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Subject: (meteorobs) Meteor Contemporary
Poetry Project
Meteor
Contemporary Poetry Project
~Andrei Dorian
Gheorghe, Alastair McBeath, Valentin Grigore~
Since
1995, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy- SARM have offered yearly
anthologies of “meteor and astro” poetry to the participants at every IMC, all
these anthologies (which have become international since 1997) being edited by
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe with the support of Valentin Grigore.
At the IMC
2002, Andrei directed an artistic act, Meteor Poetry Parade, in which two
Romanian nice girls presented all the 1995- 2002 series. (Unfortunately, there
are many IMO members who couldn’t be present at those IMCs, and didn’t receive
the astropoetry anthologies.)
On 2002 December 13, Andrei and Valentin
published in the IMO- News electronic list another international anthology,
Leonids 2002 (“leopoetry”), including 23 texts from 5 continents. And a new
solution has appeared…
At the same time, since 2003 Alastair McBeath has
initiated Meteor Beliefs Project in WGN, based especially on his researches in
old meteor texts, mythology, observations and poetry (sometimes in
co-operation with Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and other researchers).
So, in a
better formula (Gheorghe, McBeath, Grigore), we propose you a new IMO
humanistic project: Meteor Contemporary Poetry. That means every year
(beginning with 2003), on the days of solstices, we shall publish original
mini-anthologies of meteor contemporary poetry in IMO-News, for which you can
send submissions to Alastair McBeath (meteor@popastro.com), Valentin Grigore
(sarm@romwest.ro) and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe(gheorghedorian@romtelecom.ro).
Here is the first series:
LEONID LIMERICK
~by David Asher
(UK)~
You should try very hard to remember
The meteor storm in
November,
As you’re likely to fail
To get a meteor trail
To repeat
the event in December.
(first published in Romanian Contemporary
Astropoetry 2002 and Guests; read by the author at the IMC 2002- Frombork)
THE END OF MIR SPACE STATION (haiku)
~by Galina Ryabova
(Russia)~
(In Russian, “mir” means “world”)
Is it a meteor
shower?
No, it is the last second
of the “world”.
(read by
the author at the IMC 2002- Frombork)
LEONIDS 2002
~by Steve
Sneyd (UK)~
other side of thick cloud cover,
they tell us, Leonids
stripe sky with glory-
the toy shop’s shut too, this time of night,
child eyes pressed to its window
can’t see through thick grey security
shutters
HAIKU
~by Giovanni Malito (Ireland)
a shooting
star
streaks the sky
making it real
TO VICTOR ANESTIN
(1875-1918)
~by Alastair McBeath (UK)~
(Victor Anestin was the
first organizer of meteor astronomy in Romania, and a great popularizer of
astronomy)
The early fireball of Romanian astronomy;
alas,
like a fireball,
too bright and too brief,
but dazzlingly impressive,
one to inspire us still today.
(read by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
at the Victor Anestin celebration, “Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Municipal
Observatory, Bucharest, 2003 January 11)
CLOSE
~by Valentin
Grigore (Romania)~
The sky is so close, that even a child’s thought
can touch it.
Don’t you feel its heart pulsating in every sprinkle of
star,
and its soul in the meteors’ flight?
However… it is so hard to
listen to its whispers
for understanding our sense
under its canopy of
light…
GEMINID METEOR SHOWER
~by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)~
(In Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux were considered protectors of
navigation)
The Twin Brothers walk in the sky,
dressed in the
night colours.
Traces of their steps
are seen as meteors and
fireballs,
protecting our spiritual navigation.
Castor and Pollux
walk in the sky,
calling the winter solstice
through flying balls of
fraternity,
and some heavenly justice.
EXCERPT OF DREAM
~Mircea Alexandru Popa (Romania)~
Earth - a sleeping giant
dreaming sceneries
with stars and pine trees
only the human
dust
remains glued
in its eyeslashes
like some meteors
irreversibly caught
in the planets trap
ABOUT A LEONID METEOR
~by Eliza Trandafir (Romania)~
So little alive,
suddenly
stock-still,
pressed by the cold darkness,
a small thread…
Past
before present.
Is it real?
Was it?
Or just the wish to see a
meteor?
Too fast for being light,
it will always be remembrance.
METEOR HAIKU
~by Iulian Olaru (Romania)~
life at
countryside-
sowing wishes,
you collect meteors
THE LAST
THOUGHTS OF A METEOR
~by Tina Visarian (Romania)~
The light covers
me,
I have a smell of stone sun…
and shine!
The night drips me
from the wind,
from nowhere.
The people’s look absorbs me…
and
I perish.
METEOR HAIKU
~by Gelu-Claudiu Radu (Romania)~
my
bizzare cometary dream
enlightening me
through meteors
(read by the author at IMC 2002- Frombork)
METEOR
LIMERICK
~by Ionel Catalin Diaconu (Romania)~
There was an
astronomer in a small town
Looking at the meteors falling down.
“Each
meteor is good for me!”- he said,
But one of them fell just into his head.
There was an astronomer in a small town…
QUATRAIN
~by
Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator (Romania)~
My God, living in eternity
I don’t see its childhood,
for a diamond meteor
is lost in an
abyss floor.
CRAZY AND FRAGIL… METEORS
~by Diana Maria Ogescu
(Romania)~
Crazy and fragil, meteors
like some fishes hungry of
night,
came to look for some food in the sky.
A meteor observer
catches a few fireballs in his right hand,
and poultices his wounded
left hand.
SET OF RADIANT
~by Geanina Popa (Romania)~
The
light of Persis’ dark soul
becomes feebler.
A lost Perseid meteor
looks for its sense in the sky,
like on the autumn, when the tree still
has a last leaf.
Looking at the stars around,
it chooses the destiny
for the next year.
IF
~by Dan Mitrut (Romania)~
if some
day you’ll break my heart
like warm bread
don’t give it to the
darkness
but to a meteor that
wants to live one more second
I
am not myself
but a lost orbit
for you,
dreams, stars, worlds
not to die desert
my cinders, wheat of light
(All the
translations from Romanian into English were made by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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