Short Science Fiction Poems

Short Science Fiction Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Science Fiction by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Science Fiction by length and keyword.


Flame

Different dawns
reveal themselves 
and 
near our blue 
world
asteroids becom
one 
with 
the 
sky
Any questions?
Form:


Planet

You wandering one
whose celestial body is
moving in the sky
by lighting this inhuman 
earth; your pace is my comfort.
© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

William Shatner

William Shatner (Captain Kirk),
Best known for his acting work,
In music he would speak the song,
Resulting in a say-along.
Form: Clerihew

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock),
His music career quite ad hoc,
Sang of Bilbo in sixty eight,
With his fringe still Vulcan straight.
Form: Clerihew

The Moon Vanishes

A few days ago
The moon vanished from the sky
They put it somewhere
Scientists had determined
It interfered with progress
© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


Army Rangers Rescue Ufo Abductee

Up on  mountain top.
Just don't know how I got here.
Army Rangers  rescued me.
Says UFO kidnapped me.
Sure lucky I was let go.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clara Who Clerihew

Clara Oswald Who
The Doctor's secret wife—who knew?
Returned from September's honeymoon
By way of last year's month of June
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Kimo

Merabules cross the iridescent sea

Light crafts metamorphose

Seek to find is ordered












Kimo -- Three lines Contest.
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Wanderer

Floating out further,
Adrift among the stellar.
Far beyond return,
Surrounded by the red glow
Of all solar stars which burn.
Form: Tanka

Black Hat 2222

Tetra Two 2222 is a black hat
Unknown sabotaging the system
Making our identities vulnerable
Hacking tracking & blackmailing..
© Zafar Bhai  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Bio

Ode To the Flu

Conquering alien
amidst human flu outbreak
fled earth contagious

Conquering alien
ooze influenza sickness
left earth alone
Form: Senryu

The Deafening Silence of the Thrusters

I'm shocked
one of many
in shock
aboard the gin palace
lost far from the pleasure dome
somewhere between 
the Moon and Mars.

Premium Member Star Wars Vi Return of the Jedi---The Force

Weapon…light-saber
Acrobatics with the Force
Darth Vader’s demise


Entrant into Andrea Dietrich's "SENRYU OF A MOVIE SCENE" contest
Form: Senryu

Premium Member If I Was Superman

i would blow them away to planet Neptune to die in frozen bay





1st placement
JCB Buri
If I am a super hero heroine contest
Form: Monoku

Three Year Stint

Three Year Stint

William Shatner
Was a space captain only as an actor.
He told fans to get a life,
Which only brought him strife.
Form: Clerihew

Star Whores

Obi Wan Kenobi
Said “dooby do be dobie”
He wasn’t one but nearly two
And didn’t know just what to do
In his brownie, Kenobi robe(y)
© Mike Youds  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Haiku By Escher

#1
broken icicle
equatorial fossil
turned now into stone

Brian Johnston
June 20, 2016

Poet's Notes:
Expect more to come!  Ha!
Form: Haiku

Premium Member superstar

lola smalanna was fine

until she turned about nine

when mother brought home

an eclectic tome

and her stars did misalign.
Form: Limerick

Gordon Shumway

Gordon Shumway
Want to cook cats someday
His flight to his planet went south
crashed on Earth and now, he's known as ALF
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Sci-Fi

Sci-fi transports you to a place,
Unrestricted by time & space,
Leaves you cool, collected & calm;
As genres go, it be the bomb.
Form: Rhyme

Nosferatu

Sharp teeth
Bite points
White fangs
Touch skin
Cold touch
Neck bite
Sharp sting
Dark falls
Neck chill
Bite marks
Bat flies
Blood cold
Form: Verse

Bell Captain

Bell Captain

Bill Shatner
Was in TV ads as a hotel rate flattener.
Maybe known from his original dint
As a space captain in a 3 year stint.
Form: Clerihew

Frankenstein

A lightening bolt
goes through 
my throat
a fire comes from
the skies,
to sear the air
and strike me there
and now 
I am.........
 ALIVE!
Form: Couplet

Premium Member they're here already

Trump slyly picked Fox eye catchers
His heinous doctrine dispatchers
That from seed pods hatched!
Are we now outmatched
Invaded by body snatchers?
Form: Limerick

Drift

A craft ever afloat
in dark endless doldrums.

The drifting aether-boat,
station of static hum.

Fallout: the lethal moat.
Recov’ry never comes.
Form: Rhyme

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