NEW ASTROPOEMS AT TARGOVISTE ASTRO-FEST 2023 (1)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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1. LONELINESS AND ANTI-LONELINESS
(Astropoetic work written in spatiotemporal tandem following an astro-cenacle for two, held in the rain on the bench of a station through which buses passed with the following message:
WHILE TIME GOES ON, PLEASE HOLD ON MORE TO THE BARS AND LESS TO THE SUN!)
By Adrian Sima and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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MOTTO:
The positions of two people in the smallest spatial proximity are different in time.
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LONELINESS (1)
By Adrian Sima (advisor: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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In an astronomy workshop that I held
at the high school where I teach,
I had in front of me (3 m away) a 6th grade girl.
I told her that the speed of light is 300,000 km/s
and we started calculating how long it takes for light
to get from me to her...
Answer: 10 nanoseconds!!!
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Then I asked her how long it takes the light
to reach from her to a colleague,
located a little further from me (9 m away).
Answer: 30 nanoseconds...
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The conclusion
from an astrophysical point of view:
two people, no matter
how close they are in space,
cannot coexist at exactly the same time.
The present is only mine, for me.
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Suddenly, another girl's whispered amazement
was heard from behind:
"What loneliness!”
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ANTI-LONELINESS (1)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (advisor: Adrian Sima)
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A universal space law -
don't try to be alone
in loneliness!
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LONELINESS (2)
By Adrian Sima (advisor: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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The black hole attracts everything towards it...
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With its astrophysical longing,
it draws all its friends
into its gravitational embrace
that I'm afraid is deadly…
it is a spatiotemporal
loneliness-singularity!
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ANTI-LONELINESS (2)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (advisor: Adrian Sima)
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If two people meet,
it could be
an encouraging caress.
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If two stars meet,
it could be
a cosmic explosion.
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But if more people
get together for an astro-fest,
it could definitely be
a happy star cluster!
#poetry