Valentin and Dorian,

Thanks so much for letting us know about this! I'm really touched that this great section of Astropoetry to the International Year of Astronomy is dedicated to AWB. That means it's dedicated to all astronomers around the world who feel a connection with each other, just as you describe it.

Of course, I am personally really pleased that 100 Hours of Astronomy earned praise through poetry. Let it be an inspiration for GAM and beyond as well. If it can inspire poetic work like this then there is no limit!

Clear skies and friendship,

Mike

In January 2009, at UNESCO in Paris, we had the chance to meet Mike Simmons and to see his lecture on Astronomers Without Borders and the magnificent exhibition of The World At Night.
-We related about those events in
SARM at UNESCO-IAU-IYA under the Sign of Galileo
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/sarmatunescoiauiyagalilei/

Afterwards, very impressed by the extraordinary 100 Hours of Astronomy project and the ideals of AWB (to unite sky lovers, amateurs and professionals, from all over the world, and to make them give their best for astronomy and the large public), the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) tried to add its own contribution to the International Year of Astronomy, mirrored in the 15th pages of the international project
Astropoetry to the International Year of Astronomy
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/

As a form of gratitude, we dedicated the largest chapter of this project to AWB, at the 4th Quarter page
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/4th.html

And we end this message with the complete variant of
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s
Hymn to 100 Hours of Astronomy


FROM GALILEO TO 100 HOURS OF ASTRONOMY

Life in the Cosmos has scopes
Better seen through telescopes!


AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TELESCOPES

80 telescopes, sky meanings,
And incalculable feelings!


24-HOUR GLOBAL STAR PARTY

So much shine! How happy we are!
Today the Earth is quite a star!


100HA JUNIOR

Children and a telescope,
Closer dreams and much more hope.


100 HOURS OF REMOTE ASTRONOMY

Telescopes, computers, and skies.
Here and there, us, superior eyes.


SUN DAY

To the glory of Sun Day,
Sunspots are quiet. O.K.!!!


THE LEGACY OF 100HA

The certain way for human flight:
A future richer in starlight.


We wish all of you to have a Happy Astronomical Year 2010,
Valentin Grigore and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe