Draco

[tailor STATELY]

Started out as a minimalist entry but the poem sprouted wings.

ref: Dark Muse's picture on 8-16-2010 (Picture): http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50408&page=13 (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50408&page=13)

@ Dark Muse: If you wish I will remove your picture from this page.

Feedback welcome (forgive me the esoterica).

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Draco



The Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy

or so it's called astronomically

Wheels around our Milky Way

red shifted at a distance of LY 260K

And if you judge time in terms of eternity

it makes its circuit in only one day

But what of Draco's dark matter halos

entombed in its puzzle of stellar densities ?

Perhaps when Draco hatches then will we know

when we watch the red Dragon fly away



9/11/2010

© tailor STATELY

A help: "red shifted at a distance of LY 260K"
read as: red shifted at a distance of L-Y two-sixty K

[dafydd manton]

Tell it not in Gath, but the name is a giveaway - in reality it is a red dragon, wings folded, its front right claw raised, waiting.......waiting......

[angliholic]

Very imaginative and creative!
I like it!
Thanks, Stately!

[tailor STATELY]

LOL. Thank you dafydd.

Let me see: Red shift going away, blue shift coming toward - so if the intrinsic spectra of a massive object is (?)... never mind. A red dragon it is !

Thank you angliholic.

[Delta40]

and if you judge time in terms of eternity... excellent

[PrinceMyshkin]

Lovely bit of metaphysical star-gazing. Thanks.

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you PrinceMyshkin & Delta40.

I'm still struggling with L8. Best I should sleep on it. G'night. Hey, the sun's up!

[Haunted]

How you expressed eternity in one day and the idea of a puzzle:
"entombed in its puzzle of stellar densities"
I found it quite thought provoking.

Go get some sleep. Draco will still be here when you wake up :)

[hillwalker]

The beauty of matter that quite possibly no longer exists by the time we get to see it - I enjoyed this even though the astro-science got in the way rather.

And as you say, poems do tend to take on a life of their own as they expand like a newly emerging galaxy.

H :-)

[tailor STATELY]

@ Haunted - Thank you ! Yes, a few ideas mulled over, and a change or two made.

@ hillwalker -
The beauty of matter that quite possibly no longer exists by the time we get to see it The universe is truly wondrous. Just think of what we miss. (hey! there's my minimalist moment !!! - copies/pastes and finishes remarks before toddling off to Dark Muse's minimalist thread later.)


- I enjoyed this Thank you !


... even though [tailor STATELY's shoulders slump] the astro-science got in the way rather.Too true, hence my apology for the 'esoterica'. Science and religion and metaphysics, after all, are subjective to most.

Note to tailor STATELY: remember: "remember your audience"; (tongue in cheek): I'm thinking 'bunnies' next time - alert the RSPCA !... and here it is: Bunnies ! (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23577&page=30)

@ daffyd - A BIG thank you for your input (reread) re: a further edit to rid me of too many 'Draco' references ["still one too many ?" tailor STATELY queries himself - "does it read better ?" he asks the æther].

In a dark room, far-far away, cluttered with books and saved aluminium and plastics and nicked copper wire, tailor STATELY sits back and thinks: "Time for a pill". Addressing his antiquated eMonster 700k keyboard he opens a new tab in Opera to write a note on his iGoogle calendar to remind himself to schedule an appointment with his imaginary psychiatrist.