Poetry Thursday - poems about meteor showers

The annual International Meteor Conference has had an Astropoetry Event since 1997, which in 2009 resulted in a special web page of meteor poems from all over the world - illustrated, of course, with photographs of meteors. The page was put together by members of the Romanian Society of Meteor Astronomy.

If you've ever lain on the lawn in an August night, watching the Perseid meteor shower, you'll understand why people feel enthusiastic, even poetical, about meteors!

A magnitude 4 Perseid and a halo (photo by Valentin Grigore, Romania)

THE PERSEIDS
-by Marge Simon (U.S.A., 
Editor of Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association)-

We follow the fire
of Comet Swift-Tuttle
as lovers do
but she evades

like tears of Perseus
our myriad lights
paint the night skies
with unrequited love

Fireball on the Perseid maximum night 2009 (photo by Monica Dragan, Romania)

A MAD ASTRONOMICAL CLAIM
-by Alfredo Caronia (Italy, 
co-discoverer of 3 asteroids)-

Perseids
first in class
but not unique,
best sellers
of the astronomer's attention,
matter for evaluation
and media for reference,
model
in a ring
of almost monthly
rains,
sons
of a mother comet,
birth
from cosmic germs,
conventionally
classified
in periodical swarms;
meteors
are waiting
for a resolution
of a cosmic dispute,
concerning
the reservation
of a turn over,
in order to
obtain
the collocation
in a focal
issuing point,
in dynamic symbiosis
with a periodical comet,
grooving
and going
across
the constellation Ophiuchus,
the newborn
zodiacal
celestial body.