Short Scifi Poems

I went to Mars once
in a time that wasn't yet
the coffee tasted awful


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nineteen fifty one
and the day the earth stood still
scifi christ story


stan sand...

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Blended Pans
All things to all men.
Take me to two thousand words.
And send me in orbit so fast.
Tannhauser Gate bound.
Blade Runner esque times ahead.
Paradise on fire....

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one sugar in his tea
just like me
shoes double knotted

but he did like 
to look at the stars, 
for fleeting moments
he was out there
and in that stare 
stars knew him

he didn't say
where he was from
but if I had to guess
I'd say The Pleaides...

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then you rushed into the leafy courtyard late
like you’d just been thrown in by some hand
but we hadn’t actually arranged it yet 
I knew immediately the timeline was 
malfunctioning, still, I went with it anyway
for old time sake and the yesterdays to come



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orange swirls
from dusty footing
hiking up 
to Mars’s mountain
peaks and caps
and canyons crying
out for days
of gravel pounding
edges ledges
handhold wedges
reddish sun
through reddish mist
of burning sand
in drought-filled land
all cracked in lack
of water’s snack
backed and packed
for planeteering
Venus next
tomorrow morning


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An example of SciFaiku*

terraforming mars
will the god of war
be pleased


 *SciFaiku, is a form of poetry inspired by the Japanese haiku, also sometimes known as scifi-ku or scifiku. SciFaiku poems are short, minimal poems about science and science-fiction topics. They are presented with direct, tangible images in clear and simple language....

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when I leave the house
sheep have been arranged in fields
and the allocations of cars 
have been made for today’s passing
with scripts sent out nightly
to those I might encounter
those set management guys
have been busy again
even the sky looks real
I’m sure someone must yell
AND CUT 
when I fall asleep at night
and set up begins again

funny though
I feel like an extra
in my own show


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I am one of those in a world that stopped
whether it was for seconds, fractions or millennia
but the engine of time broke down mid action
mid conversation, mid thought
and for a beautiful period we were all framed 
in a snapshot that may have lasted eons 
and some called it enlightenment
and when the buffering released us
all was as it was
and some claimed epiphanies
the only giveaway, a distant house alarm...

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ABORT ABORT
but Donaldson was already drifting
further and further away from us
the thickness of his suit decreasing 
as his courageous kindness
floated on within his demise 
and all I could do was stare panic stricken
through the small window's cruelness 
as the white speck of my friend
became more and more surrounded
by the blackness of space
far removed from everything that existed
and I wondered if Donaldson would 
explore the universe forever



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Beyond mere imaginations— Dreams,
                   •Peace, like the air blows everywhere.
Behind a closed door— War,
                   •Greed, a relentless struggle for more.
A secret to survival— Education,
                   •Jobs, everywhere connection.

You see, I had this dream
Of a place of absolute calmness 
Inhabited by faces that glow
Hunger and sufferings unknown.

Unknowingly, like a SciFi movie
I was behind the scenes
Merely chasing childish dreams....

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