astropoetica

Astropoetica: Mapping the Stars through Poetry.

Clickable Star Chart, each constellation was granted by an original poem

Clickable Star Chart: Galactic South. click on the link to get in to the poetic path. by clicking on the map it will take you to different poems dedicated to a star.

here is one:

Apus by Johann Bayer

In the nooks of the darkness somebody has prepared a trap the people's hopes hardly flicker like some fragile stars hung by an insectarium

beyond the dreams it raises splitting the darkness

the Bird of Paradise