(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 Gheorghes Works
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/3astro-sketch/
Alastair McBeaths 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 Gheorghes Moon, Planets, Meteors
http://www.astropoetica.com/Winter04/moonplanets.html
David Asher & Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
http://www.astropoetica.com/Winter05/iap_4.html
Jeremie Vaubaillons 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
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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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