NASA – Pillars of Creation
Hubble, 1995, Hester & Paul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula
THE EAGLE'S CHILD
Nancy
Jean Carrigan
2S526 Williams Rd., Warrenville, IL 60555,
630-393-1361
On
seeing Internet pictures taken
by the Hubble telescope of
the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula*
I saw, with my astonished eyes
a story told in ancient light--
celestial birth in distant
skies
as our Sun-star once took
flight.
This nameless star, egg-like
it grew
in dull galactic primal dust
until it left the womb as new
stars and poems always must.
Has it, like Sun, a circling
globe
with sea-fish, bird, and
dexterous ape
who'se built a clever eye to
probe
our mysteries? Does her mind
escape
its
bounds to ponder ancient light
and
move a poet's pen to write?
©1998 Nancy Jean Carrigan (used by permission)