(meteorobs) METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (9)
Valentin Grigore
vali_sarm at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 21 15:45:35 EDT 2007
METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (9)
In this issue:
I. PLANETARIUM METEORS
II. HUMOUR (1)
III. METEOR POEMS
IV. HUMOUR (2)
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
-MCPP (7), June 2006
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1701
-MCPP (8), December 2006
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news/message/1785
The next issue, for which we wait for submissions,
will appear at the winter solstice 2007.
- Coordinators: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(adgsarm at gmail.com),
Alastair McBeath (meteor at popastro.com),
Valentin Grigore (vali_sarm at yahoo.com) -
"In the end, meteor observing is a human art, a human
activity, and if there is any expression that can make
people stop for a second and think about that, that is
very valuable because it makes meteor observing more a
part of every day life and of the general human
experience."
-Peter Jenniskens (Holland / U.S.A.),
extract from an interview at IMC 1998, Stara Lesna-
I. PLANETARIUM METEORS
A STORY AT THE GATE OF THE SKY
-by Alina Istrate (Romania)-
I visited a planetarium
where I was hoaxed
by that artificial sky...
and even by an artificial fireball.
I could swear it all was true!
Space will always remain
one of the people's dreams,
I don't understand why,
I just feel it...
PRESUMPTION
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-
I think that a fireball
simulated in a planetarium
is like a robot
wishing to be a man,
or rather like a firework
wishing to be a real star.
II. HUMOUR (1):
FROM AN INTERVIEW AT IMC 1998, STARA LESNA
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania):
What are your plans for future?
Shelagh Godwin (U.K.):
To observe more meteors.
Jim Godwin (U.K.):
To support my wife to observe more meteors.
III. METEOR POEMS
"Although it was the Quadrantid 2003 maximum night,
the real heroes were two sporadic meteors
that made us exult."
-Valentin Grigore (Romania)-
LAST ROUNDUP
-by Steve Sneyd (U.K.)-
last roundup dreg sparks
from Big Cold been fired back shoot
through our times glue in
transit going to bootstrap
Big Bang's dark energy's game
THREE VISIONS OF METEORS
-by Dominic Diamant (Romania)-
1. Quintessence
Through the Universe,
sometimes I am hit by the perfume
of the falling stars burning,
and at other times
the human quintessence
provokes in me
a divine rustling.
2. Quadrantids
hibernal hour
naiads bathing in the sky
I try to measure
3. From A Falling Star
>From a falling star,
a minuscule diamond
took shape.
>From a pale twilight,
amazed and moved,
I contemplate the miracle.
HAMLET
-by Boris Marian (Romania)-
*
To be or not to be...
a meteor.
A starry wanderer
with a vast experience
on the edge of the Galaxy:
"I become older" - He says.
A poor starry poet
from flesh and blood,
and a little from fire.
*
To be or not to be...
a meteor.
We all love an unforgettable face,
carrying it in a wallet,
but we don't know where
the wallet is, so
certainly we lost it
on a planet which disappeared
a long time ago.
*
To be or not to be...
a meteor.
Every twilight a teacher asks himself,
when the sky becomes red
and unseen stars pass in a hurry.
To be or not to be...
a meteor.
We launched space rockets
to celestial oceans,
but children noisily play,
the lift is defective,
MacBeth is not dead,
a neighbor is barbarian,
and I dont worry.
To be or not to be,
I believe like Heraclites
under the meteor glory.
LYRID MEMORIES (I)
-by Dan Mitrut (Romania)-
The twilight spirit, with trembling eyelashes, has
melted the fragile sickle of the Moon and the golden
rivet of Venus.
I carry the banal stress of the town and the quotidian
agitation in my bones.
I need redemption.
The Lion climbs the zenith.
Arcturus detaches from the northeast.
My heartbeats regulate.
Now I can calculate the sky's transparency.
A sporadic meteor just makes me repeat the count of
the stars.
METEOR IMAGES FROM MY POEMS
COMPOSED IN COMMUNIST POLITICAL PRISONS (7)
1962, BOTOSANI. (LATE ECHO)
-by Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator (Romania)-
Sacrificed youth mysteriously flying,
Becoming cinders from the sky embers,
Nothingness of roving smoke
Eternally surrounded by forgetfulness.
LYRID MEMORIES (II)
-by Dan Mitrut (Romania)-
Click: 23.07. A Lyrid of 1.5 magnitude. Click.
An aroma of buds and moist earth.
Maybe it comes from the constellations.
What is the colour of the sky?
Is it important? Better do something for money.
Do not lose your time.
Today money makes the colour of the sky.
Click: 00.24. A Lyrid of 0 magnitude. Click.
What is the colour of the sky?
It is not important. Leave these childish questions.
But I hear, see and finger the colour of the sky.
And I am happy.
Trees bud and blossom, and they don't need money.
They just live the colour of the sky, and their arms
touch the Milky Way.
And people, tired, will leave the Earth, covered only
by the
colour of the sky.
Corona Borealis. What a wonder!
The canopy of heaven teaches the same lesson because
the wonders do not call out in their galactic passing.
Click: 02.54. End of observations. Click.
SPARKLING MATTER
-by Adrian Sima (Romania)-
thoughts of the good arrive
from a long distance
sparkling matter hardly orbiting
and asking us
about the crossing
through the country
of the icy feelings
ON LIFE'S TRAJECTORY
-by Arnold Leiweber (1920-2006, Romania)-
On life's trajectory,
We are meteors-
Voyagers travelling on Terra.
On life's trajectory,
Man...
What an incandescent porch!
A strange soul burning just as a torch.
2003 JUNE 27/28. A NIGHT OF BOOTIDS
-by Alina Istrate (Romania)-
I suggest you drink good coffee
before reading this message,
or not read it,
because I'm afraid I could write a novel...
It was my last vacation night at the Black Sea,
there were a lot of variables in choosing
a place for observations,
and at about 22.00 I decided to go
(with a sky map and a binocular)
near the Tekirghiol lake,
where I installed myself on a stone.
A clear sky, a quiet place,
and all was too nice to be true.
I knew that under special conditions
the brain comports differently,
giving birth to hallucinations,
and I think I heard some mysterious noises...
So I changed my place,
climbing a staircase to a sanatorium.
At first I looked at Arcturus,
but down, some people drank something,
"Turn off the light" I shouted,
all of them were terribly amazed,
thinking I am an extraterrestrial girl...
on the other hand, a policeman thought
I wanted to commit suicide,
he climbed up to me and verified my sky map,
my notebook and my binocular,
remembering he had learned
some astronomy in the past,
after that he left me alone to watch
Bootes, Corona Borealis, Lyra and Bootes again,
waiting for the Bootid show,
but nothing, only a sporadic meteor at 12.07,
otherwise only airplanes and artificial satellites,
anyway a superb Milky Way,
and I found M4 in Scorpius,
M6, M7, M24 and M25 in Sagittarius,
finally the cold banished me,
I screamed to be helped to come down,
the same policeman came to me again
(you know the classical image
with the cat in the tree and the firemen)...
and I ran to my room
where I slept like an angel.
HAIKU
-by Iulian Olaru (Romania)-
if we would look
at the shouts
of the meteors...
CHILDHOOD
-by Danut Ionescu (Romania / New Zealand)-
I remember those summer nights
in my native town of Braila
when I watched the sky
from a cement platform
because an old lady had told me
it was the time for shooting stars.
We joyously counted them
and later I found they were the Perseids...
I DON'T WANT TO BE A STAR
-by Marius Din (Romania)-
I often confess to the night
Once a meteor lighted it
passing in a hurry, innocent-
a resolute meteor
that had to carry a confused corpuscle
I looked after it a lot
and now I ask myself
if I am dead, or still alive...
DREAM OF PERSEIDS
-by Alin Tolea (Romania / U.S.A.)-
What a longing for stars!
It fells me...
And dust in my hair...
And sacred tears...
Humble,
I dedicate myself to the skies.
Be merciful, you,
photographer of the Universe!
ASTRAL BELTS
-by Cristina Slovineanu (Romania)-
Astral belts,
proud spheres
sink in peaceful
veils of honey
and smile in thermic-ephemeral
jumps...
SARM PERSEID CAMP MEMORY
-by Paul Boboc (Romania)-
It's not easy to forget
the youthful years,
because every night you see
stars shining around you
and calling you to
contemplation and dreaminess.
I often remember those times
when, at Perseid camps,
we all shouted "Look!"
and the agitation and joy
to observe meteors
was like an amusing game...
GAMBLE
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-
It is not too pleasant
to be a meteoroid
wanting to become a shining meteor
and awaiting a planetary atmosphere.
Here it comes again.
What a damned gamble!
Will I be lucky
this time?
(Note: The author performed a longer variant of this
poem during the Astroshow of the International Meteor
Conference in Bareges, France, June 7-10.)
PERSEIDS
-acrostic by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania)-
Pleasant rains of light,
Ethereal yearly eruptions,
Racers that ephemerally play,
Sparks that burn in the night sky...
Each of them is wonderful,
Idyllic, great, full of longing,
Dignified, respectable, admirable...
Spontaneous, living shows until the morning.
METEOR IMAGE
-by Doina Antonie (Romania)-
My God,
make the light
of a falling star
rolling from Your palm
hit the eyelids
of he who doesn't see...
THEY DROWNED IN THE MILKY WAY
-by Nimal Dunuhinga (Sri Lanka)-
What a glorious morning!
If one blind can see the daybreak
and one deaf hear the prayers.
Where one dumb sings the saddest song
and one lame walks to the world's end.
Under the haughty sun and drowsy moon
these innocents were uprooted.
If the rainbow guides them to the hidden heaven
One day they can dance with the twinkling stars
and streak with meteors in the mysterious dark sky.
HAIKU
-by Michaela Al. Orescu (Romania)-
stormy fireball
breaking the atmosphere
with a strange noise
FLYING BEING
-by Emanuela Ignatoiu-Sora-
the beams looking back
and I chained to the neck of
a meteor-flying being
with my thoughts lost into a nebula
like a fluid story
ORIONIDS
-by Ion(ut) Moraru (Romania)-
Orion paints the night sky
and lightens the people
with his small shots.
DISCOVERY
-by Costin Oproiu (Romania)-
it was before the morning, an unusual hour,
we walked together like two romantics,
she said she loves me for I am so different,
I wanted to be kind, to impress her,
so I showed her the sky,
looking for some guiding marks,
but it seemed that nothing was like I knew,
not even the Great Chariot, not even Polaris,
Vega should be up there but it wasn't,
it's ridiculous, I thought,
however that red globe with a halo
should not replace the Pleiades
(I had drunk only one glass of wine before),
that giant nebula, that fabulous comet,
that unexpected meteor shower,
a strange Milky Way above,
it was another sky, totally different,
of another galaxy,
of another corner of the universe,
of another world,
I don't know how it could be there,
above our stalls,
above our vagabond dogs,
but soon I came to my senses, understanding that
I was the only one who knew,
so I had to be the first,
the chosen one, it was a high feeling, like in
a new Renaissance, we are only a few in history
who put the ordered flag of reason in such a large
zone,
so I became lucid, I sent my girlfriend home
(some day I'll dedicate to her
a sonnet or something fine,
to thank for her support),
I concentrated all my scientific abilities
to correct the error of the parallaxes,
I'll make a report for the
International Astronomical Union,
it will follow an immense activity of
mapping and classification,
a giant work of precision,
of course, an army of astronomers will help me,
anyway, I have to deliver a lot of lectures
to explain my absolute priority
(posterity will not reproach me this weakness,
we are people, after all),
I've already chosen an adequate star,
naming it Sundance
(in memory of those who invented
schools with lunettes).
HAIKU
-by Tina Visarian (Romania)-
amazed eyes in the night-
stars fall,
burnt by the moon
FALLING STARS
-by Hazeen Hasrat (Kashmir)-
Falling stars,
Yes, we are historical heroes,
We are all clean hearted inside,
So we sacrifice for others,
But every time we get in bloodshed,
Cause we are falling stars,
And again and again we rise,
In fact we never die.
LEO
-by Arnold Leinweber (1920-2006, Romania)-
The Lion gives us in the Cosmos
a triple star, some other stars,
and the little stars called Leonids
(to "bomb" November like kids).
IV. HUMOUR (2): ASTROLOGY AND FALLING STARS
-a Romanian quadrologue-
Dimitrie Olinici:
It's certain that the heavenly bodies influence
people.
The problem is that we cannot catch this influence in
mathematical equations.
Valeriu Tudose:
So, we cannot understand the stars' influence, we
cannot prove it, but it exists.
O.K.!
My friend from Aldebaran is laughing here, near me.
Oh... excuse me, his name is X34 and has long yellow
hair.
Nobody can see him, only me because he allows this
thing.
X34 is real, but the Aldebaranian technology is very
sophisticated, and we cannot detect him through our
primitive knowledge and machines.
Laurentiu Alimpie:
It seems we have common friends.
Is X34 a brother-in-law to the grandson of the cousin
of my friend from Epsilon Eridani? If so, the world is
so small!
(Pardon, I wanted to say... the Universe!)
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe:
Anyway, I'm quiet because the astrologers of today do
not dare to analyze the falling stars' influence to
our destinies.
They would probably risk being hit by fireballs.
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Valentin Grigore
President of SARM - Societatea Astronomica Romana de Meteori
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)
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