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Short Poetry for a Cool Yule

22/12/2017

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We've just had the Shortest Day (up here in the Northern Hemisphere) so what better than some short-form poetry, touching everything from time and space travel to primeval horror, to see us into the Festive Season. Our contributors are Robert Shmigelsky, Brittany Hause, Vince Gotera, and Bruce Boston.


temporal archaeology
digging up my own skeleton
from the bedrock


Christmas
window shopping
looking for the right gift
something heartfelt but misplaced in
the past
 
...Robert Shmigelsky


cenotaph

bits of shattered hull
twirling in zero gee
her favorite bear

...Brittany Hause


Snowman

eyes
chunks of
charcoal

arms
black
branches
reaching out

from
under
​the bed

...Vince Gotera


Full Moon Forecast

A ginger sky at twilight,
rich in effluence. 
At dusk a blood moon
on the horizon.
A bestial cry in the dark
trembles the night.

...Bruce Boston
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No more shopping days till Armageddon: new Scifaiku & Haiga by David J. Kelly

10/4/2017

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Two scifaiku and an SF-themed haiga today from David J. Kelly. David (aka @motto_sakura on Twitter) lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. He is fascinated by the potential of Japanese short form poetry and his work has appeared in numerous journals. His first collection of haiku (Hammerscale from the Thrush’s Anvil) was published in November 2016 by Alba Publishing.

androidgenous
silicone hills and valleys
lead me astray


panic buying
no more shopping days
‘til Armageddon

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New Poetry: Haiku & Tanka

26/6/2014

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Now it is the turn for our debut contribution to the Grievous Angel Poetry section. The poet is Stewart C Baker an academic librarian, haikuist and speculative fiction writer. His work has appeared in various places and can be found at http://www.infomancy.net Stewart's contribution is a haiku, which contains a neat play on Basho, and a longer distinctly atmospheric tanka...

plop! a frog
falls into a gravity well . . 
Zeno's Paradox

dragon-smoke
from a distant mountain
lifting with my dreams . . .
this certainty of feeling
that we'll never meet again
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