SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (4)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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The silence of the total solar eclipse
can be heard louder than the music of people,
it is perhaps the true celestial music.
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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Today I will conclude the commemoration of 25 years since SARM's great EuRoEclipse Perseids 1999 event by mentioning that at its international cosmopoetry festival there were also poetic-musical moments with guitar accompaniment (astrofolk music).
I have chosen below three poetical fragments about the total eclipse of the Sun composed by three amateur astronomers, composers, poets and photographers - important members of SARM -, the first having an astromythological touch, the second being a haiku from an entire cycle, and the third a fragment of a surrealist astropoem:
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A smoky night
spreads over the world.
Without the Sun,
the solar system is a crazy monster.
“The armour stays proud on my chest,
and I’m going to save the Sun.”
A rumour comes from Lacerta
that the Sun is alive,
nailed in comets
by the desert dragon.
“The armour stays proud on my chest,
and I’m going to save the Sun.”
(Dan Mitrut)
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The Sun and the Moon,
caught by a celestial ring dance,
put on fire our souls
(Iulian Olaru)
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The light passed through me
like the ghost of a soldier…
and now, on the walls of the fortress,
the nights seem to be
dusty pages
from the diary
of the shot eclipse
(Adrian Sima)
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You can also view three web pages with the full texts of these authors, accompanied by their guitars and astrophotographs:
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http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/classicsofsarm/pag_7.html
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http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/classicsofsarm/pag_8.html
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http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/classicsofsarm/pag_9.html
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