Solar Definitions

astro-photo-poem by Dan Mitrut

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The Sun...

The dream of the planets,
an impossible concentration
of fluid circles,
phantoms of
Hydrogen and Helium,
illusions
of desert and water,
of whisper and red.

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The Sun...

The original sin
of space
lured
by time.

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The Sun...

A blind spot
carried by the

(absolute,
eternal,
unconscious)

darkness.

Copyright © 2004, Dan Mitrut

All photographs copyright © Dan Mitrut
~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~

Romanian lawyer and poet Dan Mitrut is the author of numerous works of astronomical poetry, folk music, photography, graphics, sculpture, and drama. A meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database, he is a multiple laureate for the astronomical arts at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He serves as the technical vice president of SARM and has authored original astro-folk music recitals performed at the EuRoEclipse Perseids 99 (Romania) and the IMO Conference 2000 (Romania). More of this poet's work may be found in the SARM Golden Astropoetic Gallery.