3rd MILLENNIUM - YOUNGER GENERATION

Of course, some of the best astropoets of the
Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM,
representing the younger generation (under 60 years old),
also wrote astronautic poems at the beginning of the 3rd millennium.

So, let’s see an universal vision:

…Beyond the last known frontier of our world?
Dreams…
Made of experience, imagination, hope and feelings
they will take us further on.
We’ll soon reach other spaces
we’ll discover some other kind of time
because the future got closer.
Will we remember who we are?
Will we remember what we want?
(Calin Niculae,
from his “revolutionary” album of
astral photography, art and poetry “Echoes of Light”)

Let’s see some other poetic details too.
Thus, through a haiku, we could find about a good “satellitic” place
in the solar system for the future of human species:

Sadness near Jupiter;
bored Europe still waits for
colonization
(Gelu-Claudiu Radu)

Or, through a humorous short poem, “Petition”,
we could continue to enjoy personifications of heavenly bodies:

I am terribly furious. What can I say?
I’ll pretend reparations from the Milky Way.
My witnesses: Gemini, Cepheus,
Cassiopeia and proud Perseus.
The Great Chariot with the Charioteer
(What a crazy being! What a boozer!)
Threw me from the Cosmos, with a hit,
Just into the corner of a street.
So, people and stars, tell me: What can I do?
The Little Chariot abandoned me too,
Although the transport must be free
In the heavenly canopy.
(Silviu Georgescu)

We could find about another significant meditation of an astronaut:

Becoming an inter-stellar navigator
and my hopes roving
in the immense labyrinth of space…
My mistake:
the temptation to speak with Time
about personal favors.
(Gabriel Ivanescu)

Or something about the sacred mission of an astronaut:

“I shall simultaneously travel on three ways!” -
said the spaceman,
throwing javelins to stars
like some convicts to death.
“…one for yesterday,
one for today
and one for tomorrow…” -
he repeated, collecting the light
like a blood 
giving immortality.
(Adrian Sima)

And finally, glad I could make a presentation
(with historical literary roots)
of one of the most active groups in speculative poetry
out of Anglo-American world,
here is my own haiku as an epilogue:

space ship - courageous
echo of dream ship - praise to
heavenly bodies
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)