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: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Vapors of dioxide
Released through splice
Reveal –
Their residual
In resplendent, dark ice.

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

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

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

Baseline allowances
Shaken,
From the edge
Awaken,
To a destiny
Of a re-imagined, ledge.

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

Crocking clay formations
Breaking down, awake
Makes –
The chemistry of reason
Into a postulated, lake.

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: 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 & License: NASA/JPL/SSI; Digital Composite : Emily Lakdawalla (Planetary Society)

Circular, curvature
In radially, scale
Bends –
A light constant
Into geometric,
Brail.