First Light Machine

Credit: NASA

An eruption reacts
And is encompassed by flame
A split second attack
Is what delivers its
Fame.

Credit: NASA/JPL Cal-Tech

The process of measuring
Ensures debate
About the essence of light
And the meaning of fate.

Credit: NASA/JPL Cal-Tech

the nova
moves slowly
sliding soft
on dark air
showing novel
uniqueness
a testament
to what’s rare.

Credit: NASA

The break of day
In ruthless decay
Erodes the ever present
Away.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L. Townsley et al.

Hot and young
Is a destiny
Outrun
By a sudden moment
That’s unofficially
Begun.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Feel the mystery
In the pain
Feel the anger
Of a vengeful reign.

Feel the forgiveness
In a breath
Feel the love
That falls from death.

Feel the beginning
And pretend
That the danger
Has come to an end.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Begin the movement
From blackness to bright
Detail the conversion
From submission to
Fight.

Credit: Lawrence A. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and NASA/ESA

An angry tide
Moves softly inside
A storm twisted vision
Where what’s real
Get’s defied.