BELIEVING IN THE SPRING EQUINOX -
BOOK III of
COSMOPOETRY DIARY IN THE PANDEMIC
CHAPTER III (episodes 41-60)
Design: Florin Alexandru Stancu
41
A SUPREME FRIENDSHIP
Astro-photo-poem (in a verse) by Valentin Grigore
If you don’t believe, here is a cosmic embrace: Mars and the Pleiades.
42
CHALLENGES
(Bucharest, March 7, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Walks in the Youth Park
challenging the Sun to come
down beyond the hill
43
FUTURE, PAST, PRESENT
(Bucharest, March 7, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
“Future and past are two faces of a file.”
-Mihai Eminescu (the Romanian national poet)-
A modern flying saucer offering inside
imaginary future trips through the Universe,
the old Military Astronomical Observatory
keeping the memory of golden times,
the Sun and I living the present.
44
FLASHING TIME
(Bucharest, March 7, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Crepuscular time
and the Sun concentrating
on a church spire
45
WAITING FOR VENUS
(Bucharest, March 7, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Who is real Venus?
No one.
Venus has abandoned her Morning Star clothes,
hiding now to prepare her Evening Star suit,
but she has kindly left her belt
in the sky and in the lake.
46
BEINGS IN THE PARK
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
On March 7, 2021
I saw a Greater Dog
(whose star Alpha belongs to the Winter Triangle)
and more variants of the Swan
(whose star Alpha belongs to the Summer Triangle)
in the Youth Park.
This is not Vega’s time -
Sirius said from among the willows -
so feel free
to stay with me.
47
BUCHAREST, MARCH 3, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Morning Moon,
the Sun rising and setting,
and a short “expedition” among the neighborhood blocks.
I felt there like a prisoner
in a labyrinth of walls,
but Orion appeared like a Cosmic Mag,
or rather like a freedom flag.
48
PLANET OF SNOW
(Bucharest, March 11-13, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
My dear Sun, you must
come in a hurry to save
the planet of snow.
“I’m jealous of you,
I suffer from great heat.” - said
Sirius later.
49
ASTEROID VESTA AND LEO’S TRIPLET
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (poem) and Valentin Grigore (photos)
Beginning of spring in Targoviste
with shapes of snow
as ghosts of deep sky objects
and snowflakes
as ghosts of asteroids…
50
LONG DAY
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
On March 11, 2021,
I saw not a show,
but an impossible love
between fire and snow.
51
KING’S DOME
(Bucharest, March 12, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
What a strange weather, I said
watching the cupola of the king.
Astronomical winter
in meteorological spring.
52
BUCHAREST, MARCH 12-14, 2021
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
The Sun setting and
leaving a reflection to
sleep in my bedroom
53
HIGH CLOSENESS
(Bucharest, March 11-16, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Branches full of snow,
branches free of snow,
branches with a planet called Mars,
and among them, on the left,
the star Aldebaran.
Are they the last snowballs?
Are they the first blossoms?
Anyway, I am their fan.
54
BUCHAREST, MARCH 14 AND 15, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
A normal sunset
and a sunrise under the norm
preparing the world
for another storm.
55
RUNCU STONE, MARCH 13-14, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore.
I felt like in a forest with eyes of stars.
A mountain sunrise,
the reappearance of the spring’s zodiacal light,
winter stars in March -
Sirius and M41 in a sky painted by stars…
56
BUCHAREST, MARCH 14-19, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Once, after I saw Sirius,
the weather became stormy
and I felt so obsolete…
But I felt like a newborn
when I saw, again,
the sunrise and the sunset.
57
RAINBOW
Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore
Waiting for the spring,
a photo-story next to the Tei Lake in Bucharest
with a duckling close to its home,
a wheel
and the color arc of the light.
58
BUCHAREST, MARCH 19, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
End of astronomical winter
with the sunset, the Moon and Sirius
in their last day of seasonal modeling.
From tomorrow onwards, after the equinox,
they will have another manager
called astronomical spring.
59
TEI LAKE
Astro-photo-haiku by Valentin Grigore
Waiting for the spring
with the Crowned Moon between Mars
and Aldebaran
60
A SARM MINI-MEETING
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (photos), Valentin Grigore, and Cosmin Sorin Miclos
March 20. 2021.
After a sunrise covered by clouds,
the Sun broke the fog
and we went to the “Tei” Student Park
in Northern Bucharest
for a SARM collective message:
“Question:
Depression because of the third pandemic wave
or the victory of the vaccines?
Answer:
Hello, Spring Equinox!
We are together again!”
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