Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (51):
Return to a Hypothesis
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
I could be great or
nothing in your infinite
kingdom, Universe!
On January 19, 2022
a strange picture which I took in a park (where I thought I could grab the Moon) made me remember a poetry I wrote in 1981 and read at the national astronomy colloquium of SARM’s Perseid Event in 1995.
That was the prologue of SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival.
Hypothesis
The grandmother of the Universe
Sitting in her castle behind the sky
Is knitting clouds.
Then she throws them away
Through the window.
The sons of the abysses
Are picking stars
From the bottom of the seas.
Then they trade them
In the intergalactic markets.
Famous astronomers try to explain
The cosmology of matter.
In the meantime a child
From another state of existence
Is keeping in his hands
The whole Universe,
As if it were a toy.
#poetry