THE EAGLE'S CHILD Nancy Jean Carrigan
2 S. 526 Williams Road
Warrenville, IL 60555
2 S. 526 Williams Road
Warrenville, IL 60555
THE EAGLE'S CHILD
On seeing Internet pictu taken by the Hubble telescope of the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula*
I saw, with my astonished eyes
a story told in ancient light--
celestial birth in distant skies
as our Sun-star once took flight.
This nameless star, egg-like it grew
in dull galactic primal dust
until it left the womb as new
stars and poems always must.
Has it, like Sun, a circling globe
with sea-fish, bird, and dexterous ape
who'se built a clever eye to probe
our mysteries? Does her mind escape
its bounds to ponder ancient light
and move a poet's pen to write?
©1998 Nancy Jean Carrigan
On seeing Internet pictu taken by the Hubble telescope of the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula*
I saw, with my astonished eyes
a story told in ancient light--
celestial birth in distant skies
as our Sun-star once took flight.
This nameless star, egg-like it grew
in dull galactic primal dust
until it left the womb as new
stars and poems always must.
Has it, like Sun, a circling globe
with sea-fish, bird, and dexterous ape
who'se built a clever eye to probe
our mysteries? Does her mind escape
its bounds to ponder ancient light
and move a poet's pen to write?
©1998 Nancy Jean Carrigan
Thank you Nancy
The Eagle Nebula
