The Seven Samurai Poem by Margaret Alice

The Seven Samurai mapped peculiar galaxy motion
diverging from Hubble flow
in the Milky Way vicinity
caused by gravitation from clusters nearby

The Local Galaxy Group is streaming towards
the Virgo cluster - together forming the Local Supercluster
pulled sideways by one such another:
Hydra-Centaurus

These two Superclusters together
are rushing towards an even greater mass –
a profusion of galaxies called the Great Attractor -
a gargantuan structure!

Then the Seven Samurai reached its heart
where galaxies started to flow
in an opposite direction - back to the Milky Way
and the Wheel of Life is complete

So the poet and visionary
visualise the spherical motion
while the philosophers speculate about
its great symbolism!