Celestial Inner Rings

By dint of a right in tatters impinging on terrestrial sight that urged me to worldly matters, I was struck with a parallel quite unforeseen, in a Hubble view which drew my fancy out of the blue, a galaxy wreathed with rings two unusual in such starry slew. Even one ring it’s said is rare much less a twosome around the heart, shown through telescope’s steady stare, from secular evolution’s part which played upon asymmetries.— The phraseology caught my eye. ‘Twas hard to miss analogies of checks and balances gone awry.— To proceed with the astral troop, counterintuitive to its look the ring further out in the group as if from some deceptive playbook has been titled the ‘inner ring’, in Horologium’s pendulum clock to measure the hourly swing with time’s onward ticking rule of thumb.— Back I come to the great dismay that’s caused when connivers pave their way in inner circle plots they lay and make other beings easy prey, these wily schemers power-mad who puff with pride over trumped-up scams, bloviators with falsehoods clad, devoid of compunctions, naught but shams.— But lest I leave impression wrong of scene sidereal seen on high, how could one fault a starry throng which follows the laws of how and why throughout infinitude of space, whether Mankind comprehends or not? (So few pursue enlightened grace within our insignificant slot.)— ‘Not from the stars,’ to quote the Bard, ‘do I my judgment pluck,’ ‘midst Shakespeare’s, wondrous wordings, which I regard as miracles of the uttered spheres, and ‘constant stars,’ to onward cite with altered drift, ‘in them I read such art’, ‘tis true, yet who else could write save he with awesomer master’s touch? A bar across the galaxy the inner and outer rings connect when glimpsed with closer scrutiny in the Hubble’s surveys circumspect. At center the nuclear band in terms of terminology used is easier to understand thus leaving my senses less bemused as to the cosmos I return to raise my gaze and poetic voice, along with those who likewise yearn, in praise of human freedom of choice while living out this mortal span of voyage to death’s uncharted shore from where our earthly life began to where it ends, unless there be more… ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * Some sources of inspiration were the following… “Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)”, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)… NGC 1512 (Wikipedia)… Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Inner Rings (APOD)…