First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Forever dreams,
Of distant beams
Riding away,
Over slow decay

We know not,
The parting air

Of our despair
Of a silent sigh
And quiet –
Slow goodbye.

Receding crescent >>

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum (Yale University)

The frame of ghostly light within
Glowing, dark and cold
Sights its lonely, now begin,
Re-balanced, through its fold:

Our found, unnerved, deserted space
From sunken graves reborn
Sounds it’s brazen, silent chase
Through resplendent, scowls of scorn:

Of onward, slight, in downward cross
Unleashed, to fling its fight
Dons it’s shadow, echo loss
To a once, remembered light.

Finding unicorns >>

 

Hat Tip: “The House of Ghosts” – Margaret Widdemer

Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari, Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II)

twilight of milky sky’s,
after massive stars, in spark
may ever after sadness say farewell
as I depart
for throughout time and fractured space
the epic battles bear me far
I pray to see my masters face
as I depart for yonder bar.

Vela Supernova Remnant >>

 

Hat Tip: Alfred Lord Tenneyson – “Crossing the Bar”

Credit & Copyright: Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II); Processing: Utkarsh Mishra

O reflection,
The great purple witch rides this night
Untrusting, through prow or strength
Without safety of flight
For by glance, by wicked snare
Lies the darkend smile, of Rigel’s glare.

Cosmic crone >>

 

Hat Tip: James Weldon Johnson “The White Witch”