Astropoetica: Astro-Memorial, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

A few years ago
I was with my parents in a park
where we gladly watched
a fine Moon-Jupiter-Venus conjunction.

A few evenings ago
I was in the same park
where I sadly watched
the same Moon.

This time it was alone among the clouds
as now I am on Earth,
but it seemed to be veiled
by a superior light,
as if it remembered
Jupiter and Venus,
and as if my parents
walked on it
as angels of astropoetry.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe is the founder and director of the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He is the editor of over 30 slim English anthologies of Romanian and international astropoetry, and is the director of original astropoetry performances presented at the International Meteor Organization Conferences 1997-2007, the Leonid MAC Workshop of NASA (Tel Aviv, 2000), and the European Convention of Science Fiction - Romania 2001. In 2003, he initiated the Meteor Contemporary Poetry Project for the IMO. He is also the coordinator of Cosmopoetry - SARM & Friends. More of this poet's work may be found in the SARM Golden Astropoetic Gallery and The Best of SARM.