RETURN OF CHAMPIONS -
COSMOPOETRY TOURNAMENTS
FOR GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH 2021 -
BOOK IV of
COSMOPOETRY DIARY IN THE PANDEMIC
CHAPTER VII (episodes 121-144)
Comments and English translations from Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Design: Florin Alexandru Stancu
121
BUCHAREST, APRIL 18-20, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
A solar halo
in rainy days is like a
star in cloudy nights
122
LIVE TOURNAMENT WITH ZIGMUND TAUBERG
On April 30, 2021
an unforgettable tournament with
a former Romanian national astropoetry laureate,
teacher of mathematics, popularizer of astronomy,
leader of an elite cultural circle in Bucharest,
for which I chose a picture taken on April 12.
His astropoem bellow
catches excellently the spirit of Global Astronomy Month,
so I decided to publish it in two variants:
the Romanian original (and rhymed) version and my English translation.
He is the longest-lived astropoet in the world.
Age: 94!
LUNA MONDIALĂ A ASTRONOMIEI
De Zigmund Tauberg
Aprilie, o lună care este
Considerată lună de poveste.
Mijloc amețitor de primăvară
Un aer minunat, care spre seară
Îți pregătește marea feerie
De aștri care dau lumină vie
Și noaptea-mpodobesc bolta cerească.
Apoi spre zi, lumina va să crească
Iar soarele-ncălzește atmosfera
Cu raze ce-ntrețin viața pe Terra.
Dar te întrebi, de ce numai o lună ?
Știința, iată, poate să ne spună
Că stele se născură bunăoară
Nainte mult ca oamenii s-apară.
Putem răspunde clar, fără ocol.
Luna Astronomiei e-un simbol,
Și ca simbol. măreț. e bine
Să îl cinstești cum se cuvine.
GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH
By Zigmund Tauberg
April is a month that is
Considered a fairytale month,
Dizzying middle of spring,
A wonderful air that prepares
Its great enchantment for the evening,
When the stars give the living light
Adorning the vault during the night.
Then by day the light grows
And the sun warms the atmosphere
With rays that sustain life on Earth.
But you wonder, why only a month?
Science can tell us that
The stars were born
Long before humans appeared,
So we can answer clearly:
Global Astronomy Month is just
A symbol, an event
That must be properly honored
As a great achievement.
BETELGEUSE
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Orion’s last soldier
watching the transition
from winter to spring
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HYPERIONS
(Bucharest, April 21, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
One day, after I saw
our star shortly after sunrise and shortly before sunset,
I found a building on which it was written “Hyperion”
(“the high one” in old Greek).
Then Hyperion the Sun
withdrew to make space
for Hyperion the Moon.
124
LIVE TOURNAMENT WITH VICTOR CHIFELEA
On April 29, 2021
I met near the Palace of Parliament and the Rocket Building
a dear friend of mine since 1987
(participant in SARM’s Cosmopoetry Festival since the first edition in 1996,
where he received many awards),
an engineer who prefers fantasy astropoetry,
for a tournament which I completed with three pictures
taken in March 23, April 5 and April 12.
SIRIUS
By Victor Chifelea
His purpose can be misleading,
his appearance is the same,
he can quickly turn hope
into cruel despair
The mad dog of infinite expanses,
escaped from the chains of judgment,
sends deceptive lights
which determine our destiny from light years
And we on earth look humbly at the sky,
with teary eyes from hard work
and the heart full of hope,
to the inexorable glimmer of our becoming.
TO ALPHA CANIS MAJORIS
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
You come and go but
I’m not worried - you live like
a repeated jump
125
A COSMIC CORNER
(Bucharest, April 11, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
In a starry pro(avant)garage,
a sun center
with a blue planet.
126
BUCHAREST, APRIL 22, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
It’s so good to live a day with
morning solar reflections,
blossoms,
a sunset watched by the Moon
and a new astral triangle
honoring Global Astronomy Month 2021:
the Moon, Regulus
and a leaf!
127
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH DAN MITRUT
The second tournament with a teacher,
former vice-president of SARM,
multiple national laureate for astropoetry and astronomical arts,
founder of astro-folk music in Romania…
I DON’T WANT A TICKET TO MARS
By Dan Mitrut
What other stories could Orion tell?
There is no one in the house of the constellations,
all things would turn their faces
to immortality
To live there without a Pole Star
and without the wheat field from which
the Pleiades rise…
Without the crickets that make the stars blink...
No, I don't want to leave.
On earth you can still hide
behind the icon of a twilight.
Goodbye, ex-earthlings,
lost in the red rust of the heart.
BETWEEN ELNATH AND ZETA TAURI
(Bucharest, April 12, 2020)
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
After the great
opposition, Mars feels protected
between the Bull’s horns
128
BUCHAREST, APRIL 23, 2021
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Spring with leaves, flowers and blossoms.
“Please receive us in your game!” -
said the Sun and the Moon.
129
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH VALENTIN GRIGORE
VARIATION
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Life is changeable -
after a stormy weather,
sometimes a calm Moon
DIVERSITY
Astro-photo-haiku by Valentin Grigore
Clouds of storm,
colored sunset,
the Moon’s blossoms!
130
SHORT HALTS
(Bucharest, April 24, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
The Sun fighting the clouds,
short halts in the past and in the future,
the sun god Apollo expressly for us
and his futile attempts to crown himself
with a solar halo…
131
GROWTH
(Bucharest, April 24, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
An interesting dusk
and (so I would say)
the Moon
bigger than yesterday.
132
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH ADRIAN SIMA
The second tournament with he physicist-priest, teacher and amateur astronomer,
former national youth laureate for astropoetry and astronomy…
GRAVITY
By Adrian Sima
Flowers are not the ones that will tell the truth about light -
their roots pierce the darkness.
The light is not the one that will tell the truth about sleep -
the rest weaves behind the eyelids like a ball of rays
around a black hole.
Sleep is not the one that will tell the truth about dreams -
these are of birds caught in flight
by the colored ropes of gravity.
And not just these things will bring us together. . .
Not the one that is directly proportional to the mass product
and inversely proportional to the square of the distance ...
Not gravity, no!
His wing hummed with the hourglass rustle.
ALPHA AQUILAE
(Bucharest, April 11, 2021)
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Unveiled cosmic light -
Altair lightening
the Eagle’s great flight
133
WITH THE MOON SHORTLY BEFORE THE NIGHT QUARANTINE
(Bucharest, April 25, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Noon Sun between blocks and trees,
moonrise one hour before the night quarantine,
the cross of a park with
children learning to dance,
a dog walking its servant,
a little girl throwing a celestial sphere,
an ET,
the Moon looking for the most comfortable position…
and suddenly I felt myself suspended between
the lowering Sun
and the high Moon.
134
WITH THE MOON SHORTLY AFTER THE NIGHT QUARANTINE
(Bucharest, April 25, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Running to my block
just for the night quarantine.
Down, sunset. Up, Moon.
135
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH ION(UT) MORARU
The third tournament with the oldest astro-art-poet
active in the SARM movement of astropoetry and cosmopoetry…
THE NORTH STAR
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Every man should have
a Polaris as reference
point for his deeds
POLARIS
Astro-art-poem by Ion(ut) Moraru
The North Star guides the steps of travelers,
shows the poets the way in verse
and fills those who see life in vain with confidence.
Thus Vikings led their ships to new lands
and the winds in the sails are the helium ions that cover the star.
Now astronomers are turning ships into telescopes:
Polaris’ mass seems twice as small as that of the Sun,
its age seems ten times smaller
and its category is a Cepheid,
every four days it swells, shines and then decreases,
and the more we observe it,
the less we understand it.
136
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH DOMINIC DIAMANT
The third tournament with a former national astropoetry laureate (age 86)…
LIMITS
By Dominic Diamant
How do I exceed my limits?
Letting my spirit fly
free and unrestricted
like a blinding ray
rippling into infinity.
COSMOS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
(Bucharest, April 4-22, 2021)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
A store of electronic comets,
two visions of the Sky Tower,
a solar wheel in the Tei Park,
the Sun itself,
a rocket flying to the Moon in the Youth Park,
Capella with Menkalinan
and many blossoms as elements of connection
between earth and heaven.
137
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH TIT TIHON
The last tournament with a former national astropoetry laureate (now in Canada),
who presents a precious memory from Dimitrie Olenici’s youth camps
around his private observatory, dedicated to
the Perseid meteor shower and astronomy…
MELANCHOLY
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
There is no doubt - a
private observatory
is also a tale
REMEBERING “PERSEID NIGHTS” IN HORODNIC
Astro-photo-poem by Tit Tihon
When the morning dew rains in August
Perseids sing in meteor lyrics
The moon sets when the little astronomers come
To look at the sky seated in the shape of a cross
I saw one, said the happy little boy,
Being enchanted by the spectacular rain of stars
The first in his existence on the third planet
Somewhere in Horodnic, near the master teacher
I also counted a few meteors in a few seconds,
Other children counted many more
Perseids and Delta Aquariids
They also received a cup as a reward from
The magnificent little private observatory
138
WESTERN SOLAR ARC AND EASTERN MOONRISE
(Central Bucharest. April 26, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Sunset, great spires,
moonrise and the last song of
colors in the dusk
139
LIVE TOURNAMENT WITH MARIAN MAHALLA,
ALEXANDRU STOENESCU AND RAZVAN GHINEA
On April 27-28, 2021
I lived a fantastic night of neighborhood astronomy under the Full Moon
with my friends from the zone of my youth.
A GAM gala night!
I also selected three of them for this tournament.
FULL MOON
By Marian Mahalla
The Full Moon is
beautiful even for those who
don’t have sky livings
FULL MOON
By Alexandru Stoenescu
Every time the Full Moon
with its surrounding light
is quite incentive
FULL MOON
By Razvan Ghinea
The Full Moon is great
and wondrous, you can see
the whole Sun in it
FRIENDS
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
During GAM it’s nice
to meet old and new friends
(including the Full Moon)
140
INTENSE MORNING
(Bucharest, April 27, 2021)
Astro-photo-haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
April, rain, Sun and…
magnolia. Notice: a
very nice result.
141
TV SHOW
Haiku by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, collage by Valentin Grigore
Great Universe and
“Us and the Sky” - a loyal
micro-universe
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142
END OF GAM 2021 IN BUCHAREST
(April 28-30, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Stars in trees,
Sun in clouds,
a symbolic night with
the stars of the Spring Triangle
(Regulus, Spica and Arcturus),
Crowned Moon,
blossoms and starry saints
among sunny churches.
143
EMAIL TOURNAMENT WITH VALENTIN GRIGORE
One more time, the president of SARM
trying to demonstrate the inexhaustible beauty of the celestial-terrestrial world…
NOVAE
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Fires seeming like
floral holidays when the
sky brings something new
MOUNTAIN SKY - NOVA CASSIOPEIAE 2021
Astro-photo-haiku by Valentin Grigore
Nova Cas above
Runcu Stone - 50 frames and…
my best capture
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URBAN SKY - THE GREATEST NORTHERN STARS
OR MY SYMBOL EVENING OF GAM 2021
(Bucharest, April 12, 2021)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Arcturus, Vega,
Capella, Sirius - four
stars for a great evening
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