First Light Machine

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.

Credit: ESA, Hubble, R. Sahai (JPL), NASA

Defined by light
A sense, refined
A spectacular vision
Through a form –
Of mind.