~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is a pantoum… A pantoum is a poem in a fixed form, consisting of a varying number of four-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated to form the first and third lines of the succeeding stanza, with the first and third lines of the first stanza forming the second and fourth of the last stanza, but in reverse order, so that the opening and closing lines of the poem are identical
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a villanelle… A source of inspiration was the following… The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument… https://pdrs4all.org/pdrs4all-first-images-release/ Explanation: This composite image shows the inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a rondeau… A source of inspiration was the following… Info and image ~ Hubble Views a Not-So-Lonely Galaxy… https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-views-a-not-so-lonely-galaxy Explanation: Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can be deceiving
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in sonnet form… Some sources of inspiration were the following… ‘The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. … How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe?’
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a rondeau… A source of inspiration was the following… NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet… https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet Explanation: Webb’s image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe… This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * A source of inspiration was the following… Image and info ~ Lens Flair… https://esahubble.org/images/potw2229a/ Image explanation: This intriguing observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identification SGAS J143845+145407
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… From: “The Dream”, VIII., by George (Lord) Byron (1788-1824) “And made him friends of mountains: with the stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries; To him the book of Night was opened wide, And voices from the deep abyss revealed A marvel and a secret—Be it so.”
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space
~ 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!
At center the nuclear band in terms of terminology used is easier to understand thus leaving my senses less bemused as to the cosmos I return to raise my gaze and poetic voice, along with those who likewise yearn, in praise of human freedom of choice while living out this mortal span of voyage to death’s uncharted shore from where our earthly life began to where it ends, unless there be more… ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… “Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)”, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)… https://poets.org/poem/not-stars-do-i-my-judgment-pluck-sonnet-14 NGC 1512 (Wikipedia)… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC 1512 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Inner Rings (APOD)… https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220508.html Explanation: Most galaxies don’t have any rings -- why does this galaxy have two?
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