Draco, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Draco

by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

I never saw such a nice dragon.
Your skin is adorned by small stars.

I never saw such a tenacious fighter.
Hercules defeated you,
but your followers
have remained in many tales,
and one of them was even... Dracula!

I never saw such a honest guardian.
You protected the Hesperides' Garden,
and now are keeping
the two chariots of our sky aspirations
no to be lost in space.

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.