April Fiction Poems

In the movie, the” signal” 
An Astronaut receives 

A signal from an alien spaceship 
Heading to earth 

The alien repeats the word 
Hello in multiple...

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In the evening light
The Moon stands on its podium
The mother ship looms
A foretold invasion
Triggered by superfluous AI

wormhole in the sky
strangers in the evening light
outsiders with...

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I vividly remember the store I had just entered.
As I was busy looking for items that were running short,
a call came from a friend enquiring...

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A chilly mist hung in the air that Sunday morning in April when I pulled up in front of Harpers Grove Community Church. The gravel...

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Here we are already in April
        it’s time for new predictions
      A word...

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I step outside to get some air
upon the ship’s fine teakwood deck,
the North Atlantic air bites deep,
I raise my collar ’round my neck.

Remind myself that...

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April 24,
The Light Will Prevail 

Mrs. Which says 
This much we know for sure 
Despite the lateness of the hour 
And the growing power of...

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Prophetic Permutations 
Abysmal Affinity
Relinquished Relics
Auspicious Ancestry
Lofty Lineage
Luminous Labyrinth
Entangled Ensorcellment
Lunatic Liaison

Unwavering Universe
Nocturnal Nature
Insidious Impulse
Voluptuous Vortex
Enigmatic Enchantment 
Roaming Rhapsody 
Supernatural Symmetry  
Ethereal Exaltation



AP: 2nd place 2020

Submitted...

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Klaatu Barada Nikto.

If that 
is how it's done,
then so it will  be done.
I now lift my hand and will
be gone. So movingly inside
this ...

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serpentine-tailed beast
screams go unheard in vacuum
Ripley’s nemesis

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(C) John C Michaels, 26th April 2017

Commemorating "Alien Day"....

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(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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I hand over the bank notes - the box I take home
A flat pack tech gadget wrapped up in white foam
I peel open the packing...

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Street Technology
                       ...

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(Dedicated to Folake)

Your eyes, woman
are like twilight rainbow
amorously bearing aloft passions of mine
toward androcytic ecstacy.
They tell of endless lights.

Night skies clarion the warmth of you
keep...

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Challenge knots this song I sing
The Jesus came, saying "...this way, come..."
Thinking thoughts that had come undone
Changed the game of Many to One.

Fates of Date...

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