Cygnus (Astro-if), by Lucian Boboc

Cygnus (Astro-if)

by Lucian Boboc

If we would look at the sky
staying on a wing of the Swan

our faces
would be caressed
by the cold greatness
of the Milky Way ...

~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~
~ first English version published in Romanian Contemporary Astropoetry 1998 ~

Romanian teacher Lucian Boboc is a meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Database. He was named the youth laureate for astropoetry at the first Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM in 1996.