Lake Of Light Poem by Harley White
Lake Of Light
There's a lake of luminescence
in this stunning Vela scene,
whose radiant nebula essence
resembles pool aquamarine.
Known as Eight-Burst or Southern Ring,
it's a striking look-alike
of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring,
where earthly nature-lovers hike.
While its stellar center has two,
the dim one is the painter
that imbued with art this astral view,
in the process growing fainter.
Having shed its layers wholly
in ultimate dying flow,
the cloud took on its aspect slowly
through bright fluorescent haloed glow.
Here inspired by the poet Yeats,
I glimpse a vision golden,
shown with hues of blue and ‘sea-green slates',
created by white dwarf olden.
Whether lake of water or light,
it awakens reverie
of finding peace in idyllic site
beyond what's deemed could ever be.
In dreams I'll arise and go there,
to celestial Innisfree,
and rest awhile in that airy lair,
midst stars as far as eyes can see.
Also, article ~ A Glowing Pool of Light: Planetary Nebula NGC 3132…
Imaging (NGC 3132)Through Filters ~ "Nature displays a remarkable economy of form as displayed on the left by the striking similarity of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring to the Hubble Heritage project's new rendering of NGC 3132."
In addition, inspiration derived from various poems by William Butler Yeats…
Image and explanation~ NGC 3132, also known as the Eight-Burst Nebula, the Southern Ring Nebula, is a bright and extensively studied planetary nebula in the constellation Vela. Its distance from Earth is estimated at about 550 pc. or 2,000 light-years.
It is the faint star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this planetary nebula. In this color picture, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the dim star. All that remains of the parent star is a collapsed, extremely hot, core. This white dwarf star emits large amounts of ultraviolet radiation causing the surrounding clouds of gas to glow through fluorescence much the same as a neon sign glows with its colorful light. This image is taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope using three different color filters. North is to the bottom left hand corner of this image. In the Heritage Team's rendition of the Hubble image, the colors were chosen to represent the temperature of the gases. Blue represents the hottest gas, which is confined to the inner region of the nebula. Red represents the coolest gas, at the outer edge. The Hubble image also reveals a host of filaments, including one long one that resembles a waistband, made out of dust particles which have condensed out of the expanding gases.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
I think you would be the one inspiring poet Yeats, the whole poem is just amazingly beautiful but the last three stanzas took my breath away, the last stanza could not have been more fitting my friend, this is one of your top poems, just amazing, I love it! ! ! My favorites list!
What a gratifying reaction! I am pleased beyond words that the nebula, Yeats, and I took your breath away! Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response!
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A beautiful and keen poem talking about beauty outer space...thanks for the info, so kind of you to explain and shared this and that made this poem really stand for its own beauty!
Thank you very much! I truly appreciate your reading and complimentary comment! I’m pleased that you enjoyed the supportive info as well. The cosmos is a great source of inspiration for me!