Celestial String Of Pearls Poem by Harley White

In a Hubble bubble there's a pearly gate of blue
bridging ancient galaxies in stunning stellar view.
There we see the sky decked out in beaded cosmic bling
of a hundred thousand light-year curly pearly string.

Think of it! - It's wound around colossal merging hearts
of two galaxies colliding- such are astral arts.
Infant stars in super-clusters form a shining band
of a pearly necklace strung on filamented strand.

Blue-white gems along the chain, of which there are nineteen,
have three thousand light-year spaces lying in between.
This formation will remain a mere ten thousand years
in those arcs empyrean of Hubble bubble spheres.

Many are the fantasies these ornaments evoke.
Some are astronomical, and others quite baroque…
In what giant jewel casket are the treasures kept?
Might they be the teardrops that galactic eyes have wept?

In a Hubble bubble there's a pearly gate of blue
or a priceless necklace in the imaged point of view.
Do the heavens muse on Man's tumultuary worth,
as we fuss and frivol on our blue pearl Planet Earth?



(July 14,2014)