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Stars in Bloom
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The stars in bloom are blushing bright
against the ebon of the night
like roses red for all to see
stelliferous florescently
to starry gazers great delight.
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They’re in galactic spiral quite
evocative of floral flight
of fancy in a madcap spree,
the stars in bloom.
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Oh may we learn illumined sight
to glimpse beyond the ‘wrong or right’
of worldly critical decree
to deeper depth reality
where dwell, like blossoms recondite,
the stars in bloom.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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A source of inspiration was the following…
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This Hubble image shows the galaxy NGC 972.
ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Ho
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in a spiral galaxy named NGC 972. The orange-pink glow is created as hydrogen gas reacts to the intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars; these bright patches can be seen here amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust. German-British astronomer William Herschel is credited with the discovery of NGC 972 in 1784. Astronomers have since measured its distance, finding it to be just under 70 million light-years away.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-watches-stars-in-bloom
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