SARM ASTRO-PHOTO-POETRY POSTER
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Valentin Grigore (image coordinator)
and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astropoetry coordinator)
continued a long tradition that was
begun at the IMC 1996 at Apeldoorn (Holland)
by organizing the SARM astro-photo-poetry poster.
SARM 2010 poster,
photographed by
Bernd Brinkman (Germany)
SARM 2010 poster,
photographed by
Valentin Grigore
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe next to the SARM poster
photographed by
Valentin Grigore
Three Romanians in Armagh
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Miruna Popescu and Valentin Grigore)
photographed by
Alexandru Sebastian Grigore
IMC participants looking at the SARM poster
photographed by
Bernd Brinkman
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The 2010 poster also included a few astropoems
composed by foreign friends of SARM:
YOUR CHOICE OF OPTIONS
-by Steve Sneyd (UK,
Director of Hilltop Press)-
If you want to speak to the stars,
press One - if you
want them to hear you,
press Two. To hear them speak true,
press Three till your head explodes.
PERSEIDS 2010
-by Arlene Carol (USA,
residing in Turkey)-
in a world where change is the only constant,
i am impatiently awaiting celestial visitors.
as the time approached,
i waited.
the setting sun,
the rising moon,
the hot damp wind
rustling the leaves...
and i waited.
there! there! look!!...
the warrior's spear
thrusts and then fads.
another, then another
again he tries to roust
the medusa from her cave...
and the night wore on
and the warrior roamed
the starry sky
eternally seeking his prize.
THE TEARS OF ST. LAWRENCE
-by Marge Simon (USA,
Editor of Star*Line - the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association)-
Tonight I walk along the shore
searching the night sky for
the stars of the Little Dipper,
that I may be sure not to miss
the Tears of St. Lawrence
streaking the heavens
in pre-dawn, showering
my eyes with radiance.
There is a sudden rush of wind,
the sea is on my lips, as the Perseids
make divinity of the foaming tide,
and the white night sings aloud.
EPHEMERAL EXHIBIT
-by Kim Goldberg (Canada,
poet and journalist)-
Dark blade of August sky
a buzz with peeeeent peeeeent cry of nighthawks
on the wing till their bucket mouths
stitch shut with skein of white silk spilling
from Medusa’s hungry eye,
her writhing head clutched tight in a warrior’s
snug fist, his bloody sword
swung high - the hiss of roiling
snakes, the sizzle of bright embers joining
final chill of boundless space,
the soundless sweep of nighthawks
whisking clean the shank.
VIBRATIONS
-by Alfredo Caronia (Italy,
co-discoverer of five asteroids)-
Furrows, we, heavy
furrows, ye, fleeting,
we, flights of dragonflies
you, ancient sculptures
as fossil flints
we, quivering strategies
for adventurous synchronicities,
you, Meteors
cross sections
tracer arrows,
you are not Echo of a path
of the history,
not a race of
heroes,
in seal of
dynasty,
or a goal
of a extreme boundary
to conquer,
only a multiform structure
of a cosmic
motion.
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Since the space for photographs was limited, we prefer to continue
by presenting Romanian astropoems in a much larger image concept,
in order to show…
PERSEIDS 2010 OVER ROMANIA
Perseid in the Morning (2010 August 12)
Photo: Valentin Grigore
A Meteor next to the Milky Way
Photo: Elena Cristina Ungureanu
Perseid Fireball
Photo: Andrei Zincenco
HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-
Does anybody
know the suffering of
shooting stars?
SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS
-by Boris Marian (Mehr)-
From honey and bitter
The verse from the spheres
Lowers into the poet’s mind.
Who is singing and bleeding?
Certainly, the Swan of the crying.
The Archer is a killer,
The Eagle has a beak
Without teeth,
The Lion does not have wings
And is so cold…
Only the Dragon asks himself
What kind of brother he is
With Hercules and Perseus…
My heart does not know their secrets
And becomes a pyre
Because I’ll never understand
The Song of the Lyre.
PERSEUS
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
Perseus was a polygamist
with two wives:
a mythological one,
Andromeda,
mother of “Perseides”,
and an astronomical one,
Comet Swift-Tuttle,
mother of Perseids.
PERSEIDS 2010
-photographic poem by
Florian Ispas-
APOTHEOSIS
-by Andreea Alecu-
My pores absorb stellar dust
I complete my body with the cinders from them
through eternities I travel to anywhere
to accomplish the wonder
burning, hurried and ephemeral graces
dance on areas of cosmic spheres
sent by the gods with ciphered messages
and give sense to my abstract dreams
THE CURSE OF MEDUSA
OR CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT PERSEUS
-by Victor Chifelea-
Looking through old writings
through the infinity of histories
I found out the space coordinates
With an eternally inert place
All flights are broken over there
the enthusiasm of any utopia is killed
rockets of ideologies are annihilated
and feelings are condemned forever
because from a winner
the king-knight became defeated
after he abandoned the trophy of
the glassy eyes of indifference
over the cold tiles of the constellation
And thus in the ice chaos
ideas lose any understanding
but the bitterness and pain seem to be the same
and life and death pass arm in arm over
the threshold of unbeing.
PERSEIDS
-by “Alex”-
Go a few kilometres
out of town,
lie on your back,
watch the zenith,
and the sky will do
its duty.
PERSEIDS 2010
-astro-photo-poem by
Dan Mitrut-
In his dream
the creator of arrows
saw the people
the arrows
traversed the sky
and the earthlings’ radiant-hearts
from his left scapula
sparkles of light came
the rib of his bow
sighed songs of crickets
perfume of ground and dew
in the zenith
HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-
Celestial tracers
in the night -
the Perseids
PERSEIDS
-by Alex(andru) Conu-
For astronomers
August means the month of Perseids.
The Perseids are not fine girls
running in the sky after Perseus,
but the name of a fine rain of meteors,
which can mark your life.
HAIKU
-by Maria Tirenescu-
from the promenade
watching the perseids
clear night
PERSEIDS
-by Tit Tihon-
North-West from Capella.
Perseus rises,
a hero with wings at feet,
throwing particles in drops of time,
which seem like lights in the night.
Multicolored lights
from a comet vibrating the Way,
as sacred tears,
where Argo Navis lost its end.
Prayers of meteors
dreaming of the twilight,
the pilgrimage of the light in armour,
Perseids that in the Cosmos
fall among solar winds,
veiling in indigo
the small traveling Earth.
HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-
Starry hinds
are playing in the sky -
the Perseids
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART I, PRIBOIU, AUGUST 11-13
1. CELESTIAL GAMES
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore
PERSEIDS 2010
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
New rain of stars:
it seems that Perseus
rides both Pegasus
and Equuleus.
FACES
-by Irina Cristescu-
A wave
a blow
a rustling of time
shut the spiral of memories
under Perseus’ looks.
The old faces of the sky
remain stonestill -
statues with souls
in the eternal constellation of time
HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-
Crystal tears
are dripping from the canopy -
rain of stars
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART I, PRIBOIU, AUGUST 11-13
2. METEORS
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore
PERSEIDS 2010 JOKE
-by Zigmund Tauberg-
This year, as usual,
a flood of meteors
comes from Perseus
on the summer nights.
But this time we are so warm
that we invoke his help,
to send us a set
of water meteors
able to get
to Terra and to
make us wet.
AUGUST 2010 HAIKU
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
Perseids… Hide yourself
after clouds, Jupiter,
these are not your nights!
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART I, PRIBOIU, AUGUST 11-13
3. METEOR TRAINS
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore
PERSEIDS’ ATTRACTION
-by Virgil V. Scurtu-
I began to study astronomy
when I was a child,
and meteors were
my great happiness,
and the Perseids were
the greatest of them.
Following my Romanian precursors
(such as Vintila Siadbey
and Grigore Abramovici Sain)
I published an article
when I was 19 years old,
and I felt myself the greatest.
From meteors
I passed to cosmogony,
and now I see comets
not as mothers of meteoroids,
but as their big sisters,
super-meteoroids,
one for a stream,
moving among planets
as brave characters.
PERSEIDS 2010
-by “Mistralle”-
On melodies
of the cricket choir, the sky
was furrowed by lights…
MY PERSEIDS 2010
-by Ion(ut) Moraru-
Perseus sent his glow worms
over villages
I could not sleep
during the maximum
I hear exclamations of
my friends of show
let the dawn come
to switch off the light
Next year too
I’d like to slow the Earth
from its oval way
and to hide the Moon
just for watching again
the divine celestial stones
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART I, PRIBOIU, AUGUST 11-13
4. METEOR TRAIN EVOLUTION
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore
PERSEIDS
-by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-
Thrilled by his love
for Andromeda,
Perseus transpires fireballs.
Shake yourself more,
radiant!
HAIKU
-by Dominic Diamant-
Dust and powder
just blinking us -
the Perseids
HAPPY AUGUST
-verses:
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
photos:
1. Marian Lucian Achim (M51)
2. Catalin Paduraru ‘Sarpe” (M33)
3. Laurentu Alimpie (Gamma Cygni)
4. Catalin Timosca (Wilky Way)
The Perseids are not only
admirable and transient atmospheric treasures,
they also call us to check again
devoted and permanent cosmic treasures.
RAIN OF STARS
-by Tit Tihon-
The Sun cries after Perseus’ successors
that transformed earthlings
from stellar energies
into living, euclidean beings.
From the cosmic infinite,
meteors as summer heralders
radiating as millimetric bits
of cometary dust
that torch the stellar rain,
which lightens three earthly dimensions.
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART II, FAGARAS MOUNTAINS, AUGUST 16-20
1. TOGETHER AT PERSEIDS AGAIN
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore-
KAPPA CYGNIDS
-by Iulian Olaru-
Northern Cross -
the light overflows
in stray drops
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART II, FAGARAS MOUNTAINS, AUGUST 16-20
2. BENEVOLENT MOON DURING PERSEID AND KAPPA CYGNID TIME
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore-
KAPPA CYGNIDS 2010
-by Dan Mitrut-
Is it possible to transform
the seeds of swans?
Stars fallen from their wild heels
naked hopes dance
only in eyes
the seeds of swans become
wings of angels
the smile -
transparent lightning
from the top of the sky
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART II, FAGARAS MOUNTAINS, AUGUST 16-20
3. GLORY DURING THE PERSEID AND KAPPA CYGNID TIME
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore-
PEACE
-by Irina Cristescu-
In the alchemy of August
Cygnus embraces the canopy of heaven
with Perseus’ permission.
SARM’S “PERSEIDE XVIII” EVENT 2010,
PART II, FAGARAS MOUNTAINS, AUGUST 16-20
4. NOCTURNAL SKY
-photographic poem by
Valentin Grigore-
METEOR SUPERSTITION
-by Alex(andru) Conu-
A superstition calls you
to make a wish
when you see a meteor.
Nobody can guarantee that
the wish will be realized,
but thus
you can establish a target
for which it deserves to work.
SARM’S PERSEID EVENT 2010
IN THE FAGARAS MOUNTAINS
-photographic poem by
Casper ter Kuile (Holland -
a leading member of the Dutch Meteor Society
and former council member of the International Meteor Organization -
a special guest)
… and an exemplary friendship beyond the IMC:
Casper ter Kuile and Valentin Grigore in Fagaras
Note:
All English translations from the Romanian by
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe.
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A fine moment at the Armagh Market Place Theatre
was when the SARM poster was visited by the
current coordinator of Astronomers Without Borders Ireland,
Deirdre Kelleghan (former President of the Irish Astronomical Society).
She was only able to participate for one day
but she left her own haiku to be read on September 18th:
PERSEIDS
Swift Tuttle
Shiny Tiny's
Bouncing off Earth's Bubble
-Deirdre Kelleghan (Ireland)-
Valentin Grigore, Deirdre Kelleghan, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
and the SARM poster
Photo: Alexandru Sebastian Grigore
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