Astropoetica: Around the Sun, by Adrian Sima

Sunset migration
of the heart
on the dawn keyboards

in space
carried
by the wind
by a butterfly
by a comet
by love
by yesterday
by a planet
by the bone of light
giving birth to
the flesh buds

by love

perhaps
for us to build you,

solar emerald emotion
with your eyes
open
to both sides

English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Adrian Sima is a Romanian teacher of physics and popularizer of astronomy. He was named youth laureate for astropoetry at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM, and laureate of an international poetry festival in the Moldavian Republic. More of this poet's work may be found in the SARM Golden Astropoetic Gallery and The Best of SARM.