First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Forever dreams,
Of distant beams
Riding away,
Over slow decay

We know not,
The parting air

Of our despair
Of a silent sigh
And quiet –
Slow goodbye.

Receding crescent >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari, Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II)

twilight of milky sky’s,
after massive stars, in spark
may ever after sadness say farewell
as I depart
for throughout time and fractured space
the epic battles bear me far
I pray to see my masters face
as I depart for yonder bar.

Vela Supernova Remnant >>

 

Hat Tip: Alfred Lord Tenneyson – “Crossing the Bar”

Credit & Copyright: Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II); Processing: Utkarsh Mishra

O reflection,
The great purple witch rides this night
Untrusting, through prow or strength
Without safety of flight
For by glance, by wicked snare
Lies the darkend smile, of Rigel’s glare.

Cosmic crone >>

 

Hat Tip: James Weldon Johnson “The White Witch”

Credit & Copyright: Maicon Germiniani

I am energies
For the void, not yet formed
Through degenerate emission

We have built a jewel
A monument of color
Facing a blackness, forever tomb

So I call these filaments
A mark of remembrance
Where the unfaithful,

Watch the redHa shine
Broken – into newborn life
In the memory, of death.

Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh

A single point of motion
From a helium fusion shield
Is the answer, in a question
From its complex –
Radiant field.

Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA)

Mythical mysteries
Of confounding,
Dark scales

Strikes through
Its long history
Through compounding, contrails.

Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

Flashes of color
Unplan –
To create

Rebranding their construct
To withstand –
Their new state.

Credit & Copyright: Bray Falls

Prominent glows
Of electron shows
Strike the ionized atoms –
Of re-configured
Re-flows.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran

Rivers –

Of swirling air
Envelope our visions
And enrapture our dreams

Evolving –

To be a witness
To moving layers
Of shadow streams.