051820d

The Umbrella Academy


untrained psionics
crashed the moon
biosphere burns off


joke's on
third-planet sapients
microbes don't care

051720d

peeling skin

meat pollen swells the boles

of GMO trees

051020b

potshot boys
shooting up the arteries
strung-out theory

050920b

colony ship
passes overhead
not much of a moon

050920

A look at Jovian astronomy as a scifaiku:

Europa’s

been slapped around a bit

she can’t leave her Da



Or does it work better as a lune?

Europa’s been slapped

too often

Jupiter’s handprints



Maybe a fib:

 

look

at

her face

Jupiter’s

worked her over good

but still Europa doesn’t leave

050820b

Grandma stepped
from the time machine
Dad in her arms

here's your kid she told me
he needs changing

future-me
his old time machine
for like-new comix

he invested
in growth stocks
left with my daughter

great grandma's
only surviving photo

I recognize
her smile and locket
i hate myself

100117c

morning's cool
breeze is gone, heated up
stay in the shade

Scifaiku going digital

Inverted Folk

I published this tiny collection of scifaiku in 2012 as a trifold brochure. It's all my own work (except a photo [Sheila Kopaska-Merkel] and the brochure design [F. J. Bergmann]), and many of the poems appeared nowhere else. It includes a photomicrograph, taken by me, of weird and alien creatures. If you want a pdf, it's free for the asking: jopnquog at gmail.com.

Dwarf Stars submission deadline May 15

Guidelines:

http://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html

In brief, anyone may nominate speculative poems of 10 lines or fewer, first published in 2015. The poems in this and any blog are eligible, as well as those in any print or digital publication. They just have to be from 2015, and short enough. The short poems in this blog are not reprints.

Took too long to water the plants

she woke in the greenhouse
thimble in her hand
constant drip from one rusty faucet
mile after mile of wilting begonias
peppers, hydrangeas, and more

031516b

oh the tentacles
this mutant kitten
burns me in its sleep

030916

world's largest cookie
was how they billed the thing
never found the mall

Terminator: The Obvious Solution

Proterozoic
already a machine world
Cambrian reformatting

Diane Severson talks scifaiku at Amazing Stories

Here:

http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2015/03/genre-poetry-round-march-2015-haiku/


She mentions this blog. Most of these are written in ~ 5 seconds. Not the best way to maximize quality, but some days it's all the time I have.

@7X20

Featuring my scifaiku all this week.

Sales

Recently sold poems to NewMyths.com, Star*line, @7X20, Scifaikuest, and Cthulhu Haiku 2. A lucky temporal clustering event.

031012

finding our astronauts
in a hole in the ground
told u I could!

free science poetry

http://www.sfpoetry.com/promos.html

Inverted Folk

I have assembled a three-fold pamphlet of my favorites of my own scifaiku from the list year or two. It might be of some slight interest, and is available for $2 or comes free with a subscription or subscription extension to DN.

scifaiku at 7x20 today

By me. Go to @7x20 on twitter.