First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope

Bow waves that shock
Roll, and then rock
Metaphorically reach
For the key –
To times lock.

Credit: NASA / WISE

Someday run
A fuse, begun
Drives –
The pressure
Of a raging sun.

Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona

Painting the inside
From the back of the past
Frames itself outside
Its reflective –
Contrast.

Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona

A blue piercing portrait
Canvas of time
Sheds its dark secret
Through its strands –
Of pure shine.

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA

We race to the start
To come back from an end
By spinning our instants
We then –
Comprehend.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, MAST; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

A denied understanding
Relies on betrayal
As a lie that’s demanding
Implies –
How we fail.

Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

Beautifully askew
an ancient wonder,
breaks through
delivering, unto you
a new perspective
of true.

Credit: ESA, NASA, Hubble

Isolating structures
Through decomposing scales
Removes supported clusters
Revealing –
The oldest of our tales.

Credit: Adam Evans – Sky Candy

Feel,
The empty pressure
Hear,
The raging void
See,
The silent vision
Of a wonder –
Long destroyed.

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

Peering from the shadows
Cloaked in shades of bright
A world reflects its essence
Through its phasing –
Rays of white.