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(meteorobs) Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project (2)



METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (2)
~Alastair McBeath (meteor@popastro.com), Valentin Grigore 
(president@sarm.ro), Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (sarm@romwest.ro); 
the next issue will appear on the summer solstice 2003~
	
HAIKU
~by Giovanni Malito (Ireland)~

clear night-
in the space of a smile
the meteor is gone

QUESTIONS
~by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania)~

Meteors fall one after the other,
And many questions challenge me.

Is it true 
The story about a meteorite 
That came and sowed spores
On this desert planet
For developing life?

Is it true
A violent fireball created
A big and murderous catastrophe
That destroyed the giant reptiles,
Making possible the apparition
Of the human species
On the long scale of evolution?

Is it true
An enormous fireball
Sunk Atlantis in the sea,
Changing history?

How many presumptions are true?
Questions fall one after the other.
Answers? Who knows...? When...? 

MEDITATION
~by Iulian Andrei (Romania)~

All of us cannot live without water.
All of us cannot live without air.
But only some of us cannot live without meteors.

MAY NIGHT (haiku)
~by Marco Langbroek (Holland)~

Frog sounds
And bats
Fly with the meteors

A METEOR AND CASSIOPEIA 
~by Diana Maria Ogescu (Romania)~ 

I slowly plunge into your arms, 
Silent Queen. 
 
I thread dear stars 
On the string of my thought, 
Looking at you, 
And coming to your bright and small feet, 
For I to be born again younger, 
A guardian in the Sky Palace.  

FIREBALL OVER THURSTONLAND 
~by Steve Sneyd (UK)~ 

Burning fingernail 
scratches message down blackboard 
of sky "Not alone." 

ANONYMOUS 
~by Bogdan Calin (Romania)~ 

A meteor above the Earth. 
A man in the Universe. 
Do you really understand...?  

MOTHER AND 2003
~by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)~
to my mother Steliana Gheorghe (nicknamed Stella),
a part of the soul of the Romanian astropoetry movement

*
"I am very ill," 
my mother said to me at the beginning of the year, 
"and some day I'll go to the heights.
Can you look at the sky to see if it is O.K.?"
*
At first, Quadrantids, Lyrids, Eta Aquarids
and some Sporadic meteors whispering:
"You'll have a month of May
with wonderful celestial flowers.
Make a coronet of brightness for your mother!"
*
May 7th. The transit of Mercury across the Sun 
like a slow and dark meteor in the light. 

May 16th. A lunar eclipse at sunrise. I heard:
"Moon: <It's just an illusion. Eclipsed?
Me, gentlemen, never!>
Dream Echo of the Houses: <People just caressing us!>
Dream Echo of the Trees: <Birds just caressing us!>
Dream Echo of the Lake: <The sky just caressing me!>" 
 
Otherwise, silence. No meteor, no star.
"Echo of the Sun: <Here I am, the light pillar.>"

May 31st. The Sun rising partly eclipsed. I felt:
"The Sun rose without a great thought
(mysteriously called by the Moon)
-the gap was clearly seen in its roundness.
That thought visited our dreams,
and returned, richer, to the whole.
From a mild night, 
people awoke warmer for a moment, 
embarrassed by 
the new impulse of light." 

"What a magnificent peace!"- said my mother,
collecting sunbeams in her long hair.
*
Wings of summer touching the Earth...

July ... A few fireballs 
fluttering like some sky pennants.

August 13th. Lights of Perseid meteors 
enriching my mother's coronet.

August 27th. The greatest opposition of Mars.
("I know from time to time
some planets become closer
for cosmic cultural exchanges,
but, Dear Mars, I am just a simple living man,
too little for jumping to you...
to see meteors from other perspective.")
*
November... 
Yes, it was a new lunar eclipse, but... 

Where are the proud and luminous Sky Lions 
from another time?
They are resting now, replaced by
some hurried Leopards,
for a few decades.
*
"I have to prepare myself for flying in the sky"-
said my mother after all, cutting her crowned hair.

Don't be in a hurry, mother!
Our planet is still so beautiful,
and I need your noble soul
mirroring stars, fireballs and sky phenomena. 

Let's continue to fight for this generous Earth,
and I promise to be careful 
at your collection of bright hair- 
not to become a new meteor shower too soon. 

METEORS 
~by Maria Nutu (Romania)~ 

The night fire stones 
over the stars' eternity.

WHAT A NIGHT
~by Tina Visarian (Romania)~

What a night with a quince taste!
It shakes my thoughts...
I cut the thick darkness
by my look. 
Feeble, the sky torches guide me
through the meteor dream. 

A PERSEID NIGHT 
~by Razvan Ciomartan (Romania)~ 

They came to observe meteors- 
Perseids. 
They stayed in a field, 
throwing their looks to 
Perseus' radiant, 
and bagging it. 
 
"Wooow!"- 
shouted their voices like a chorus 
when the first meteor appeared. 
 
After that, many other 
"Wooows"... 

THE METEOR 
~by Dominic Diamant (Romania)~ 

What an elevating fall! 
What a hallucinating way! 
It's just a meteor dying, 
dipping itself in the cosmic darkness, 
and sowing its own light. 

Does it really matter? 
It lives so little, 
but miraculously shines. 

ECHO-THOUGHTS 
~by Valentin Grigore (Romania)~ 

At twilight, 
the thought takes spring 
to the heights. 

Echo-thoughts from Perseus 
come down... 
Bits of skies 
in the sea of dreams. 

FALL 
~by Aura Cainar (Romania)~ 

Set thoughts in the old canopy. 
Light angels and burning stars 
watching the queen abducted 
from Mother Terra by Hercules. 
A banquet of meteors 
(knights and maidens) 
dancing bewitched by the lyre bird. 
Glass voices heralding happiness. 

The Sun as a tender father 
calling us and smiling: 
"Hey, all of you, come on- 
steal immortality! 
It's autumn in the skies, 
it's autumn in us."  
  
  LEONID HAIKU 
~by Diana Madalina Georgescu (Romania)~ 

It's raining stars. 
Fireballs, pilgrims. 
The Lion is dreaming. 

HAIKU 
~by Tania Tilici (Romania)~ 

I shake and fall down, 
hindered by a meteor 
placed in the sky heart. 

VARIATIONS 
~by Adrian Sima~ 

Motto: In the time passing, 
rely on the Sun 
please...
 
*
The trip begins just now 

a horse 
a swan 
an archer 

the ball games are fascinating 
flowers grow up on the mirrors 
of the telescopes 

the morning comes 
as another piece of glass 
over the look 

but the night bumble bees 
are still meteoring 
on the other side 
of this ignorant sphere... 

LEONID HAIKU 
~by Gelu-Claudiu Radu (Romania)~ 
 
I'm a meteor 
a king of the late autumn 
the last Leonid 

(recited at IMC 2003, Bollmannsruh, Germany) 

FEWER WORDS
~by Dan Mitrut (Romania)~

I never saw so much suffering,
So many bullets towards Noah's Ark,
Stars scattered in the neighbouring gods' courtyards.
I'm climbing cosmic Golgotha,
Sisyphus's feet are winging me on,
And he is crying, forgotten on a blue disc.
"They hoaxed me," he told me among his tears, 
"My rock was a comet <scratching the Sun>,
I would have wanted to throw it to fly..."

I never saw so much suffering,
People breaking their soles
Not to trample on the cinders of the lights
Fallen from Heaven.  

(All English translations from the Romanian were made by Andrei 
Dorian Gheorghe)



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