Nature Has the Upper Hand Volcanoes can engulf the land in avalanching lava blaze entombing picturesque Pompeiis, for Nature has the upper hand. Tsunamis raze an earthly strand disrupting lives that cling to breath in e’er untimely mortal death, for Nature has the...
Close Cosmic Encounter A barred spiral galaxy in the Giraffe has one of the arms curled in front of its core where dust laden lanes in the grouping outpour as Hubble has shown it for earthlings’ behalf. Some sort of encounter perhaps came along for bent NGC Two One Four...
Remember Bob Eklund By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe More memories and a marvelous memory… Astropoetry events, astropoetry… In March 2010 Mick Simmons and Bob Eklund called me to help with my experience the new created Astropoetry Blog and the development of astropoetry in Astronomers...
TRIBUTE TO BOB EKLUND (1998-2021) Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design) (Author’s note: I took the pictures below in August 2021) As an astro-haiku expert, he founded the Astropoetry Blog when he was 82 years old, becoming a world leader...
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Image details: The Moon Credit: © 2012 Mirosław Wójcik THE MOON GLOW in memory of Bob Eklund It is sad news that in the recent days, Bob has heard - paraphrasing Harley's White words - "the cosmos call". Nevertheless, I think he can now experience this amazing,...
This Insubstantial Pageant Upon our stage we romp and rage in Goldilocks’s golden cage amongst colossal cosmic crowd with spark of liveliness endowed of pomp and circumstantial fate, whose worth we underestimate, in constant discontentment caught ‘and sicklied o’er...
Bob Eklund will always be remembered as a beloved mentor and friend to all of the poets found in our AstroPoetry blog. He was always available to help a poet with their work and provided kind and heartfelt feedback for all. As an Amateur Astronomer, Bob motivated others to become more involved...
In memory of Bob Eklund, I am again posting my pantoum “Cosmic Calling”. In our correspondence, he told me the poem was a favorite of his. So I am presenting it here as an homage to Bob, the creator of the Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) AstroPoetry Blog. Bob Eklund was my original Stellar...
Tugging Triplet Galaxie s Far from terrestrial fighting and fears by Hubble spied in Lynx constellation, over seven hundred million light-years beyond our orbit of habitation, a scene from theatrical cosmic play appears to be showing on giant stage of triple galactic...
ROCKS' RUN T hey often say us that only we live in a constant rush Meanwhile, high above mundanity of man's matters, another peculiar run takes place Very spectacular but much more temporal than seems to be our presence The rocks from outer space * simply try to reach the planet...
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