Eye of God or Ring Nebula Deep Field

Image courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the Day (LINK at Bard on the Run)




Eye of God or Ring Nebula Deep Field

Fireworks and music
implosions and explosions
in Lyra's constellation

and the night drawn down
at the speed of light
the quick kiss and then
the complete shut-down

and soon the waves upon the shore
and are all gone
and one more star and all her children
are no more

2,000 light years distant
and gone
to the ultra violet
gone
to the infra red
gone
to our sensitive instruments
detecting atomic symphony of hydrogen
and gas flung
to the far flung
distance

but Lyra's star is seriously gone,

gone,
gone,
gone

like a vanished bell
in a war
shot from a cannon
and finally
gone
forever.


But Lyra's star repeats
there is no forever
only the moment
of the first word
repeated

fiat-lux

for then
gravity reassembles
from the atomic

and then there is the will
to shine out again
to sing an old familiar song
which comes from the round
molecular tones
of the new star
and the water music
in the the music
of hydrogen
and so there will roar forth
another blast of heavenly
dragon's breath

and the miraculous music
of life!
will be renewed
and will continue
to be forever
reborn

in the lyric
and the music
of Lyra's exploded sun.

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gw2009