poplar trees and birch trees, 
hammocks for me to sit down 
and to admire the sky full of stars, 
to watch the artificial satellites 
and to thrill with each meteor 
consuming of the fire 
on its own trajectory... 

FORCE OF METEOR 
- by Felicia Manea (Romania) - 

through the wing of the word 
its power runs 
falling into the universe

AUTUMNALS 
- by Dominic Diamant (Romania) - 

astral hunter 
golden belt sparkling 
orionids   

quadruped mooing 
through the starry dust 
taurids 

SUPERPOSED MYTHOLOGIES 
- by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania) - 
(Author's Note: In many mythologies, a fireball is
often personified as a dragon-man.) 

"I'd drink some blood of a god!"- 
said the dragon-man, 
crushing with his fire tongue 
a lost hero. 
"Silence," I shouted, 
"don't blend the things!"- 
and I hit his face 
with my angel wings. 

"I'd drink some blood of a poltergeist!"- 
said the dragon-man, 
killing with his bright mace 
an innocent vampire. 
"Shut-up, fool," I shouted, 
"it would be a cosmic disaster!"- 
and I thrashed his hide 
with my devil horns. 

"Oh, I want blood of ponderous matter!"- 
said the dragon-man, 
scratching abominably its palms 
by my void knees. 

- composed in 1986 - 

I'M SORRY! 
- by Felicia Mohr (Romania) - 

I see stars falling 
in a group or solitaire. 
I never saw with true eyes 
the sky giving birth to stars. 

LEONIDS -
SKY CONTROLLERS, 2004 NOVEMBER 18TH 
- by Catalin Paduraru (Romania) - 

Hooray!!! 
We had a clear night again! 

We saw a few Leonid meteors, 
but we couldn't avoid our 200mm telescope. 
So we also saw more galaxies in Leo, 
Coma Berenices and even Virgo (against boredom), 
photographed Saturn and Jupiter, 
and
 checked some comets. 

Thanks, Leonids!
We had a clear night again! 
Hooray!!!

STRANGE NIGHT 
- by Tina Visarian (Romania) - 

The Cosmic Tree is burning 
and the Moon is red and broken, 
erupting meteors
 

GEMINIDS 
- by Diana Georgescu-Mitrut (Romania) - 

The sky is asleep. 
Covered by white blankets, 
he hardly watches the earth. 

The Lion to the right, 
tired Perseus to the left 
(waiting unhappy for the summer). 

Only the Twin Brothers, 
thinking of the closed New Year, 
would celebrate the winter coming 
through fireworks, 
to wish us 
a shining "welcome". 

A WISH TO THEY WHO LOVE 
THE RAINS OF STARS 
- by Cristian Cristian (Romania) - 

Clear skies outside, 
rains of joy inside!       

IV. HUMOROUS METEOR TRIALOGUE 

“stellar branches are so far away 
eternity is so pale and banal 
the flesh storm is destructive 
and the spirit storm is mortal” 
- Florian Saioc (Romania) - 

IF YOU WANT TO STOP A METEOR 
- by Razvan Andrei, Valeriu Tudose and Andrei Dorian
Gheorghe (all from Romania) - 

Razvan Andrei: 
The friction speed of the small bodies is significant,
their fall speed is reduced, tens of kilograms falling
make a hole smaller than if you hit the Earth with a
maul. 
Why should I split the speed into components? 

Valeriu Tudose: 
The angle of a meteor entering into the atmosphere is
important. 
If it enters vertically, it can be easier stopped than
if it enters obliquely (a case in which the meteor's
weight is opposed by the vertical component of the
frictional force, which in the air is proportional to
the square of the respective body). 
So, more oblique in the atmosphere (or if the
horizontal component of the speed is bigger), more
difficult to stop it.   

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe: 
If you, my friends, explain all these things to a
meteor, I'm afraid he stops alone. 

V. PERSEIDS - ROMANIAN MEMORIES 

"Nothing in this world compares, in beauty and
greatness, with that feeling lived in the Perseid
nights beneath the stars
" 
- Valentin Grigore - 

METEOR IMAGES FROM MY POEMS 
COMPOSED IN COMMUNIST POLITICAL PRISONS (5) 
1956, DEJ PRISON. PERSEID NIGHT 
- by Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator - 

Shadow of roe in the fantastic night call, 
Goddess sleeping in the fairy forest, 
Wind breezing gently a pine tree head
 
It's the August night when the stars fall.

PERSEID HAIKU 
- by Iulian Olaru - 

First stars; 
the dance of the meteors 
opens the sky 

PERSEID NIGHTS 
- by Alin Tolea (Romania / U.S.A.) - 

Many of us learned the ways of the stars here. 
Many of us felt their souls furrowed by the mute
passing of meteors and washed their gazes in the light
of the galaxies placed at millions of light years. 
Many of us found under stars the hope that life has a
new sense, and the wonders are possible at anytime
 

PERSEIDS 1995-2005 
- by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe - 

I saw Perseid meteors from 
mountains, hills, fields, 
and I unconditionally admired 
their innocent sky games. 

I drink a glass of light for them: 

with their fascinating variations, 
the Perseids always remain 
a constant alternative 
against a crazy world. 

THE DARKNESS WE WAITED 
(memories from the Perseids 1997 expedition, Bunila,
Romania) 
- by Calin Niculae - 

>From time to time, the long thunder of the airplanes
crossing the sky arrived to us, through reverberations
repeated by the roundness of the hills, to remember
how passing is all. All, there, being in fact a kind
of mixture of curious flying insects, herbs among the
trees, meadows where hayricks are all day long combed
by people to grow a little more, rivulets and springs,
lights and silence somewhere far away, next to
mountains. 

In the daytime, big birds with shades of cloud tried
to tie the horizons, but the evening made them retire
into other places. The sky became blue, wanting to be
friendly with the world from below and the myriads of
suns from above. 

I didn't understand if the weather is like the people
there, or the people are like the weather, but for us
it came the time to begin the ritual: when the night
lowered over the hills, in the darkness we waited, we
were already concentrated on the strange instruments
that brought us closer to galaxies, nebulae, meteors. 
The day began again when the World bent to the Sun to
put it above, and all repeated the same, without
boring, with the small works of people, flying
insects, herbs, birds. 

All was unchanged, excepting us: we were a little
richer. 

PERSEID OBSERVER 
- by Dominic Diamant -

In the heavenly garden 
rustling of mysteries, 
courageous flying beings 
with chimerical wings
furrow the blossom canopy 
vibrating of high silence. 
They disappear beyond secret gates, 
leaving hopes for the others
 

In a modest corner, 
an ephemeral witness 
is hardly chosen by the miracle, 
but thirsty for this show.

PERSEIDS 2001 - CORBASCA CAMP, ROMANIA 
- by Dan Mitrut - 

Thanks to those who proved a 
terrible spirit of astronomical gang, 
making from this camp 
a place of friendship, 
and keeping alive the flame of 
being close to the clear sky. 

Remember those nights when 
we talked about constellations 
and shouted after meteors
        

PERSEID THREATENING 
- by Victor Chifelea - 

Every year in August 
I meet roving glowworms of the sky 
spread in Perseus' mantle. 

I stay crucified on the cold soil 
and, hypnotized, I watch the 
impertinent insects stinging 
the night's velvet. 

And every time I'm afraid 
their pricking could inflame 
the inert darkness, 
and we would be sentenced to live 
a never-ending summer day. 

PERSEIDS 2002 
- by Alexandru Conu - 

A -8 fireball, and another one of -5. 
Otherwise, numerous meteors, 
but not too bright. 
The greatest show: a Sporadic 
fragmenting into 3 pieces, 
and leaving something like a fine powder. 
Maximum of the maximum
 

PERSEIDS 
- by Cristina Slovineanu - 

We burn and nobody catches us 
We scream and nobody hears us 
We dream of immortality 
That fascinates humanity 

So we burn, burn and fall 
To ephemeral destinations 
Because all we are and all we have, 
We offer as mysteries

PERSEIDS 2002 
- by Teodora Plaesu - 

One hour between two rains
 
Perseids flying in all directions. 
I re-lived some of the emotions 
given by the multicoloured Leonids in 2001, 
but this time the Perseids persisted 
in white, blue, green and yellow, 
some of them with traces, 
others short and fast. 

One hour between two rains, 
and I'm happy I saw 
many "daughters" of Perseus_  

PERSEID MAXIMUM QUESTION 
(haiku variant) 
- by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania) - 

It's August. 
Is Perseus so upset 
with all that happens on Earth?  

PERSEIDS 2003 – 
FROM THE NIGHT DARK, 
MY LUNETTE WAS BORN 
- by Alina Istrate -

Hi people! 
My lunette was born from my artistic fantasy 
during the Perseid meteor shower, 
and I named it Nyx. 
It is ready to serve me all my life 
because it has become a part of mine. 
I'll tell you more about its performances 
in the future. 

But now I must go to make a composition 
for the high school. 
I think I'll write something on the last Perseids, 
many of them red, pigmented by real fireballs
 

PERSEID HAIKU 
- by Ion Moraru - 

flock of migratory birds 
crossing the Earth 
joyously shine once a year 

PERSEIDS 
- by Silviu Georgescu - 

There, somewhere, in the night, 
an orbital mute screw 
rends the sky. 
It seems like 
the playful daughters of Perseus 
overturned the family's diamond box.

Year after year, indiscreet, 
we count amazed 
the inestimable astral treasure.    

AT THE "PERSEIDS 2004" CAMP, DARMANESTI, ROMANIA 
- by Alexandru Tudorica - 

The meteors made me so enthusiastic, 
that I climbed a big antenna near the camp. 

But some guardians stopped me 
and fined me because I wanted 
to be closer to the sky
 

NIGHTINGALES OF LIGHT 
- by Adrian Sima -

sometimes I still cry 
through open windows 

sometimes I still bleed 
thinking I am alive 

all of these are shining incidents 
and only the slide on cosmic stones 
is sacred 

in the song of the nightingales of light 
which are not 
but could be 

PERSEID BLESSING
- by Dimitrie Olinici - 

I built a private observatory in the village of
Horodnic-Suceava, in a small isle on a rivulet, where
now my grandsons play astronomy with other children. 
I shall also call some friends with the first Perseid
meteor shower, we all together to bless that place
 

VI. METEORS AND MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 

MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 
- by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania) - 

There are smaller galaxies. 
In fact, they are cubs of the galaxy 
Keeping close to their mother. 
But who is their father? 
We don't know. 

Thus, in this space full of storms 
(From meteors to stars) 
Even proud galaxies, 
That cannot be measured in yards, 
Have bastards. 

MAGELLANIC METEOR, 
2005, OCTOBER 25TH 
- by Danut Ionescu (Romania / New Zealand) - 

"
and a star fell 
at my wedding party
" 
(from Miorita, the Romanian national myth-ballad) 

Near the North-East edge
of the Greater Magellanic Cloud, 
a red meteor appeared, 
about 10-12 degrees long, 
and disappeared discreetly 
with a fine powder, 
like a wonder. 

Yours, 
the same "mioritical" from the South, 
DanutzI 

SOUTHERN METEORS AND MAGELLANIC CLOUDS 
- by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania) - 

A praise to the meteors 
of the southern hemisphere: 
Puppid-Velids, Phoenicids, 
Piscis Austrinids and others. 
They enrich the noble family 
of the meteor showers. 

A praise to the 
Greater Magellanic Cloud 
of the constellation Dorado, 
and another praise to the 
Littler Magellanic Cloud 
of the constellation Tucana. 
Together, they enrich the noble family 
of the galaxies. 

But the Magellanic Clouds, 
masters of the southern sky ceremonies,
are so bright, 
that I'm afraid that 
Doradid meteor storms 
and Tucanid meteor storms 
would never be born! 

*** 

OTHER METEOR POEMS 

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s Works 
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/3astro-sketch/  
Alastair McBeath’s Leonids – sort of 
http://www.astropoetica.com/Fall05/iap_6.html  
The Best of SARM - Astro-Photo-Art-Poetry 
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/tbos/  
Astropoetic Dramas 
http://sarm.astropoetica.com/astrodrama/contents.html 

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s Moon, Planets, Meteors
http://www.astropoetica.com/Winter04/moonplanets.html 
David Asher & Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
http://www.astropoetica.com/Winter05/iap_4.html 
Jeremie Vaubaillon’s Poems
http://www.imcce.fr/en/presentation/equipes/GAP/membres/JV/Song_of_the_IMC04.html

Romanian Comet Contemporary Poetry 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/comets-ml/message/9436 



* * * * * * * * * * * * * 
Valentin Grigore 
President of SARM - Societatea Astronomica Romana de Meteori 
  (Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy) 
CP 14, OP 1, Targoviste, RO-130170, Dambovita, ROMANIA 
phone: +40 245 213851, +40 0722829034 (gsm) 
e-mail: vali_sarm at yahoo.com, president at sarm.ro 
http://www.sarm.ro 
http://www.geocities.com/valisarm 
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro 
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