~ 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 * * * * * * * * * Image ~ Stars Forming Like Pearls in a Clam ~ The outer ridge of this photo resembles a clam shell where pearls are formed, but instead, stars are being born… Credit: License: CC0 Public Domain ~ Nona Lohr has released this “Stars Forming Like Pearls In A Clam” image under Public Domain license… https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Info and image ~ Feeling the strain (ESA)… https://esahubble.org/images/potw1134a/ Info ~ NGC 2146, a starburst galaxy in Camelopardalis (Anne’s Astronomy News)… http://annesastronomynews.com/photo-gallery-ii/galaxies-clusters/ngc-2146-by-ken-crawford/ Image explanation ~ This celestial region was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Quote from ‘Hamlet, by’ William Shakespeare: What a piece of work is a man (Wikipedia)… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What a piece of work is a man Pandora’s box (Wikipedia)… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s box Info and image ~ Hubble Spots Squabbling Galactic Siblings… https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-spots-squabbling-galactic-siblings Image explanation ~ A dramatic triplet of galaxies takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which captures a three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… The Planets (2019 TV series) ~ 5 episodes ~ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Planets (2019 TV series) Info ~ The Planets is a 2019 BBC/PBS television documentary series about the Solar System presented by Professor Brian Cox in the UK version and Zachary Quinto in the US version
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 - Harley, congratulations on another brilliant poem!!!
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * The poem is a rondel, which is a fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 14 lines in three stanzas (2 quatrains followed by a sestet) in which the first two lines of the first stanza are repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
~ 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!
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Image and info ~ Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula… https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2009/05/2464-Image.html From “Endymion” ~ poem by John Keats (1818)… https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44469/endymion-56d2239287ca5 Image and info ~ Planetary Nebula NGC 2818 from Hubble (APOD)… https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140713.html Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass)
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