~ 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 * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Image and info ~ Caldwell 99 (NASA)… https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/caldwell-99 My poem: Stygian Nebula ~ AWB archive posting… https://archive.astronomerswithoutborders.org/awb-programs/arts-and-culture/astropoetry/item/stygian-nebula.html Explanation: This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * 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
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ~ from: William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Tangled Up in Spacetime (Scientific American)… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tangled-up-in-spacetime/ Image ~ ESO’s VLT reveals the Carina Nebula’s hidden secrets… https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1208a/ Image explanation ~ This broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope
’ ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Quotes: “Every day we know more and understand less.”
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… Image and info ~ This bizarre ‘superbubble’ spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope has scientists scratching their heads… https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-superbubble-nebula-image Image and info ~ Mysterious “Superbubble” Hollows Out Nebula in New Hubble Image… https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/mysterious-superbubble-hollows-out-nebula-in-new-hubble-image Image explanation ~ N44 is an emission nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages
Such sight stargazers can regale with more delight than ‘cakes and ale’ and guide us to a sense of worth in spark of human death and birth as yet we write our living tale within the flame… ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Image and info ~ Inside the Flame Nebula (Chandra X-ray)… https://www.nasa.gov/mission pages/chandra/multimedia/flame-nebula.html Explanation: The composite image shows one of the clusters, NGC 2024, which is found in the center of the so-called Flame Nebula about 1,400 light years from Earth
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… “The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light
~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… On the Antique Painting in Encaustic of Cleopatra, Discovered in 1818… http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?
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