First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

Expanse
In a trance
Within a relative glance,
Exists
In a vacuum,
Of chance.

Credit: Bob and Janice Fera – Feraphotography.com

Cold
And alone
A captured shimmer, of home

In the depths
Of time
Within a frozen, sublime

Is a voice
So distant
Its gone, in an instant

And an silence
So loud
It thunders through, its cold shroud.

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

The density of heat
Within a radiated shell
Determines the status
Of present,
By reforming
The presence
Of hell.

Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (IAA, Spain); Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

A luminous brilliance
A cathedral of shine
A signature of substance
Where reality –
Is defined.

Image Processing & Copyright: Oliver Czernetz – Data: Digitized Sky Survey (POSS-II

Ongoing loops
In the core,
Of our being

Assure, not a sense
But a view,
To our seeing.

Credit: Dr. Don Goldman – Astrodonimaging.com

Double star clusters
Reflect, the unseen
Hiding out, in shaved curves
Creating dark mass –
Routines.

Credit & Copyright: Processing – Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari Data – Hubble Tarantula Treasury, European Southern Observatory

Radiated colors
Falling backwards, in time
Seek their new positions
In crashing landscapes
Re-aligned.

Radiated visions
Rocking inwards, inclined
Greet their fate solutions
Through arcing shadows
Re-defined.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University

Downstream windows
Deflect
And detract
A carved impact
Relieved
By a tract
Ripped
Within a visioned
Abstract.

Credit & Copyright: Jason Jennings

Yellow leach reflections
Rumbling through our dreams
Connect –
And trace a history
Of a past –
In present streams.

Blueish bleached refractions
Shining future themes
Reject –
Their place in history
Through a now –
Of pure extremes.