The Hubble Ullyses Poem by Harley White

Blind Homer, Greek poet, who saw beyond sight,
composed the great epic, the Odyssey tale
of Odysseus, Latin Ulysses, quite
iconic as hero, in ten-year travail

who strove in voyage legendary in scope
to find his way home after decade-long war
‘midst obstacles monstrous, past limits of hope
through thick and through thin to his Ithaca shore.

ULLYSES, here acronym for Hubble plan
of Legacy Library of astrals young,
is studying two fledgling star types in scan,
both super-hot, massive and blue ones unsung

as yet, such as in thirty Doradus zone
or Tarantula Nebula within Cloud
the Large Magellanic as region is known
ultraviolet light lit thus to unshroud

energetic processes of stars just made
in high-resolution views newly displayed,
by dear Mother Nature in cosmic brocade,
with applauding stargazers in accolade.

Emissions like these by this Hubble highlight
the hottest material at least in part
like vast spatial window or maybe skylight,
through building a dataset state of the art.

This input astronomers will provide aid
in learning how stars form and of their makeup;
to attain this, various factors are weighed
that perhaps may bring about call for wake up

to new information that yet we may glean
plus even concerning ourselves, since we are,
though seldom acknowledged and often unseen,
each fashioned of fabric begot from a star,

which brings us back home to the beings that we
of all possibilities happen to be
on planet that suits earthly life to a T
and seems truly rare in the universe sea…

Yet wonder on wonder seems still to unfold
in endless immenseness of marvels untold.
How many amazements might still we behold
ere way of all flesh leaves our beingness cold?