June 16th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Imran Badr; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)
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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”
May 25th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)
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Creatures of fancy
Preachers of slight
Creep into consciousness
Deep –
Into night.
Chance Superposition >>
April 20th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
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Darkened skies
Shining through
Simply asking,
Who, are you?
Pons-Brooks >>
March 23rd, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl
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Charging its way through
Is a not so subtle view
Staying true –
To its wonder
Of beauty
In you.
NGC 7714 >>
February 17th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Olivier Bernard & Philippe Bernhard
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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
January 27th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Alistair Symon
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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
January 20th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: H. Bond (STScI), R. Ciardullo (PSU), Forrest Hamilton (STScI)
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Emerging –
From deep beyond
Cycling through,
The flow of you
Is how, the whole, responds.
NGC 2440 >>
December 23rd, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: William Ostling, Telescope Live
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Rejected emissions
Insure, in the end
That the beginning
Of now-frames
Will return –
To transcend.
IC 1805 >>
December 2nd, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander
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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 >>
July 29th, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern
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Designing an energy
Defined, by its grace
Combines, a deep knowledge
Refined –
To displace.
South of Scorpius >>