Cosmic Cliffs Of Carina Poem by Harley White

A fabulous fancied land which we
glimpse amidst a stelliferous sea
where cavern's been carved by hot young stars,
beyond our temporal prison bars,

though reminiscent of earthly home
bonneted by the firmament's dome,
seventy-six hundred light-years out,
abounds in new-found birth round about

of baby astrals at edge of place
that's NGC three three two four's space
in stunning state-of-the-art reveal,
residing in constellation ‘Keel'.

Carina has never looked clearer
with James Webb scope's primary mirror
of light collection zone at times six
the one developed for Hubble's pics.

This nebula was one of the first
of five cosmical objects dispersed,
a capture spectacular o'erspread
by Camera Webb Near-Infrared.

The image as ‘Cosmic Cliffs' is tagged,
a ‘mountainous range' appearing cragged,
in colorful panoramic scene
with sculpted peaks and ravines between.

It isn't a photograph of course
but rather derives from data source
visualized from units of light
or photons, attuned to human sight.

Nonetheless, such a fantasy land
as seem these majestic mountains grand
can urge a surge of reveries swept
to realms where poets have rarely stepped.

In stanza lines from Byron's ‘The Dream',
a lyric long which delves into theme
of sleep's eerie region, near the end,
the ‘Wanderer has become a friend

‘of Spirit quick of the Universe
with mountains, stars, forthwith to immerse
himself in dialogues deep to teach
the magic of their mysteries' reach.'

Material yet ethereal
are the ‘Cosmic Cliffs' empyreal
‘neath heavens' plethoric canopy
amongst the celestial panoply.

What embryonic star might fashion
a fate of stellar pride and passion,
create an orbiting planet world
where myriad presences are swirled?