~ Harley White
Yet some unmindful souls will throw their fate into uncharted flow by stepping out of common thread to find their feet where others fled ere death unbidden would bestow a leap beyond. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is a rondeau… Image ~ Cat Star Sky Moon ~ Public Domain Pictures Net… https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?
1 Comment - Harley, your poem is really beautiful!
Oh what marvels we’re perceiving in the wondrous skies thereof! . . ~ Harley White
~ Harley White . . *********
And yet when all ‘our revels end’ this world will leave a stardust blend behind, ‘to still a beating mind’ of poet bards midst humankind, a ‘rack’, or wisp of cloud, as told in Prospero’s discourse of old; for sun shall take its final breaths, as dramatized in stellar deaths, to be a nebula newborn celestial heavens to adorn in evermore creation’s dawn— yea ‘such stuff as dreams are made on’… ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ~ From ‘The Tempest’, Act 4 Scene 1… https://www.bardweb.net/content/readings/tempest/lines.html William Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’, Act 3, Scene 1… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To be, or not to be Image ~ Starry, Starry Night ~ NASA https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/starry-starry-night Image explanation ~ The Hubble Space Telescope captured a crowd of stars known as Messier 107, which is one of more than 150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way galaxy
1 Comment - I wonder what Shakespeare would think of the world situation today? Harley, congratulations on another brilliant poem!!!
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