Somewhere A Star Poem by Harley White
Somewhere A Star
A vast explosion in the sky
of supernova's great goodbye
is how immense celestials die.
Yet these demises have their worth
to aid perchance in future birth
of star to house a planet earth.
Our human species' vessel home
beneath the heavens' vaulted dome
is floating in a sea of foam
where we've been sailing safe and sound
with bubbles multiversed around,
so novel theories propound.
Thus in our ‘brane' with solar world
that's strung with particles unfurled
we dwell within dimensions curled,
as per this unifying stance
about the unbeknownst expanse
which hosts our mortal song and dance.
The firmament we peer into
plays hide and seek with what's in view
to shift with varied light anew.
When sets the sun at day's decline
and darkness shapes its redesign,
somewhere a star will show its shine.
Longfellow's classic epic said
that endless meadows overhead
would ‘one by one' in silence spread
their star ‘forget-me-not' arrays
of blossoms for the angels' gaze,
his lovely lines to paraphrase.
‘How countlessly they congregate',
wrote Robert Frost of stellar spate
that waits beyond the darkling gate!
Though death all life may underlie,
in cosmic twinkling of an eye
somewhere a star is born on high…
"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, / Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: ‘A Tale of Acadie'
First line of ‘Stars', by Robert Frost, from Robert Frost's ‘A Boy's Will',1915…
M-theory ~ Wikipedia…
Image ~ Hubble's panoramic view of a star-forming region…
Image description: 30 Doradus is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the most massive stars ever seen. The nebula resides 170 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. No known star-forming region in our galaxy is as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus… The image comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, combined with observations from the European Southern Observatory's MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope which trace the location of glowing hydrogen and oxygen… The image is being released to celebrate Hubble's 22nd anniversary.
Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI) , J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI) , N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich) , L. Bedin (INAF, Padua) , E. Bressert (ESO) , P. Crowther (Sheffield) , A. de Koter (Amsterdam) , C. Evans (UKATC/STFC, Edinburgh) , A. Herrero (IAC, Tenerife) , N. Langer (AifA, Bonn) , I. Platais (JHU)and H. Sana (Amsterdam)
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