For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (140): Inertia (13)

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Published: Saturday, July 04 2020 22:55

 PENUMBRAL FANTASY

Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Bucharest, June 5, 2020,
under a penumbral lunar eclipse.

I flew to the Moon
in a super-plane.

I made a small house there
and planted some red roses
in my secret territory
(which imitates earthly life
under a transparent capsule),
then I returned to my planet
with a space locomotive.

I pitied the Moon here
for such a modest penumbra
and I thanked Mother Earth
because she gave me a full shadow.

But finally
the naughty Moon put a crown
around her
and knocked me down.