Andromeda, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Andromeda

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

You knew the extreme feelings,
Andromeda!
Left by your parents Cepheus and Cassiopeia
(constellations of betrayal),
saved and loved by Perseus
(the constellation of the flying rescuer),
you have become a famous woman in the sky,
a constellation too,
possessing even a great nebula!

And perhaps the Andromedid meteors
are your tears
of despair and happiness.

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 1997-2002, 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.