The year the Church exploded East
from West, one heavenly body
collapsed, majestically. A daystar blazing
like a Venus, now milky veiled and nebulous.
We see it there, between Taurean horns
a mighty, pulsing heart, its neutron core
still polarising crab-like, particles of ore

38 thoughts on “Supernova”

1. Brilliant paring of the Great Schism and the Crab Nebula!

   1. a happenstance or maybe a consequential event!

      1. Poetry!

         1. ❤

   2. Hear, hear! Masterful, I’d say! ❤

      ~David

      1. I really appreciate your saying David

2. I love this, Laura! I couldn’t quite get the history into mine. So beautifully crafted!

   1. thank you Merril and for the prompt – great minds eh!?

      1. You’re very welcome, Laura. 😉

3. Such great images. I love your take on the prompt.

   1. thanks Dwight – major happenings in tandem

      1. You are welcome.

4. A stunning supernova, Laura! I love the intertwining threads of history and astronomy, and the daystar ‘milky veiled and nebulous’.

   1. many thanks Kim – they intertwined themselves

      1. You’re most welcome, Laura.

5. A most exquisite supernova, Laura! I love “a daystar blazing like a Venus, now milky veiled and nebulous.” ❤️❤️

   1. many thanks Sanaa – appaently for 1 month was seen in the day sky and the Chinese called it ‘the guest star’

6. What a spectacular sight this is. Love the heavenly body, the daystar blazing like a Venus.

   1. thank you Grace – now I see the mirroring of heavenly body and Venus besides the daystar phenomenon

7. Written by a dedicated sky gazer.

   1. thanks Lisa – a fascinated viewer though the science still baffles

      1. You’re welcome, Laura.

8. As beautiful as the nebula itself. (K)

   1. thank you Kerfe – such very nice words

9. HI Laura, this is really lovely.

   1. much appreciated Roberta

      1. My pleasure, I can’t comment on your latest tribute poem to Sarah. It is very touching.

         1. I did not manage to do one in time but am thinking of a future OLN instead

            1. I also didn’t manage to write on time.

               1. not too late now as the time has been extended

                  1. Okay, I feel I can’t write for this particular prompt right now. My aunt is very ill in hospital so the topic is just too hard.

10. A fabulous masterclass in interwining history with astronomy in just 44 words!

    1. yes it was rather a lot to fit the quadrille so many thanks for such praise

       1. My pleasure, Laura.

11. “its neutron core still polarising crab-like”: a brilliant image that works on multiple levels, Laura. Some fracturing events, still ongoing, seem written in the stars.

    1. thank you -yes a supernova metaphor as well Dora!

12. An interesting presentation for you to do. I’m getting more and more tuned to the “revelations” of a secular understanding, which has a whole lot to say about who and what we are. Even the parts we don’t understand have meaning too.

    1. church history, astronomy, physics – I’m interested in all from the novice’s perspective

       p.s. have begun reading Revelations recently!

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