First Light Machine

Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI),
C. R. O’Dell (Vanderbilt U.), NASA

A bow wave of solitude
An atmosphere, of truth
A conduit for the beautiful
Within the nourishment, of youth.

Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

A dynamical history
A reduction, of form
A continued collusion
Through abduction, by storm.

Credit: Y. Hezaveh (Stanford) et al., ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

On course distortions
Of direct,
Dispersed source
Distracts from the motions
Of indirect,
Produced force.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

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

Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

A red light emission
Burns bright
And stays true
To a dense deep
Admission
That stays tight –
To fates view.

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.