Taurus

by Dan Mitrut


In the labyrinth,
the Sun sets earlier,
and is lost and cried
in a beam of blood.

The last sacrifice writes poems
to the Minotaurus,

and somebody changes them
into aldebaranic toys of diamond
for the children who forgot to play
"the double star".


Copyright © 2003, Dan Mitrut

~ English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe ~


Romanian lawyer and poet Dan Mitrut is the author of numerous works of astronomical poetry, folk music, photography, graphics, sculpture, and drama. A meteor observer included in the International Meteor Organization Data Base, he is a multiple laureate for the astronomical arts at the Cosmopoetry Festival of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM. He serves as the technical vice president of SARM and has authored original astro-folk music recitals performed at the EuRoEclipse Perseids 99 (Romania) and the IMO Conference 2000 (Romania).

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