First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Discover a time
Without feature
A marvelous detection
Of a creature
Enveloped by light
Undiscovered by sight
A hidden gift
From an unknown
Teacher.

Flanking Ice >>>

Credit: Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann (Austria)

Parabolic orbits
In twilight skipping skies
Simply celebrates in causing
Fates predictable lies.

A parabolic image
Of a comets knowing whys
Produces catastrophic outcomes
With cataclysmic ties.

R. H. McNaught >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

Radar-dark patches
From a new knowledge gain
Is a mesmerising image
A confirmed, Titan rain.

Liquid confirmations >>>

Credit: MPL 3D

The secret author
of cosmic cruelty
trembles in terror
from the power of
its beauty.

The secret author
of cosmic beauty
disguises its horror
and ignores its
own cruelty.

Credit: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF

boom
went a star
reaching past history, far
recorded by time
commanded to find
a signal, or a reason, from afar.

Witch’s Broom Nebula >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Titan bellows
a timeless threat
to a distant horizon
that never will set.

Titan gambles
its emotional debt
on difficult odds
an even money, sure bet.

Peekaboo >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Radio wakenings
Of a ghostly nature
Survive by cloaking
Through a particle wafer.

Radiostronomy >>>

Credit: ESA/NASA – SOHO/LASCO

Fractured pulse visions
From a measured starscape try
Is a remarkably smart decision
A curiosity, not denied.

Fractured light lessons
From the depths of the deep sky
A significant exo-progression
In the eternal search, for why.

COROT – circular polar orbit >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

A ringlet
bears it’s faint streamers
and asks why,
do I hide?

It asks a question
to its orbit
of why, in fact,
am I alive?

And contemplates
questions and details of
why, indeed,
do I survive?

A Prometheus dance >>>

Credit: MPL 3D / Manuel Perez de Lema Lopez

Feel the silence
in your head
hear the whisper
that hasn’t been
said.

Hear the voices
that you dread
from the silence
of the
dead.