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Five Science Fiction & Fantasy Cosmopoems

CASTAWAY LOVERS

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two strangers
- a he and a she -
penetrated our solar system

their appearance is like ours
but we are worried
by their bizarre gestures

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they incline their heads backwards
open widely their mouths
and commit strident sounds
(calling that laughter)
they perform disgusting movements
in the void
after stupid rules
(calling that weightlessness dance)
they utter absurd phrases
(calling that poetry)

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we think they want to annihilate
our civilization

we're waiting for orders

destroy them

COSMIC REFLEXION

"We from the planet Hackstal
have discovered the Light of the Lights!"-
said to me Pawanashiwo.
"Come, I'll show you!"

And he removed a curtain of void
which made room to an exciting star.

Though so brilliant, it didn't blind me!
Though mute, I understood it!

"We invented a mirror in which every creature
can look at its soul!"- said Pawanashiwo.
"This light is yourself!"

"It can't be true," I shouted,
"everything is an illusion here!"

Suddenly, stutter of sight.
A halo of void all around me...
and a bright sadness in me.

TRANSPARENCE

There was a galaxy inhabited
by transparent beings.

Rayen, one of them, felt it was wrong
that the Architect of the Cosmos
had forgotten them
for the colour distribution.
So he pulled out a small star from space
and, lightening his way,
started through the Universe
looking for justice.

His movement, from far away,
appeared like a falling star.

SUPER-VIDEORECORDERS

The inhabitants of the planet Xeo
carried strange videorecorders
connected to their brains,
which registered their thoughts.
If someone died,
the records were left
with the central headquarters.

"What are you doing with them?"- I asked.

"Think that the eyes see only
a part of the sky."-
they answered.
"What would you do if you see
the whole Cosmos?"

SPACE WOLF

"Hey, my friend, wait for me!"-
shouted my mate Papalardi
from the fifth planet.

He wanted to hunt Lucichero-
space wolf and light eater.
(Everyday the beast
was gulping a few rays,
while the artificial suns
we had built to lure him
didn't tempt him at all.)

I was a little afraid of Lucichero,
he was very dangerous,
so I descended in time
(though I anticipated that Papalardi
will look for me).

I stopped, looked at me and laughed:
I became a baby again!

"Hey, my friend!"-
Papalardi suddenly shouted
from the cradle.
(He had colored diapers
and his feeding bottle
had slipped from his mouth.)
"Do you know that
a day after tomorrow
Lucichero swallowed a knotty ray
which stuck in his throat
and he had a fatal shock?"

-from Spaceman
Sazartinus' Diary - Cosmopoems (1995)
by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(with illustrations by Mircea Muresanu)-