Night Watch

search for oddities
into space and time we squeeze
eons can be seen
through highly polished mirrors
on bitter cold night so clear

'The Accident' morphs
dim mysterious brown dwarf
skimming stellar turf
leaving possibilities 
constitutes dark energies

lustrous Milky Way
is where we reside today
facing come what may
dusty gas, huge black holes hide
where galactic center glides

interstellar bliss
where supernovas exist
fireworks not to miss
proves the cosmos are alive
eternity will survive

for the non-earth bound
cosmic microwave background
has now hung around
over fourteen billion years
since Great Expansion appeared

sky watching sessions
cosmic history lessons
answering questions
when the universe was born
how our galaxy was formed

sitting in the dark
with conditions often stark
tracing heaven's arc
watching the vast cosmos flow
where true dreamers choose to go

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David Kavanagh

Date: 1/12/2022 3:02:00 AM

Your Tankas NG offer to shed a light into the cusp of our understandings of our cosmos, I cannot argue any of these observations, accidents can be explained by the very fact information cannot be destroyed, James Webb will definitely pose more questions, and some answers, all this aside your poetic form is faultless, Readers are missing out on your exceptional talent, you really should enter contests, for greater exposure, cheers David