Observing the Sky

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

I am a night sportsman,
trained
by the light races
of the meteors,
by the competitions
of the stars
and deep sky objects
in giving light,
and by the performances
of the moon, planets
and comets
in reflecting light.

If I resist till the morning,
I receive a heavenly gold medal:
the sunrise!

Copyright © 2005, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Copyright © 2004, Alexandru Conu

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 author of original astropoetry performances presented at the International Meteor Organization Conferences 1997-2004, 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. More of this poet's work may be found in the SARM Golden Astropoetic Gallery.