Cosmic Travails Poem by Harley White

The poem is in the form of a rondeau… A source of inspiration was the following… Hubble Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone… Explanation: Large Magellanic Cloud ~ Star Cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud… Hubble peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 (upper, left) . The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170,000 light-years away near the Tarantula nebula, one of the most active star-forming regions in our Local Group of galaxies. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)