METEOR CONTEMPORARY POETRY PROJECT (8)

In this issue:
I. METEOR TIME
II. "PERSEIDS 2006" CAMP
III. ASTROPOETRY AT IMC 2006
IV. OTHER METEOR POEMS
V. END OF THE YEAR

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

The next issue, for which we wait for submissions,
will appear at the summer solstice 2007.
- Coordinators: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(adgsarm@...), Alastair McBeath
(meteor@...), Valentin Grigore
(vali_sarm@...) -

"I wish you clear skies full of bright stars and
unique meteors - windows to salvation and knowledge."
-Ruxandra Toma (Romania)-

I. METEOR TIME - ROMANIAN LINES

HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-

children invading
the starry pumpkin
meteors, fireballs

TO THE EDGES
-by Adrian Sima-

wing knotted by another wing
knotted by another wing
to the edges

climbing over feathers
climbing ways of space

arriving near the well
with a bird's dimensions

gulping meteors in a hurry

time's thirst cannot be stopped

SCENERY BROKEN IN THE
FLOATING BED CLOTHES OF THE NIGHT
-by Miruna Muresanu-

arms like burning pyres
looking for the attire of my fear
burying me in accords of sky clay
in a humble ceremony
and learning the rhythm of death
in the game of the flummoxed seconds

HAIKU
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

reversible time
ex-old meteoroid
new young meteor

2005 JANUARY 5/6
-by Alexandru Tudorica-

I tried a Messier marathon night, observing 109 deep
sky objects.
Through the same Dobsonian telescope, I also saw a few
small meteors: one of +10 magnitude, and a group of
three others.
I've remarked that, fortunately, skill doesn't
diminish with time's passing.
(It is like going by bicycle, perhaps even through
space.)

TOMORROW
-by Ion Moraru-

"Mother, is that
a meteor?" "Never!
There are only airplanes!"

II. "PERSEIDS 2006" CAMP OF THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY FOR
METEORS AND ASTRONOMY-SARM, XIV-TH EDITION,
CRASNA-COVASNA
-ASTROPOETRY GALA SELECTION-

"We find ourselves again under the Perseid shine,
learning every time to look inside us, to that place
yearning for more: the sky light, which means, beyond
the astronomical theories, even life!"
-Valentin Grigore-

FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE PERSEIDS
-haiku series by Dominic Diamant-

You don't imagine
how many wonders we miss
by ignoring ourselves

Who shattered
the primordial ball?
Now we suffer

We like or not
our place in the Cosmos
these ones we are

How could I forget
good Stephen Hawking?
It's unpardonable

Create to defeat
the misery.
This is the technique

To voyage
in the Celestial Garden
if you have breath

Where does
the pulsar's magic hide?
Could you answer?

Who penetrates
the quasar's mystery
just from its waves?

Do not be sad
when a comet disappears.
Another one follows

How is it possible to shoot
a heavenly body?
This idea hurts me

My wish
was not incidental
falling star

A rain of stars
enlightening the sky.
Perseus is playing.

ASTRAL SALUTE
-by Florian Severin-

Hi Mizar! I start amazed
Bowing to you, zenith,
And flying in a hurry to the Perseids -
Ancestral placenta!

I start to bless my soul
In the temple of the celestial gods
I start to meet my brothers
Under the solar beams

Hi Alcor! Hi Mizar!
The sense of life is not fruitless
I am a lucky man, caressed
By stars

HAIKU
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

new Perseid hopes -
our lives look for a
better ZHR

-(performed also at the International Meteor
Conference 2006)-

"PERSEIDS" CAMP
-by Andreea Nanciu-

1. Rainbow

Among the green tree branches,
a yellow beam lightens my face.
It is so fine!
I hear people laughing,
I feel joy in the air.

My gaze climbing,
I see the green of the grass
fusing into the fluffy white of the clouds
that call you to admire them,
floating in the pure blue of the sky.

To the valley, I see the red roofs
of the silent chalets,
and the scent of the mauve flowers
delights our feelings.

This is the rainbow of the "Perseids" camp!

2. Perseid

I began to climb from the strange darkness
and, passing over the clouds,
I drove away my fear.
An invisible hand guided me to him.

I needed to know him in all his splendour,
I hoped to remain awake to touch him,
to learn from him to fly
as mysterious as him,
dressing his hypnotic colour,
to travel near stars,
to fulfill my wish of celestial knowledge
from him - the enigmatic meteor.

AT "PERSEIDS"
-by Diana Maria Ogescu-

The light of the Perseids
from the sources of the sky

Us, the astronomers -
comprehension in the silence
before dawn

WAITING FOR THE PERSEIDS
-by Catalina Mitrut-

1
I want to see her again
after I lost light years nowhere.
She fills my nights with dreaminess
to eternity.
However, I ask myself:
Why did she not leave me?
I coveted her brightness
and she did not disappoint me.
I dreamed of her and when I saw her
she smiled to me.
She is unique-
Cassiopeia.

2
Hidden after a star corner,
I sent the moon to sleep,
I covered the clouds
with the clarity of the sky,
I folded the fog
by sprinkling galaxies,
only for you, waiting for you.
A sea of people waits for your rain,
for the brightness of your darkness.
Give me the key to open
the mystery of your name,
and today I shall call you
Fireball.

PERSEID HAIKU
-by Zigmund Tauberg-

it's raining stones
incandescent hail
of meteors

PERSEID FALLS
-by Cristina Slovineanu-

The regretted sunset of a long split
strikes a spark in the night.
We run, finding a paradise
which comes and brings
strange stars in the memory.

Then, lost in time, we receive
twinkles of the galaxy.

AFTER METEORS
-by Iulia Ogescu (age 12)-

With heads in clouds
After meteors
We see Perseids
Wanting to come down
From the great canopy
To the small Earth
To know people
To meet children
To bring into the world
Their good news

HAIKU
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

Perseus' sword
celestial sparks
Andromeda's joy

-(performed also at the International Meteor
Conference 2006)-

"PERSEIDS" NIGHT
-by Carmen Alexandra Dira (age 15)-

Sunset. The darkness advances over nature.
I watch the stars appearing
and enriching the sky with their lights.

Silence advances too,
soon we shall hear only
songs of night birds
and murmurs of mountain rivulets.

Meteors begin to fall one after the other,
Leaving impressive trails.
But they pass too fast,
like hurried travellers,
like us passing through life.

Nothing is eternal, so I think:
we should live every moment
like the last one,
being careful of
the wonderful things close to us,
and admiring nature, stars, clouds
and phenomena
on Earth, in Water, in the Sky.

DEAR ASTRONOMER
-by Loredana Diana Niculae-

It is pink, obedient, nice,
my falling star
inspiring the fluffy summer.

Or, it is black, furious, useless,
drowning step by step the white.

But, maybe it is green, dreamy, magic,
spelling the waves with caresses.

Or, it is red and bloody,
and blood is wine,
and if you drink that wine,
you come back in time
to that flame
when we began to play
the Great Game.

A METEOR FALLEN IN LOVE
-by Doina Chilargi-

There was a crazy, incandescent meteor
who roved among celestial abysses,
carried by love.
But he didn't find his target,
and, too hot with enthusiasm,
disintegrated himself on his road.

Moral:
Do not fly after love
If you are not a dove.

AT "PERSEIDS"
-by Alexandra Iliescu (age 14)-

The soil is cold.
The dew freezes on blades of grass.
Although it's dark, I see a cricket.
A star appears
And the chill passes,
The time passes.
Now golden drops are covering the sky
Someone somehow shook a paintbrush
And coloured the high ink spot

A meteor appears
Like a man's life
Short, hurried,
But luminous and beautiful.

HAIKU
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

Perseid meteor
traversing Pegasus -
bestial magnitude

-(performed also at the International Meteor
Conference 2006)-

III. METEOR POETRY AT THE INTERNATIONAL METEOR
CONFERENCE 2006, RODEN (HOLLAND)

"What would the IMC be
without astropoetry?"
-Marc Gyssens (Belgium); words said in the end of the
2005 Astroshow of poetry-

"Here we are again my friends,
It's such a pity this must end
I've been waiting all the year
But now I'm too hung over to care..."
-Jonathan McAullife (Ireland), from The Song of the
IMC 2006-

EARTH
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-

the Earth is not only
the generous planet where I live,
the Earth was a great fireball
and now is my favourite
meteorite.

HAIKU
-by Paul Roggemans (Belgium)-

Out of nothingness,
a beautiful shooting star
brings us happiness.

HAIKU
-by Jeremie Vaubaillon (France)-

Perseids,
You hide in the mountains
Like the stars in the city lights

IN DEBT
-by Valentin Grigore (Romania)-

Observing meteor showers,
We understand we received
Life, Earth and Sky,
So we are in debt to give light around us.
Because we live with our feet on Earth,
But we are included in the Sky.
And the Sky begins from the Earth.

METEOR HAIKU
-by Nagatoshi Nogami (Japan)-

Every one shoot
forms a trail
just only one chance

Just for a moment
one shoot attracted me
for a few decades

Meteor tour in the future
from the space ship
look down the shower

A  MOMENT  IN  THE  FUTURE -
TO  BE  AVOIDED
-A word-play written and performed by Dr. Geoffrey
Grayer (U.K.) at IMC-2006, Roden, The Netherlands-

After many aeons, from afar,
Fell to Earth a shooting star.
The sky was clear, the Moon shone bright,
All below was bathed in light;
(T'was not a good observing night.)

As she fell to her destruction
She screamed aloud to all this question:
(For surely it is a bad sensation
To end existence by ablation!)

"Oh where the Heck has Holland gone?
For many there had such fun.
The tulip fields, and Edam cheese,
And Rice-Tafel; they all did please.
Van Eyke, Van Dyke, Van Gogh
In fact, the whole Van lot
The finest paintings in creation
Lost in one final inundation;
Now all that's left that man can see
They call it now the Zuider Zee!

And London, too, it's under water -
They loved so much its Soho quarteeeer ......!"

The Moon replied (too late I fear
For this poor meteor to hear):
"It's part my fault, I make the tides
With the Sun, whose heat provides
The other ingredient in this mix -
But most of all, its all those Dicks
Who burn the forests, cut the trees,
And all those greenhouse gases release.

The boy, whose finger in a dyke
Once saved this realm from watery plight
Is now a man, but his fingers still
Were not large enough the holes to fill.
And clogs, wood shoes shaped like a boat
Nevertheless, they do not float.
It was all due to global warming -
Those folk on Earth didn't heed the warning!"

A SPECK OF DUST
-Peter Jenniskens (Holland / U.S.A), guest of honour
in the Astroshow-

A speck of dust,
as in the dawn of time,
bringing the building blocks of life,
a meteor's light falls on us,
so that man can stand tall
and, spread out on four legs,
sense we live among galaxies.

IV. OTHER METEOR POEMS

HOW ARE THE METEORS IN M31 (ANDROMEDA)?
-by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania)-

Sidereal spot,
Giant stellar system,
Sister-galaxy of the Milky Way.
Gigantic spiral,
Immense carousel
Always rotating around its dense nucleus.
But, looking at it,
We see images from the past,
When, on Earth,
Humanity was in the beginning,
Or people did not exist yet.

And now we have a question. Thus:

Are thoughtful beings there? And, if so,
Are they interested in studying the Universe?
Do they watch the Milky Way
And think the same things as us?

TWO HAIKU
-by Steve Sneyd (U.K.)-

ON THE WAY TO THE FINAL CAVERN

Neave's eyes reflect two
falling stars. Merlin cries old
tears for both endings.

WITH MERLIN GONE, NOT HIS KNOWING

Meteorite pendant
Neave's fine neck wears will fly her
up sky now she dreams

FROM FAR AWAY
-by Dan Mitrut (Romania)-

who am I
to move with my breath
the curtain of this silver night

when no man creates infinity
when each falling star has a soul

I am the tailor of a living twilight

another day...
the planet circles with wishes
from the Dolphin to the Fishes

ADVISE
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-

Be careful at
your own earthly deeds,
the meteors could be
artificial satellites
made by the sky.

SPRING METEORS
-by Dominic Diamant (Romania)-

sidereal concert
under orpheus' wand
lyrids

sidereal archer
hunting particles
sagittarids

I SHALL BE A FALLING STAR
-by Florian Saioc (Romania)-

I shall be gone with my world
but the road has a price
so I shall pay it with a star

this road is a mystery
but on it I cannot die
as long as I have an account
opened in the sky

METEOR IMAGES FROM MY POEMS
COMPOSED IN COMMUNIST POLITICAL PRISONS (6)
1955, DEJ. (ETA AQUARIDS)
-by Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator (Romania)-

After the rain, a patch of sky drying,
A grain of hope loading the destiny,
A harp calmly singing in poplar tree rustle.
Tears of stars dropping one after the other,
Bis after bis -
A May night with a hot kiss.

ON A LONELY BEACH
-by Nimal Dunuhinga (Sri Lanka)-

My daydream is to walk one day
hand-in-hand with a meteor lover girl
on a lonely beach.

But I am scared
if she asks me to remove the shoes
for convenience.

CLEAR NIGHT
-by Diana Diaconu (Romania)-

Many people run out of the darkness. Some people look
for it.
Many people are scared of the night silence. Some
people need it.
For many people, every night is something usual. For
some people, every night is a new world invading space
and time.
For many people, the sky is all night long the same.
For some people, every night the sky tells a story
with stars, planets and meteors, and from normal
people they become prisoners of the gods, heroes and
creatures of the legends; but when they try to
understand the enigmas, the Sun begins to rise, and
all becomes the memory of a clear night.

METEOR HAIKU
-by Iulian Olaru (Romania)-

eyes of child
seeing thoughts of the leaves
coming from the stars

THE GIANT OF THE SCORPION
-by Zigmund Tauberg (Romania)-

There is a constellation with minor meteors,
but dominated by a bright star, a giant body,
much bigger than other stars.
What kind of thing could resist
that colossal attraction?
How many bodies
were gulped by it?
Comparing it with the Sun
(that sustains our lives),
our star is a few hundred times smaller.
And with Antares replacing the Sun,
we would have a ceiling at midday,
the atmosphere would not be blue,
the terrible warmth would destroy all,
and, more, even the Earth
would be assimilated.

But let Antares be there,
because I would never leave
our sky with meteors so fine,
and I would not give
our beloved Sun for any other star,
however bright or however great,
however close or however far.

BRAVERY
-by Arnold Leinweber (Romania)-

My thought was a comet
Flying in the Cosmos,
Passing through the zodiac,
Finding a lot of things,
Leaving shines after me
And noting many heavenly bodies.

But, finally,
Just a tired rover:
I left my orbit, and bought
A place on Terra
As a meteoritic thought.

DURING THE CYGNID TIME
-by Alexandrina Zuza (Romania)-

Let me be Deneb,
an immortal star
comprising thousands of rays
in its shine.

Let me be a part
of that fine celestial swan,
to fulfill my wish,
to own both the Earth
and the Being.

FLORIDIAN PERSEIDS
-by Emily Gaskin (U.S.A.)-

The Perseids are usually a poor show in Tallahassee on
account of the rainy weather, though I still try every
year. (Alas, travel is difficult for me.) I was
probably twelve years old, watching the shower alone
in my backyard, when I saw the most Perseids, and even
then it was only 13 for the entire night. I easily
counted more mosquito bites than meteors. One year my
father took pity on me, and we went on a short trip to
find a better location, but even then, improbably, we
were plagued by fog.
My father suggested that maybe I was cursed and should
consider something other than the visible spectrum. He
then helped me build a small radio telescope, which I
briefly enjoyed until it was destroyed by an
automobile.
So you see, I believe the universe likes to play
little jokes on me. Fortunately for me, astropoetry is
ruined neither by thunderstorm nor collisions.

EDGELY VISION
-by Boris Marian (Romania)-

You guess, from the flight of the stars,
the largeness of space,
with Twin Brothers, a Bull, Fishes,
but you don't guess what
Herr Simplicity says.

If you don't fly, you need an angstrom
not to fall from your balcony
into the infinite, to Father Moebius.

Down there, a passer-by named Dos Passos
shouts: <"Lauda" buries us.>

In the sky, a point burned aware,
and the Cosmos became a square.

1803, FRANCE
-by Michaela Al. Orescu (Romania)-

near Alancon
explosion of fireball
and rain of stones

TO STEFAN (NELU) TUDOR
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-

My favourite cousin
used to offer me wonderful vacations
taking me by boat
on the Danube River
among joyous fishes, various ships
and surprising waves.

"I have a fire in me,"
one day he said,
"let's write a story
as striking as this river."

Unfortunately,
we did not have time for it,
he died too young,
but after, I understood:

we had already composed a story
in which God called my cousin
in the heavens
because he was a striking fireball
and the Danube River was his train.

GREETINGS FROM AUSTRIA,
THE HOME OF MAIN MASS
-by Stefan Brandes (Austria)-

I'm looking for little stones
like I'm to be that Indi Jones.
Not finding any real ET
I'm searching hard to convince me,
they're out there somewhere, neat and fine
these little stones from Neuschwanstein.

-(first published in the "meteorite-list")-

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HAIKU
-by Tina Visarian (Romania)-

Celestial steps without shadows -
we forgot meteors in a corner
driving away the gift of light

AWAKENED BY ORIONIDS
-a haiku story by Dominic Diamant (Romania)-

Who knows
the destinies of constellations
and stars?

One night,
awakened by Orionid meteors,
I saw the star hunter.

"Do you sell
your belt, Orion?"
"No, you can take it for nothing."

Pleasantly surprised, I said:
"The treasure is yours.
Please keep it. Thanks."

WHITE ARROW
-by Irina Cristescu (Romania)-

Meteor -
fine sand of dreams
white foam of hope
in chameleonic sky

The meteor of my life fell
into an unknown abyss
of light and paradise
piercing the ephemeral

In fact, I lived vainly
the meteor of my life
was a fireball without hope

ONCE UPON A TIME
-by Maxim Matvei (the Moldavian Republic)-

There was a meteor in the Universe;
some saw it like an angel,
but others extracted it
like an engineer lost in the infinite.

HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant (Romania)-

Divine sprites
flashing in celestial waters -
the Leonids

LEONID 18TH NOVEMBER 2006
-by David M. Turner (U.K.)-

I do not know what woke me
In the witching hours
Of the long November night.
No noise could be heard
Over the still, quiet
Cold
Settling upon the long pre-morning,
Yet my dog
Growled
Quietly deep into his belly
And his hackles rose menacingly.
Opening the door
The almost frosted air
Rushed in
And the dog rushed out
Only to stand confused by the lack of threat.
The stars were bright.
Bold Orion strode
Centre stage
Across the pantheon of gods,
His sword hanging ready
From his great belt
Studded with three, fire-filled diamonds.
Saturn, low and luminescent,
Watched from the far South
As Orion continued
His eternal pursuit
Of the Great Bear
That was
Padding across the sky
Far to the North.
Silence and cold
And the unending drama of the constellations
All seemed expectant -
Then
I saw an angel fall from heaven!
He slipped high in the East
Beginning a long descent
From his place at Saturn's right hand
To the miserable cold of this Earthly Hell.
I watched his fiery fall
In amazement.
His sudden nemesis
Seemed to last for long minutes,
At first searing a glittering vertical
Into high heaven,
Then, as his end neared,
Burning brighter and brighter,
Till, low above the
Dawn expectant sky
A final burst of spent and sparkling spirit
Briefly lit the watching, wondering night.

GEMINID FIREBALL 2006
-by Valentin Grigore (Romania)-

A -10 magnitude emotion
flashing my face and all around
with a strong blue light,
and leaving a train like a lance
sketching the pirouettes
of a short celestial life
in the colours of the spectrum.

V. END OF THE YEAR

THE STAR OF THE KINGS
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (Romania)-

A new hypothesis says
the Star of the Kings was a giant fireball.

Following all the hypotheses
and blending them,
sometimes I imagine that
the Star of the Kings was a heavenly body
with magical powers of transformation,
becoming a supernova,
becoming Comet Halley,
becoming three Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions,
becoming a Venus-Jupiter conjunction
supervised by the star Regulus,
becoming a fireball...

and making me wish all of you
from every winter solstice:

"HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

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OTHER METEOR POETRY LINKS
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.htm\
l

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)
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   Targoviste 130016, Dambovita, Romania
phone: +40 245 213851, +40 0722829034 (gsm)
e-mail: vali_sarm@..., vali.grigore@...
http://www.sarm.ro
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