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Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (136) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 03-18-2022 05:03

  
Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (136):
Twin Brothers
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Mid-February 2021.
One morning I saw something like two twin suns.
In fact, only the Sun and his reflection.
But I began to think of the constellation Gemini and dedicated the following haiku to it:

Yes M Thirty Five,
yes Medusa Nebula,
yes the Twins alive!

In Greek astromythology, the twin brothers Castor and Pollux were the symbol athletes before they become the main stars in the constellation Gemini.
In Romanian astromythology, the two stars are named after the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.
To highlight the related origin of the Romans and the Romanians, in 1906 the city of Rome sent to the city of Bucharest a statue with the she-wolf who helped these brothers grow.
Today the statue is placed on the main boulevard in Bucharest. 
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In the sky, Pollux is (a little) brighter than Castor.
On Earth, Romulus was better than Remus and became the first king of Rome.

Castor and Pollux -
some of the twin brothers are
more twins than others
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#poetry
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