Dominous

August 31st, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit: Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

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

Scorpious >>

 

Atheopia

June 16th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Imran Badr; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)

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”

Ruptured

May 25th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)

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

Chance Superposition >>

 

Arietis

April 20th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

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

Pons-Brooks >>

 

Dynamic

March 23rd, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl

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

NGC 7714 >>

 

Designation R

February 17th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Olivier Bernard & Philippe Bernhard

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

 

Nebulosity

January 27th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon

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

 

Chrysalis

January 20th, 2024 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: H. Bond (STScI), R. Ciardullo (PSU), Forrest Hamilton (STScI)

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

NGC 2440 >>

 

Silicon Blue

December 23rd, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: William Ostling, Telescope Live

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

IC 1805 >>

 

Gliding Ray

December 2nd, 2023 § 0 comments § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander

The sky is calm
The tide is far
Upon its crested, dark reservoir.

A line of spray
A blanched, mist scar
Reflects its creased, gilded white char.

At point return,
And high point bar
We see its depth –
Time’s true, repertoire.

LBN 86 >>

 

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