I am the Pishashee

This is fantastic! N it has a celestial feel to it, you are
from  the stars huh? Ok then may I wish upon you? lol

Poetik, thank you! It is the celestial atmosphere that we all come from.

the last frontier. so many discoveries to be made...

I look up at the night sky and I do see you...wonderful and captivating :)

What an honor for me to be in contact with such a extraordinary being from the sky! Very nice writing, Pishashee! Wonderful!!!

There was a cloud of gas spinning – this is how all solar systems begin.  There are grains of ice; hydrogen (frozen gas) forming rock..   The term Accretion disc comes into play and gravitational attraction and growth in mass and there is a nucleus now; a protosun.  Swirling in a disc following laws of angular momentum, the rock and ice grains collide and stick together to form planetesimals.  The planetesimals themselves collided and stick together to from planets.   There are intense solar winds that blow away the excess gas and other debris that’s not incorporated into the planets, forming asteroid belts.     And so after about 30 million years, with its internal temperature heated by gravitational compression, this protosun becomes sufficient for fusion reactions to occur within its hydrogen content, the protosun then becomes a star.    All stars die, even our own sun; it is a part of life far beyond our own.  This is one of the reasons that evolution is not immediately obvious – it moves so slowly.   What is going on inside of the sun, now a main-sequence star, is nuclear fusion - billions of small hydrogen bombs exploding at the rate of Chinese laundry being hung; the hydrogen is being converted to helium.  The reactions that convert hydrogen to helium are not the only ones that take place in the sun and other stars with hydrogen and helium as raw materials and high temperatures and pressures to make things happen, most of the others elements are formed as well.  But the heaviest elements require still more extreme conditions to be produced; conditions that occur during a supernova explosion of heavy stars.  Explosions like that serve to scatter into space  - the various elements already created in a parent star.  Once scattered, these elements; heavy and light, mix with the hydrogen and helium of interstellar space - and in turn, in turn, and in turn, and turn; new solar systems, new stars and supernovas  at the constant rate of infinity and beyond.  Iron nuclei have high binding energies per nucleon, and so is exceptionally stable – thus iron being a relatively abundant element.  We are all made of stardust

The star dust reference for me comes from Carl Sagan, and I do believe that it was Dr. Sagan that coined the phrase  It is Dr. Neil degrasse Tyson that today it’s most noted to, because of the popularity of a small video clip, which is no surprise because he is the best known successor of Carl Sagan.  They knew each other.  I’ll leave you that short clip here.  The video comes from an interview, and then someone clipped that part of the interview and set it to music.   It means that once upon a time, the atoms in your body were the brimming light and heavy elements that were being synthesized within the stars – long before the earth had ever formed. The star stuff analogy gives you a spectrum of how far we've come as elements.   You've heard the term many times that we have come far, or the road is long; on and on and on – can we really bring that into perspective and actualize it.  We are all made of stardust    
   
The Most Astounding Fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU  
   
   
Thank you Jack for your awesome read on this poem.  I used to have this explanation on my profile, but I'll share it with you here:    
   
"As a little girl was playing one day with her white frock over her head, she was laughingly called Pishashee; the name which the Indians had given to their white devil. The child was delighted with so fine a name, and ran about the house crying out to every one she met; I am the Pishashee. Would she have done so if she had been wrapped in black - and called a witch or a devil? The reality is the nothing, it is innocent, but everything is the sound and the color. " (Guesses at Truth)

Jack, If you were standing on the pillars of creation and looking to your left, which direction would you face - keep in mind the vantage point.  ;)

I guess it boils down to this: the atoms in your body were once the brimming light and heavy elements that were being synthesized within the stars – long before our earth had ever formed.  But Neil degrasse Tyson's short clip is awe inspiring.  I apologize if I made it more confusing than it is - but its a good study nonetheless.   
    
    
The question was just for fun:  The pillars of creation always bring up truth in direction in outer space for me - that is if there is any.  It only gets the gears turning.  It's hard to take away the earth as the vantage point and put yourself there - that is 7,000 light-years from Earth.  That distance means that if you are looking at it through a telescope, what you're actually seeing is 7,000 years in the past because that is how long the light has traveled to reach your seeing eye - but that's all beside the point and I don't want to get side tracked, as interesting as that is(the speed of light is weird phenomena and can warp your mind if your not careful..If the speed of light were any faster, we’d have the effect before the cause and you cannot pull the horse with the buggy...:)   But anyway, if you were there on pillars of creation and looking left, it may very well be that you are seeing to your right, and if you were looking straight ahead, it could be plausible that you are looking at the back of your head.  "Projection"   If you have to time to ponder anymore, look up Newton's cannonball.  

I absolutely love this!! It is dreamy and curious and ethereal. I am floating on your words.

I'm so glad. :)  I truly thank you for your gracious comments.

Very deep... well done...

really appreciate
the read; cheers. :)

I love the exchanges with Jack Tex. :)

The Atlanteans.  :D))))  

thank you so much for that.  :)

It sounds maudlin and sentimental, as Carl Sagan would say,  :D  But it’s this atmosphere that I return to, sometimes, to remind myself how strong I am, how far I’ve come, and how wonderful life can be.  

Right on. I love the unique souls I am encountering here, but I think we understand each other. :)