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Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (39) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12-18-2021 03:51

  
Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (39):
Astroproverbs in Verse
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design) 
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On September 17, 2021
the Sun showed me another way to enter Bucharest’s historic center through the south.
I had my new book, “Not Everything that Flies is a Comet - Astroproverbs in Verse”, and took a picture with it near the building where the Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu had been a political and social journalist. Then I launched my book in a group of old friends (Zoly, Dragos-“Pepsi”, “Engineer Sache” and Mishu “Joy”), on a terrace. 
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After sunrise, the Moon (who has no atmosphere of its own) felt a strong attraction to the merry atmosphere of our table and came closer to us to participate in our meeting as well. 
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But what is an astroproverb in verse?
An astronomical adaptation of a classical proverb, or an astronomical proverb in itself.
It involves four verses of which at least two are rhymed, and this makes it difficult to translate into another language, but its cadence is freer than that of an epigram or a quatrain.
In recent years, at national astronomical events, I recited many of my astroproverbs, which delighted the audience. Here is an example from my book, “Not Everything that Flies is a Comet - Astroproverbs in Verse”, Astromix Publishing House (editor: Dan-George Uza), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2021:

Astronomy has changed,
“Eppur si muove” said Galileo.
But what good is it to me?
I was just tanning on Albireo!
#poetry
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