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Leonid Poetry, 2000
In April 2000, NASA Ames Center in co-operation with SETI Institute organized in Israel the Leonid MultiInstrument Aircraft Campaign Workshop, with the support of Tel-Aviv University, the host of the event. Participants: astronomers, scientists, professors and other sky lovers from North America, Israel, Europe, former Soviet Union, Japan. On April 17th, during the festive evening at Maganda Restaurant, the Romanians Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore presented an original performance of Romanian Leonid poems composed by members of SARM, from which the selection below was afterwards published in the volume of the workshop, Leonid Storm Research - Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 (Chief Editor: Dr. Peter Jenniskens - also Chief Scientist of NASA Leonid Project)

What a wonderful night!
Thousands of Leonids so nice
fly just like some glow worms.
Are we in Paradise?

Dimitrie Olinici

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Fragments of fire
from the roar of the Lion,
alarm in the sky.

Populations of Leonids,
and populations of men
armed with feelings for a love hunt.

Be generous,
Zenith Hourly Rate,
give them all they want.

Sky fireballs, earthly observers,
Leonids and people,
a magic connection.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

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She crosses flights
with rains of stars,
Lioness Temple-Tuttle

Michaela Al. Orescu

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The Great Apocalypse
of the late autumn.

Gelu-Claudiu Radu

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Flights of light,
whispers of stars,
the sky in the night
embracing the Earth.

Tears of light
on the sky's face,
a crying in the night
over the world.

Valentin Grigore

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Meteor shower in a test tube.
In the Leonid isle
every inhabitant tattoos in his palm
a small universe;
but their comet has disintegrated
into a meteor shower.

Diana Maria Ogescu

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Arrest those fireballs, those lights,
Not to burn the Earth on their flights.

Victor Chifelea

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I gladly looked at the wave
of blazes coming to me,
and I felt myself sinking
in the meteoric sea.

Tina Visarian

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Man and meteor...
The sky is shaken
of their love.

Iulian Olaru