Milky Way
astro-photo-poem by Dan Mitrut
and
maybe someday
in the blue shadow
when the crickets keep silent
feeling another world
you will be somewhere
on a peak
the only one definite
in the indefinite galaxy
Copyright © 2006, Dan Mitrut
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 Data Base, 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 and The Best of SARM.