5, 500 light years
From Earth
Milky Way
Galactic hearth
Where stars surcease
And resurrect
On the nebula bay
Cosmic ocean craters
In vast array
Created by
Immense radiation eruption
Causing
Supernova explosion
HII NGC
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HII NGC
6357
Stripped of electrons
From hydrogen atoms
In Cosmic Cataclysm
Ionized hydrogen clouds
In the constellation Scorpius
A grandeur display