First Light Machine

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: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The darkness, of white
Tops sheathed, in black bright
Streak –
Through the shadows, to break free
And take flight.

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.

Credit & Copyright: Chuck Ayoub

Energized rims
Of collapsing detail
Re-forms a new boundary
Through its radiated, veil.

Credit & Copyright: Tian Lee

A brightening edge folds itself –

From the nothing
Into something
From the darkness
Into light
From the shadow
Into showing

The ancient spark,
Of burning night.