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The More We Know

While novel revelations come and go, discoveries that shed uncharted light, the more we know the more there is to know. We seek to see into the heavens’ show with telescopes that stretch our earthly sight while novel revelations come and go plus suppositions pertinent although while seeming sapience to overwrite the more we know the more there is to know. Discoveries bring queries apropos, some theories rejected reignite, while novel revelations come and go. Sagacity in science may outgrow existing thought amongst the erudite. The more we know the more there is to know. How can we humans fathom cosmic flow? Infinity evades our senses’ flight. While novel revelations come and go, the more we know the more there is to know. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a villanelle… A source of inspiration was the following… The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument…

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