Human Supernova

A supernova is
the most impressive sky event,
the biggest explosion of light
before the star's death.

Every martyr of space
remains in our hearts for ever
a supernova of hope.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

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Song

We came here
from the light of the stars
and, sometimes, of the Moon.
Some day we'll go back,
singing a song:
for the Sun,
or maybe just because we love.

Calin Niculae

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Destiny of Stellar Man (haiku)

arm in arm with my star
raising together
to the sky altar

Iulian Olaru

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Pure Mourning- Columbia

I hope all seven will be found in the stars' brightness.
I hope their sacrifice not to be useless.
I am so blind to confound God
with the Universe...

Vlad Dumitrescu

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Despair for Columbia

I see so much despair,
Tears imbued with blood,
Iron pieces falling into the salty water.

The spirits have gone to remoteness-
They already passed over the sunbeams.

Catalin Spranceana

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Sign

Laika, Soyuz, Challenger, Columbia...
have become light.
The astronauts chatter with the angels
in Oort Cloud.

We didn't learn enough the childish games
among the asteroids.

We didn't learn in the name of the Cosmos:
martyrs gravitate in our minds,
drinking from the Northern Aurora.

Dan Mitrut

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COLUMBIA!

A half of millennium ago,
a group of brave men, led by Christopher Columbus,
went to India not to the East, on the known way,
but to the West, facing the unknown among the storms of the ocean.

COLUMBIA - could be another name more adequate
for the ship carrying brave men to the unknown,
upon immense waters, or upon unfriendly skies?
To those places where, even being courageous,
you can arrive only through the big efforts of your fellows,
who give the best of human mind for this kind of expeditions.
You go there, carrying thoughts and endeavours
which belong to you and to the others who cannot go with you,
but are the same involved emotionally like you,
the same determined for your success.
In those places, you don't represent a firm or a group.
You represent all the people of Planet Earth.

Harald Alexandrescu
(coordinator of Admiral Vasile Urseanu Municipal Observatory in Bucharest)

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Seven Falling Stars

Meteors rained over me,
and names and shadows disappeared!
I overturn my thought.
On its edge,
I see Deneb,
the star of the sky Swan,
my votive light of wakefulness.

Tina Visarian

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Dedication

In flight, Columbia passed away,
Leaving seven flowers on its trace.
A silver tear has trickled
On the Universe's face.

Constantin Dumitrescu-Cunctator

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Seven Stars

it is not enough to enter
it is enough to want
in fact to understand what you can
in fact to understand you can!

Iulian Andrei

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Prayer for Columbia

A child hardly stands up
in the two-footed position
holding the canopy of heaven
in his small palms.

Like in a game of curiosity
he collects a few stars
dripping them upon the wound of the soul.

The child opens his palms
and receives the blessing:
seven stars with tired wings
stop to rest on the life thread
like some swallows on the mast of a ship
floating over waves of lights and shadows
...but only for a brief time.

Mircea Alexandru Popa

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Seven

Seven started to the infinite Universe,
Going to space's absolute knowledge,
Going under the same destiny-
They have been guided on the only way of immortality.

Narcis Zamfirescu

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To the Space Heroes

Since old times,
people have dreamed
of a higher flight,
and real heroes existed,
who died for science.
There was no danger
to stop their wish.
Those daring men, starting from the Earth
to a new stair of the old dream,
lost their wings by coming home.

But the dreams about other worlds don't die,
the way remains the same,
even if we cry the sacrifices
of blood from a sky flame.

Zigmund Tauberg

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Columbia

Atom, proton, electron,
cosmic dust, mumbling of nebula,
sun, planetary system...
all of them being sprinkled
on a spiral of space and time.

Bacterium, virus, fish, dinosaur, meteorite,
bird, mammal, homo sapiens
on the same coordinates of volutes.

Philosophers telling about atom, proton, electron,
and planetary mumbling.

Temerarious tourists, stifled by the horizon,
troubling the dimensions of space and time.

Modern knights in electronic armours,
stifled by relativity,
coming to fight gravity.

Maybe some of the rebels too courageous
are sentenced to return
to the primordial start of the game:
atom, proton, electron, cosmic dust...

The spiral of space and time continues its evolution,
and all that remains after the battle
is the salty taste of drops on our faces.

Victor Chifelea

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Vision

It's raining blood of light
from a sky
whipped by a new flight.
I see myself suavely breaking
meteor petals.

Adrian Sima

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The Space Shuttle

1. (thoughts about Columbia)
*What is an adventure without a happy end
at the edges of the Milky Way
in a vast epic?
*Did the brave flying seven know
they'll find their immortality
by embracing the Earth?
*They who write - burning
through love and sacrifice -
the best-seller of eternal endeavour,
are the most living persons.

2. (acrostic)
COLUMBIA,
Oh, what a flame in flight,
Lightening fantastically!
Unknown answer, and myth,
Matter and spirit together
Becoming victorious
In the song of silence,
As well as a divine fact.

3. (no epilogue)
The end of the magnificent cosmonauts
has caused us to mourn.
Whoever you are,
identify the outlines of the bridge
raised to the stars.

Dominic Diamant

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Columbia Space Shuttle

"We love you! Stay with us!"-
said the variable stars.
"God is closer here, and freer!"-
said the stars of the Winter Triangle.
"We'll give you eternal light
for you to help the earthlings!"-
said the double and multiple stars.

And seven other astronauts
have remained in the sky
to protect better
the noblest human dreams.

Andrei Dorian Gheorghe