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Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Friday, 24 May 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Bill Schohl, U.S.A.

Bill

This is one of the first poems I ever wrote, and it was back in 1977 in response to the discovery of tube worms on the deep ocean floor.  It...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Friday, 17 May 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Bill Schohl

Bill

This poem was written from Pluto's perspective. Apparently, it had been a secret admirer of the Sun for untold millions of years, and, as coincidence would have it, just when enough courage had been mustered to declare this love...

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Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 16 May 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore, Romania

Andrei

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 02 May 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore, Romania

Andrei


The most “popular” phenomenon during GAM 2013 was the partial lunar eclipse of 25 April, with an umbral magnitude of 0.0147 in Romania (only 1.47% of the Moon being covered during the maximum by the umbral shadow of the Earth).

For us,...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Tuesday, 30 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania

Andrei


Andrei

For the first part of the Epilogue I’ve chosen two Bucharestian monuments: a sunrise with the far silhouette of the Domnita Balasa Church, and a sunset with the...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 25 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania

andrei

Southern Sunset

andrei

South-Tropical Sunset

andrei

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Wednesday, 17 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania

andrei

In the middle of this series, its theme has made me return to my native city through the image above, which represents an artistic sun on a wall of the Saint Antim Church (an important historical monument in East Europe) and the irresistible real Sun.

Antim Ivireanul or...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Tuesday, 09 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania

Northern Sunrise

 Andrei

 
North-Tropical Sunrise

Andrei

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Monday, 08 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Bob Eklund, USA and Tony Berendsen, USA

Tony


Daybreak skims westward
Seventeen miles each minute—
Unending sunrise.

High noon touches down,
Casting...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 04 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Bob Eklund, USA and Deirdre Kelleghan, Ireland.

black

Deeper than the sky,
Lough Bray holds dark memories
From forgotten dreams...

A black hole, perhaps,
Buried here in Ireland
Through years uncounted.

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Tuesday, 02 April 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Romania

Andrei


Before starting an expedition to other continents, in October 2012 I meditated a little on the Mitropoly Hill in Bucharest, probably the most important place in Romanian history, which includes the current Patriarchal Cathedral (created in the 1650s...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 28 March 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore, Romania

andrei

Transit of Venus
(morning star as black rover)
shock across the Sun

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Thursday, 21 March 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore, Romania

Andrei

The President of SARM photographed this comet on 17 March 2013 in Priseaca-Targoviste, Dambovita County, Romania.

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Saturday, 16 March 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

by Ameé Hennig, Arizona, U.S.A.

Amee

Photo and haiku are both by Ameé Hennig, Program Manager for the International Dark-Sky Association.  The picture was taken...

Posted By Thilina Heenatigala on Monday, 04 March 2013. Posted in Astropoetry Blog

By Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

Hadfield


Fly so high so fast;
Sixteen sunrises each day;
Count my lucky stars.

Commander