Dazzling Cosmic Diamonds

By Harley White posted 01-03-2022 06:50

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Credit: NASA & ESA, Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia)

Dazzling Cosmic Diamonds

The ‘saw’ that ‘a diamond is forever’
arises from ad that links up romance
and marriage, in the slogan’s endeavor
to tie them together for sales’ advance.

Some spend exorbitant sums on those rocks
and make an enormous ado of them,
yea opening up a Pandora’s box
although it might mean the ruin of them.

In popular culture diamonds became
almost paeans of praise for affluence.
But more so than those, the cosmos can claim
its treasures far greater in opulence

of diamond-like visions adorning skies
abundant in glittering jewelry,
above and beyond, for stargazing eyes
uncoupled from Mankind’s tomfoolery.

Within the Carina nebula lies
star cluster Trumpler Fourteen, which is home
to some of the stars most massive in size
and brightest as well midst the stellar foam

of Milky Way, the galaxy gather
resembling a band of light in its look
from Earth, where dreamers would ofttimes rather
seek wonders celestial than have to brook

what goes on here— call that going or on?—
albeit our feet must be grounded still
until the day breaks of our final dawn,
for yet we may manifest what we will…

It’s young in its growth, the Trumpler Fourteen;
that’s why there are so many brilliant stars
in astro-scape of impressionist mien,
like crystalline gemstones at craft bazaars.

Around forty light-years in span, they say,
about nine thousand light years far away,
those youthful sidereals on display
at edge of Carina (ship’s keel) cloud spray,

blue-white in the cluster, frenziedly burn
their hydrogen fuel, till stellar churn
from burst supernovae leads them to earn
a novel cyclical starry return.

No, diamonds cannot forever endure
regardless of how long they’re said to last,
yet somehow, somewhere in regions obscure
each star is recast in the endless vast.

Thus ‘death shall have no dominion’ in space,
for stars may be born again and again,
as each Earth morn wears a different face
or lyrics begotten from poet’s pen.

While some quantum theorists think there’s more
to consciousness in the cosmical plot,
we’ll seemingly never know what’s in store
further than dying, illusion or not.

Could multiverses continue truly
a sort of survival for such as we
that cause and effect engender duly?
Is that what is happening and to be?

A myriad maybes gleam in my mind
in firmament heavens auriferous,
as vaultings ethereal intertwined
bedazzle with diamonds stelliferous.

If I had a fistful of stars to hurl
as wishes high into the skyey blue,
I’d follow the flight of their wistful swirl
and hope beyond hope that they might come true.

~ Harley White

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Some sources of inspiration were the following…

“And Death Shall Have No Dominion” ~ poem by Dylan Thomas (1933)…

“Illusion of Death” ~ ‘In the Quantum Universe We Exist Indefinitely’…
https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/07/illusion-of-death-in-the-quantum-universe-we-exist-indefinitely-as-soul-holiday-feature/

Image and info ~ Young Star Cluster Trumpler 14 from Hubble (APOD)…
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190514.html

Image and info ~ Trumpler 14 at NASA Hubble Site…
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/03/3693-Image.html

Image and info ~ Trumpler 14 by Hubble (Wikipedia)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trumpler_14_by_Hubble.jpg

Explanation: Star cluster Trumpler 14 has so many bright stars because it is so young. It spans about 40 light-years and lies about 9,000 light years away on the edge of the Carina Nebula. A discerning eye can spot two unusual objects in this image of Trumpler 14 by the Hubble Space Telescope. First, a dark cloud just left of center may be a planetary system trying to form before being destroyed by the energetic winds of Trumpler 14’s massive stars. Second is the arc at the bottom left, which one hypothesis holds is the supersonic shock wave of a fast star ejected 100,000 years ago from a completely different star cluster.

Credit: NASA & ESA, Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia)

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