Astropoetica: Universal Stage, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Artwork by Adrian Macinca "We must make
more mystery!"-
says the organization
of the nebulae.

"We must gulp
more light!"-
says the syndicate
of the black holes.

"We must fight
more darkness!"-
says the association
of the heavenly bodies.

"Play your roles,
my living marionettes,"
says the Universe,
"just play your roles…"

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.