Comets, comets…
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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A mini-anthology of short astropoetry by SARM
(English translations by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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Syllables in a poem -
comets hoping to plunge
onto a star
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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I dreamed that I had a comet in my bed…
I had been looking for her in the sky
for so many nights
and now I can no longer enjoy her,
I want another one,
or even her (why not?)
from the beginning,
from the times when
she could not be telescoped.
(Alec Bartos)
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Comet Halley has an orbital period
of over 70 years.
Comet Hyakutake has an orbital period
of over 70,000 years.
I prefer the second one.
Living on it
I would avoid the noise pollution
of large terrestrial cities
for a longer time.
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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Maps of deep void -
unknown silence pulsates
in the abyss
(Alex Vizitiu)
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Tailed star,
no matter how beautiful you are!
Until I register you
and give you a name,
you are just a dangerous visitor
in my sky.
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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It's not my fault,
that's what the comets taught me,
now they are good and discovered,
even decent and...
no one loves them anymore!
(Alec Bartos)
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In a world full of rockets,
the sky becomes more and more strange,
and if you want to watch comets,
the satellite trails come to derange.
(Adrian Bruno Sonka)
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Comet Swift-Tuttle got angry with me:
“Why do you count
my Perseid meteors every year?”
I replied:
“Because you never made
your wealth declaration
public!”
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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If the comet would let me discover it
from the beginning,
I would no longer regret the lost nights,
addicted to searching,
unsatisfied with success.
(Alec Bartos)
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My star in my dream,
finite waiting
in comfortable caress.
(Constantin Kapitza)
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Do not confuse Comet Halley
with Hale-Bopp
and do not
rhyme them with McNaught!
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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Excuse me,
I'll leave everything for next time,
now one of the small comets is crying,
the Milky Way is not enough for it
or a black hole is hurting it.
(Alec Bartos)
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Tailed stars teach us
a lot of things,
even to become wiser
than Comet NEOWISE!
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
#poetry