The protoplanetary phase
of nebulae sidereal
occurs in astral later days
before the stage ethereal
when cloud impressions like Monets
create new star material.
At edge of inky Coalsack cloud,
nebula Caldwell Ninety-nine,
amidst the murk of dusty shroud,
PPN stellar redesign
with brilliance beauteous endowed
near verge of Coalsack's borderline
was seen by Hubble shining bright
as thrust through atramentous dark
in cryptic interstellar sleight
of hand by cosmic Matriarch,
who lavishes great Nature's light
of vital sun with living spark.
Our Mother Earth her watch shall keep
o'er woodlands wild and oceans deep
the river vales and mountains steep,
o'er stately swans and eagles' sweep.
The laughing brooks on hillsides leap,
though loons lament while willows weep.
Still humankind seems sound asleep
to deeds they sow and what they'll reap.
Yet mindless soils of mires and mucks
can sprout a forget-me-not plot,
as in the constellation Crux
that PPN midst sooty spot
is blossoming per starry flux
from out the caliginous clot.
This vision in our Milky Way,
might it portend scenario
of what in years, some millions, may
be future for the Coalsack's woe
of present dark, when stardust stray
will coalesce and set aglow
with brightness all the ‘nuggets coal'
in ebon Coalsack, so they flare
from gravity's attractive role
in grand combustions here and there,
as if were touched by flame the whole
until illumined everywhere?
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