Cosmopoetry Superlatives 2022 (1):
Astropoetry - High School Students
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Valentin Grigore (president) and the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) organized 3 major astronomical camps in Runcu Stone (Dambovita County) during 2022: Spring Stars (for Global Astronomy Month 2022) in April, Perseids in July-August and ASTRO in October with the participation of many young people from all the provinces of Romania.
During these camps I coordinated several cosmopoetry shows, from which SARM chose the best astropoem written by a high school student (an 18-year-old girl from Targoviste) in 2022, which I reproduce below (ambitious, she wanted the English translation from Romanian to belong to her):
Beneath Saturn's Crown
By Bianca Alexandra Necula
Forced to look at you
It is hard not to sense you
For I am an astronomer
And you, my night sky.
You are the Milky Way,
Bright cluster;
You're the dazzling path
Which Cygnus follows in its flight.
I am the Universe!
I'm galaxies,
I'm chaos, lit up by stardust;
I am the Void, terrible and beautiful.
I am myself for there isn't only you.
Divinity, heavenly paradise,
The stars gaze at us, tenderly;
They die and are reborn,
The show that goes on for infinity.
Beneath Saturn's crown
Who offers us his rings,
You declare your love, profoundly,
I look at you, flushed as a red dwarf.
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