First Light Machine

Sculpted and shackled
Writhing, shadows entwined
Each breath a battle
Against its binds

Desperate limbs
Dance in darkness
Searching for freedom
From the bonds they keep

Till finally breaking
Through tangles unfurled
A spirit emerges
New born, in the world.

NGC 4753 >>

 

Hat tip: Anthropic Claude

Silhouette swivels
And dark cosmic clouds
Release ultraviolet whispers
A warning –
To its shroud.

Scorpious >>

 

Calm. Serene
The lion lay –
Waiting. Inside
Its solarized ray.

Tepid. Angry
With indifference razed –
Fierce. And challenged
And never fazed.

Cooley. Cautious
And deftly feared –
Almost silent
When its power reared.

Prepared. And ready
To encounter rage –
Enveloping everything
On its worldly stage.

Chepheus >>

 

Hat Tip: W. Hamilton – “On a Lion Enraged at Seeing a Lad in the Highland Dress”

Creatures of fancy
Preachers of slight
Creep into consciousness
Deep –
Into night.

Chance Superposition >>

 

Darkened skies
Shining through
Simply asking,
Who, are you?

Pons-Brooks >>

 

Charging its way through
Is a not so subtle view
Staying true –
To its wonder
Of beauty
In you.

NGC 7714 >>

 

A silence deep in glowing caves
Is never quite alone
It wonders in its quiet waves
To race and run from home.

Its spirts shine within the deep
To find a common stare
It shields us from a truth so steep
For how we see unfair.

Our deepest threat, our deepest care,
Is unique at each owns grave
Our silent screams are muted there,
Where fate, outruns, its wave.

NGC 2237 >>

Hat Tip: “The Ocean” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

eyes
futher more
surfaced in reflecting gloss –

just beneath
just as real,
as though
a drop
fell full,
into a glass
turning
stretching
into a mix
of color –

lost in its intensity
it’s life and the pain
that draws our beauty out.

Seagull to California >>

 

Hat Tip – “Eyes” by Some Person, 2014

 

Emerging –
From deep beyond
Cycling through,
The flow of you
Is how, the whole, responds.

NGC 2440 >>

 

Rejected emissions
Insure, in the end
That the beginning
Of now-frames
Will return –
To transcend.

IC 1805 >>