First Light Machine

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Kathy van Pelt

Irregular angles
In a star crashing dance

Are virtual interactions
Of a smashing romance.

Credit: Optical: DSS; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech;
X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/ K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn & the MYStIX team

The opposite of center
The diffusion of dense
The inverse of motion
Drives –
Our spiritual defense.

Credit: Stéphane Guisard, TWAN

I see the old beginning
I feel the spark combust
I sense my mind imprinting
From a world –
Returned to dust.

A momentary existence
Of virtual debris
Is a visible interaction
Slightly faster, than C.

Credit: Bill Snyder (at Sierra Remote Observatories)

Invisible windows
Confuse our defenses
Tempting our thoughts
While taming our senses.

Invincible structures
Reign back our offenses
By training our minds
To our modern pretenses.

Credit: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST)

sweeping ever slowly
though a daylight of dreams
the broken lonely soldier
creates a balance
through extremes

its point of translocation
from its whitewashed
streaked streams
is a fated destination for
it’s shining white screams.

Credit: Ivo Alfonso

Tracking down a witness
By tracing through a thought –

Are entangled correlations
To find what time has wrought.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Rivers of color
Flowing true, and in form

Reflect a control
Through a calm, chaotic storm

Waves of rich wonder
So completely, transformed

Drapes a darkened veil
On ideas, that don’t conform.