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Sonnet on Time

By Harley White posted 12-26-2021 06:37

  


Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch


Sonnet on Time

 
 
Is time a spiral stairway that we climb
Whose unendingness we seek to borrow
To the last wrought syllable of our rhyme
Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow—
The fusion of the future with the past
In dizzying dimensions ever new
Which hurl us headlong in a void so vast
That what we view as false appears as true?
We must peer through bars forever blocking
Upon the threshold of our promised land—
At the gates of eternity knocking—
Outside we stand— albeit hand in hand.
     Through the rush of time we’re ceaselessly swirled.
     How heartless is the transience of this world!
 
 
~ Harley White
 
 
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Some sources of inspiration were the following…
 
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ~ from: William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_and_tomorrow_and_tomorrow
 
Tangled Up in Spacetime (Scientific American)…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tangled-up-in-spacetime/
 
Image ~ ESO’s VLT reveals the Carina Nebula’s hidden secrets…
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1208a/
 
Image explanation ~ This broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. Several well-known astronomical objects can be seen in this wide field image: to the bottom left of the image is one of the most impressive binary stars in the Universe, Eta Carinae, with the famous Keyhole Nebula just adjacent to the star. The collection of very bright, young stars above and to the right of Eta Carinae is the open star cluster Trumpler 14. A second open star cluster, Collinder 228 is also seen in the image, just below Eta Carinae. The Carina Nebula also bears the NGC 3372 designation. On this image, North is up and East is to the left…
 
Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch
 
 
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