First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum (Yale University)

The frame of ghostly light within
Glowing, dark and cold
Sights its lonely, now begin,
Re-balanced, through its fold:

Our found, unnerved, deserted space
From sunken graves reborn
Sounds it’s brazen, silent chase
Through resplendent, scowls of scorn:

Of onward, slight, in downward cross
Unleashed, to fling its fight
Dons it’s shadow, echo loss
To a once, remembered light.

Finding unicorns >>

 

Hat Tip: “The House of Ghosts” – Margaret Widdemer

Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari, Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II)

twilight of milky sky’s,
after massive stars, in spark
may ever after sadness say farewell
as I depart
for throughout time and fractured space
the epic battles bear me far
I pray to see my masters face
as I depart for yonder bar.

Vela Supernova Remnant >>

 

Hat Tip: Alfred Lord Tenneyson – “Crossing the Bar”

Credit & Copyright: Digitized Sky Survey (POSS II); Processing: Utkarsh Mishra

O reflection,
The great purple witch rides this night
Untrusting, through prow or strength
Without safety of flight
For by glance, by wicked snare
Lies the darkend smile, of Rigel’s glare.

Cosmic crone >>

 

Hat Tip: James Weldon Johnson “The White Witch”

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: Ivan Eder

Ionized interests
Red with glow
Signifies its distant
Silhouette flow.

Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, Earth and Stars)

Light, minuets of magic
Through the heart
Of our thoughts
In time

Whispers, its spiraling skyscapes
Through the soul
Of our minds
Paradigm.

Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

an extended
envelope of light
reveals,

the source,
the symbiotic balance
of a captured, ordeal.

Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci

Stratified sisters
Seeking to flee
Sail, for a signal
While strafing –
Their sea.