First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe Collaboration Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)

A crackle
A shift
A capture
A rift
An affirmation of existence
In a second, of drift.

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SwRI

A cascading morphology
From impact,
To change

Reveals a syntax
Of energy
Redefining, its range.

Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich

A scream
Of cold silence
Projects the angry message
Of presence
Within a marker of the maker
From the future
Of history
To the creation
Of now.

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

A violent void in matter
A vision blacked with shade
A vector for our wisdom
Details a dream –
That’s not afraid.

Credit: Jesús Vargas (Sky-Astrophotography) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)

A lethal ascension
Of an age old desire
Leaves the water and land
For the air and its fire.

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

Deep blue hues
Shake from within
By piercing our vision
And halting our spin.

Dark scared clues
Sheds its cold skin
By revealing a history
In the how, of begin.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/SRI

within layers of haze
and back looking
shine

is a startling reminder
from of where
we divine.

Credit & Copyright: Maurice Toet

One’s gravitational fence
Is often condensed
By a measure
Of our spiritual
Sense.