First Light Machine

Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm

Sinking –
A melt like falling,
As reality fades
Within its cryptic shades

Is your moment
That unexpectedly
Isn’t afraid.

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Beyond –
Our belief
In the recess,
Of time

Is a whispered –
Relief
In a shared meaning,
Of mind.

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

A pinprick
Of wisdom
A faint, unrefined

An emotional, reaction
To a strange something
Undefined.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

The West side
Of history
Looks back, to the East
Accumulating, discovery
It seeks –
Its release.

Credit: Juan Ignacio Jimenez

The foreground, in life
Detects a background,
Of death

As defective, design
Destroys its intake,
Of breath.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Layers
Of history,
Deeply extend

The sense
Of adventure,
On the road
To the end.

Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)

Light, minute, magic
Mysteriously,
Makes
The flouresense, of its starlight
Into a night,
That breaks
Awake.

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

A streaking, path essential
Boldly shrieking, through my soul

Finds a sign of spirit
Boldly seeking –
Its sense of role.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/Oxford University/J. Conlon et al.; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/Univ. of Montreal/Gendron-Marsolais et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/IoA/A. Fabian et al.; DSS

A darkness
Of vision
A conscience
Of mind

A soul twisting
Wisdom
From a light,
Intertwined.

Credit & Copyright: Francesco Battistella

Spectral arm spirals
Sailing, through time
Sculps its reminder
Of a fate –
In the sublime.