by Bob Eklund, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

My North Star, hid by
Blue sky, cloud, or murky night --
Incredibly there.

By Michele Bannister, Australia.


I wrought the nets that cage the finflicks of strange attractors,
incite the end of all scattered planets, fireflung into frost:
this rime that rims the outer worlds
owes all care to all my computation; the more bodies I add the better
though always it lacks neatly-nailed resolution.

By Laura and Bob Eklund, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.


Leaves of the birch tree
Wiggle in the late-day Sun
On Easter Sunday.

Poem by Bob Eklund (USA). Image by Johannes Stübler (Austria)

By Andrew Fraknoi


Astropoetry Blog readers may be interested in an article about teaching astronomy using poetry from the journal Astronomy Education Review, on the web at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2001009

For the article, “Astronomy & Poetry: A Resource Guide,” published online in Astronomy Education Review, 8 April 2002, see: http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/AERSCZ-ft/vol_1/iss_1/114_1.html



Andrew Fraknoi, Chair, Astronomy Program
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, USA

Moon, Jupiter and Venus over (Dracula’s) Tower Chindia, Targoviste, Romania.

Photo: Valentin Grigore.
Haiku: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe.
Design: Alexandru Sebastian Grigore

Tower Chindia was built in the 15th century in Targoviste and belonged for
a while to Vlad Tepes (the Impaler) Draculea, a Romanian ruler, a knight of
justice and a hero of Christianity, who, through nocturnal attacks, forced
the army of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (who had conquered Constantinople
in 1453) to retreat from the Romanian Land in 1462.

Later, Western commercial interests transformed Vlad Tepes Draculea into a
vampire called Dracula.

By Aprilia Ariel, Polyxeni Lianou, Greece (20 March 2012)

Winter bet with spring and lost.
So, here comes the vernal equinox.
It smells like spring.
It feels like peace.

By Bob Eklund, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (20 March 2012)


Molecules of air
Scatter blue and pass the red
For tonight’s sunset.