Exploding Stars

Exploding stars vomit gold halos 
Before all landscapes conceived; 
Rolled the ash  of great gases 
Into seeds with molten cores.

Pressed space within crowds of hot mass; 
An orbital nest turbulent and safe, 
Tumbling as a unit, 
forgetful of Mother Galaxy 
And the seed of a seed it is.

Love of gravity spirally embraced: 
A huge collection beyond effervesce. 
Boiling dark dust nebula; 
Blood from a mother's hidden heart.

Simple matter pulses through the arms 
Laying back to momentum's ancient intrusion,
Compounding beyond iron's confusion, 
Resting again in leaded serenity.

Layers gather crust, and smooth over; 
As always from a hot core change emerges:
Atmospheres and oceans swirling captured 
In a flowing equilibrium.

An experiment of circumstance, 
Small enough to contain the flow, 
Begins with a common cosmic flash: 
A signal to escape into complexity.

Frogs leap from the algae 
Into a desert cracked with moist mazes, 
Rimmed with feathered promises 
Whispered quietly in the purpose of instinct.

Petroglyphs in lost caverns 
Follow evolution's progress 
Through one chance taken 
In a deck of aces.

The game goes on with numbers, 
Breathing atoms of Plato's breath. 
Helpless as an ameba. 
Sure as any chance.
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