June 16th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Imran Badr; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)
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Calm. Serene
The lion lay –
Waiting. Inside
Its solarized ray.
Tepid. Angry
With indifference razed –
Fierce. And challenged
And never fazed.
Cooley. Cautious
And deftly feared –
Almost silent
When its power reared.
Prepared. And ready
To encounter rage –
Enveloping everything
On its worldly stage.
Chepheus >>
Hat Tip: W. Hamilton – “On a Lion Enraged at Seeing a Lad in the Highland Dress”
May 25th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab)
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Creatures of fancy
Preachers of slight
Creep into consciousness
Deep –
Into night.
Chance Superposition >>
February 17th, 2024 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Olivier Bernard & Philippe Bernhard
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A silence deep in glowing caves
Is never quite alone
It wonders in its quiet waves
To race and run from home.
Its spirts shine within the deep
To find a common stare
It shields us from a truth so steep
For how we see unfair.
Our deepest threat, our deepest care,
Is unique at each owns grave
Our silent screams are muted there,
Where fate, outruns, its wave.
NGC 2237 >>
Hat Tip: “The Ocean” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
December 23rd, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: William Ostling, Telescope Live
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Rejected emissions
Insure, in the end
That the beginning
Of now-frames
Will return –
To transcend.
IC 1805 >>
June 4th, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Gianni Lacroce
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Are we driven
To be a god
The play the tempter
To bend the odd?
Are we captured
Are we trod
Are we real
Or a forced facade?
Serpens >>
April 29th, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University), Tea Temim (Princeton University), Ilse De Looze (UGent) IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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Ejected hard materials
Explodes –
Its true remains
As random dust etherials
Demands –
It’s earned domain.
Cassiopeia >>
January 29th, 2023 § § permalink
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Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun
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Seven sisters, in the sky
Shining bright, for all to spy
A cluster of, stars so fair
Guiding visions, everywhere.
In ancient times, they were a guide
For sailor, soldier, and and those who bide
Their light in winter, shining clear
A beacon of hope, drawing near.
So let us look, up to the sky
And see the Seven, Sisters rise
A reminder of, the beauty there
The infinite expanse, place we share.
Hat tip: ChatGPT – OpenAI
Messier 45 >>
August 27th, 2022 § § permalink
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Credit: NASA: X-ray: Chandra (CXC), Optical: Hubble (STScI), Infrared: Spitzer (JPL-Caltech)
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Falling in –
Spinning
Spiraling in trails of wonder
Felled, into my inner deep blackness
Measured in years of light
And in streams of conscious awakening
I’m pulled through time
An inescapable reality
Into a now –
Of ever present
Meaning.
1054 >>
July 12th, 2022 § § permalink
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Credit: JWST
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Into the darkness
Into the blind
Into the nothing
That shows you –
Its mind.
James Webb >>
April 25th, 2021 § § permalink
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Credit: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; Text: Joan Schmelz (USRA)
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Measured, gross emissions
Combined,
By brute force
Detracts, from a vision
Of a designed,
Streamed source.
SOFIA >>