Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (22):
Talking to Mihai Eminescu
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On September 10, 2021
I was in the historical centre of Bucharest and caught the sunset with a thin solar halo near the Church of Saint Anthony the Great.
(Made around 1550 by Prince Mircea the Shepherd, this church was the place of the coronation of the Romanian rulers for centuries.)
I then met three teenage friends and we spent a few hours on a terrace opposite the oldest cafe in Bucharest (made around 1780) and the block (with a commemorative plaque) where the Romanian national poet, Mihai Eminescu, worked as a journalist in the 19th century.
(This great poet of the Cosmos is called the “Luceafarul of Romanian poetry” - “Luceafarul” signifying “the brightest star” in Romanian folklore.)
I tried to talk to the national poet there, but he did not answer me, so I drank a few glasses of wine with “Engineer Sache”, “Mishu Vesely” (Mr. Joy) and “Zoly”.
And yet in the end
Mihai Eminescu appeared next to the old cafe
disguised as the brightest star-like object at that time,
the planet Jupiter.
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