Two Birds
by Zigmund Tauberg
In the clear nights, I admire,
Looking at the canopy of heaven,
Two birds with starry wings.
In their heads, Deneb and Altair.
And only through constellations can you see
In nights adorned by stars
A Swan and an Eagle like two brothers,
Peaceably evolving together.
Copyright © 2002, Zigmund Tauberg
~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~
Zigmund Tauberg teaches mathematics in Romania. A popularizer of astronomy, he was named laureate for "pedagogical astropoetry" at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM