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A FESTIVE ASTROPOETRY ANTHOLOGY OF SARM 

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

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At the end of the 30th year of activity of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM), I wanted to create and translate into English the most impressive (mini)anthology of astropoetry in the history of over 13 years of AWB blogs, a festive one for which I invited the best astropoets (still dedicated) in the history of SARM. 

Here it is! 

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NEITHER ASTRO-TERCET NOR ASTRO-HAIKU 

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe 

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Beyond any kind of glory 

every binary star system 

is a love story! 

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THE NOBLE STEPS OF ASTROPOETRY 

By Boris Marian (Mehr) 

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In our world full of surprises, 

fanaticisms and schisms, 

we turn our gaze to the stars 

always unheard in the blue horizons, 

and we remember, with friendship, 

the noble steps of astropoetry. 

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The planets always warn us 

that each of their whispers is a story, 

that it once was, 

maybe it wouldn't be, 

and yet a poet will tell it 

to you and me. 

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THE ASTRONOMER 

By Victor Chifelea 

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When the toilers of the day seek their rest 

and the silver lily on the vault rises, 

he remains alone with his magic wand 

aiming at the distant abyss. 

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But in his meticulous research, 

he finds entangled rays of light 

that depict winding paths 

to alluring space spices. 

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And, who knows, maybe tomorrow

this will be the path on which 

those who are now lying exhausted at night 

must boldly embark on a multi-millennial journey. 

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GRAVITATIONAL NAUGHTINESS 

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe 

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When I fell, not very well, 

with my carrier comet 

to a giant planet, 

I shouted to the last one: 

“Have you no shame? 

Why did you hit me 

with your gravity?” 

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HAARP 

By Tit Tihon 

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The moon shines 

over the HAARP spider 

in the laboratory. 

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Relative time has been bent 

into an hourglass of the future 

or over the infinity of the past. 

It's a clone of matter consciousness. 

Somewhere among the revered stars 

Artificial Intelligence spawns 

the realm beyond Sirius 

for the Dogon Nommos of the water. 

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HAARP has unfrozen at the poles 

lighting up continents 

with auroras that vibrate in color 

through simulated resonances.

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THE LOVE OF A PERIODIC COMET 

By Danut Ionescu 

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A comet close to the Sun 

is a ball of fire. 

A comet far from the Sun 

is a lump of ice. 

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I am the comet 

and you are my Sun! 

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LEONIDS 

By Valentin Grigore 

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On November 13, 1833, the Americans estimated about 20 meteors per second, about 72,000 meteors per hour and about 240,000 meteors in 9 hours of intense activity. 

The Leonid current also generated other impressive meteor storms. 

On the night of the Leonid maximum in 1866, Europeans counted hundreds of meteors per minute and thousands per hour. 

At the Leonid maximum in 1966, the hourly rate was 100,000 meteors in a 40-minute storm. 

On November 16/17, 1998, the Leonids provided an unexpected shower of fireballs, of which I recorded more than 300 in 6 hours of observations, often outshining the Moon in brightness and generating light trails visible for more than 20 minutes with the naked eye. 

In 1999 and 2001, about 4,000-5,000 Leonid meteors were seen per hour. 

Although theoretically far fewer Leonids are seen in the 33-year periods between when the Tempel-Tuttle parent comet returns to perihelion, surprises can still happen. 

Unfortunately, astronomers believe that the next storm will not be recorded during the next perihelion passes of this comet (2031 and 2063), but only in 2099. 

But even if the Leonid activity is announced to be small, it should never be missed. 

The Leonid meteors are so spectacular that I'd rather see 10 Leonids than 100 Perseids! 

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THE NEW EARTH 

By Gelu Claudiu Radu 

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A new exoplanet 

has been discovered. 

I'll call it Earth. 

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FACTS OF THE EVENING 

By Dan Mitrut

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The moon sheds upon men's eyes 

the light of the old song 

in which Old Saturn refuses 

to devour his children. 

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And so Apollo ended up 

a poor sweeper 

on the streets of the galaxy. 

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Aselenization? No way. 

What name to bear? 

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On the unseen face of the Sun's sister, 

Lucifer greedily admires 

his new field of melons. 

The crickets can be heard up to him: 

It's autumn on Earth, he smiled. 

Where would Athena be wandering? 

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JUPITER 

By Zigmund Tauberg 

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It is Jupiter, the stormy planet, 

the largest in volume and mass 

in the kingdom of the Sun. 

Its gravity is terribly great, 

attracting, perhaps you want to know, 

about eighty satellites around. 

Rocks, remnants of planets, 

meteors, comets and various others, 

come from the cosmos towards us many times. 

In the absence of Jupiter,

many of them would hit everything in their path 

and there would be a destructive hell, 

but it swallows some and absorbs others. 

Even Earth would be in danger 

of having its atmosphere destroyed 

and left without life. 

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Such dangers have been there from the beginning, 

but great planets have stood in the way 

of the perils from the ether… 

as defensive shields, and one of the main dams 

is the planet Jupiter! 

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COLLAGE OF LEAVES FROM AN ASTRAL LOVE 

By Alec Bartos 

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Cosmos chopper, 

walking stars, 

I'm desperate and available 

on promotion for you… 

As your flea, I give you a poem, 

a gift from my pen… 

So small, I would like to reach you 

and my jump should not be lead... 

Love me deeply, now

you have a chance like an ephemeris, 

I'm completely fresh for you, 

a blameless idiot... 

And if you let me, I'll peck you, 

Cassiopeia! 

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ASTRO-HAIKU 

By Alex Vizitiu 

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Stars in the sky, 

the mysterious Universe, 

endless night. 

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THE BIG BANG OF LOVE 

(version 2023) 

By Dominic Diamant 

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When I wonder in vain 

how long I will be able to endure 

the chaotic bombardment of all events, 

when I feel more and more 

death in the fever of every cell 

devastating my loneliness, 

why would I postpone the outpouring 

from my burning fibers of 

the subtle, deep imperishable essence of life? 

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Why would I spare you, intimidated, 

from the Big Bang of love? 

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THE CHALLENGE OF THE DECADE 

By Ion(ut) Moraru 

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With the James Webb Space Telescope we played and took risks. 

We began to analyze the atmospheric signature of observable exoplanets where water is liquid, on rocky worlds, near brown dwarfs, small and less bright than our sun. 

Next, we studied the Trappist-1 system, the current favorite of astronomers, with Earth-like planets that show the same face to their star, a red dwarf rich in devastating eruptions. 

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JWST is looking for life in water vapor, atmospheric methane, 

and researchers are studying hardy Earth bacteria 

such as those at the bottom of the oceans, ready for Enceladus, 

or others that hibernate in deserts and would suit… 

a better life on Mars! 

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COMET 12P/PONS-BROOKS 

(a meditation in November 2023) 

By Adrian Bruno Sonka 

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Comet 12P is a poor man's Halley 

because it has a period as long as a human lifetime, 

but it is not visible to the naked eye.

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THE HOURGLASS 

By Adrian Sima 

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Gravity is like a master bird 

that divides the hourglass in two: 

up - the past 

like a sky of sand with shooting stars - 

and down - the mountain of the future 

like a desert of expectations... 

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In the middle is the present hidden 

in the ever-shrinking circle of glass 

hot over daylight, 

as the freshest orbit of a memory 

holds in its embrace the star of childhood, 

but looking from afar... 

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The past, the present and the future 

are seen simultaneously 

like the dream of a dusty amphora, 

whispering in the clay 

from the potter's palms.

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NEITHER ASTRO-HAIKU NOR ASTRO-TERCET 

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe 

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Astral variations 

for eternity: 

nebula, star cluster, galaxy...

#poetry