Stuck next to the fax machine with escape
in my hand – a Visual Universe Dictionary
presenting an overhead view of our lovely
galaxy in yellow in blue
With white spiral arms protecting the centre
lovingly – our solar system hiding within the
Arm of Orion while being persecuted by
Perseus as well as Centaurus
And preceded by Sagittarius – then the most
beautiful illustration of the whole universe
that began in a yellow explosion, a fireball
of hot gas expanding for
One million years, followed by a dark cloud
of dust and gas, condensing into protogalaxies,
a universe delineated in a purple sphere
indicating how it would have appeared
Five billion years after the Big Bang; quasars
containing Black Holes appearing as shiny
white dots, galaxies spiralling and spinning,
then a bigger sphere to represent
Today’s universe – some twenty billion years
after the beginning in an explosion; gravity being
the loving glue binding galaxy clusters together
for ever - in a magical crystal sphere
As well as a microwave map of cosmic radiation
in dark and pale blue, with pink and red added in
proof of the Big-Bang hypothesis through the
existence of cool radiation
Streaming equally from all directions
in support of mainstream scientists’
speculative theory of cosmology…
hello Alice...i like your modern poetry, the blackholes, the big bang...the radiation...when combine..it speak of modern day...but i found theory of microwave very useful...though it dont produce fire..it allowed the molecules to rub with its other..to produce heat..i like microwave..but i dont want to be sucked by blackholes :) and my star is Scorpio
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I would like to translate this poem
Your poem about Astronomy is simple amazing, so technical and full of feeling, simultaneosly. I should read more of your poems. :)