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It's a Wall-to-Wall Scifaiku Fest!

6/3/2017

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No prizes for guessing what we're covering today in our wall-to-wall scifaiku fest. Our featured poets are... Guy Belleranti, Christina Sng, Bruce Boston, John Calvert, Deborah P Kolodji and Lauren McBride – most of them will already be familiar to you but we've also included their details at the foot of this feature. Enjoy and just remember the old joke: To write a poem in only seventeen syllables is very diff


love hurts
especially a hot date
with a dragon

Halloween party
costume unnecessary
I bare my fangs

alien daughter
extremely intelligent
great heads on her shoulders 

by Guy Belleranti


three suns
why we evolved
nine eyes

twin headlights
the monster all fawns
are warned about 

sprinkled beneath
my favourite tree
your lovely bones

by Christina Sng 


Inconclusive View
Far as the most powerful
telescopes can reach,
still no sign of Heaven.
 
Blurred Future
His fortuneteller
had a cataract
on her third eye

by Bruce Boston


THE GALILEAN MOONS

IO
Pizza eruption
Set on full magnetosphere
Cooked. Melts inside out

CALLISTO
Colder than Christmas
Glass ball bauble crater-pocked
Joves golfball hard hail

EUROPA
Below whipped spindrift
Cauldron of simmering ocean
Brewing unknown cells?

GANYMEDE
Big kid on the block
Shifting snowfield to mountain
And feeling groovy

by John Calvert


quicksand
under the lander
your goodbye static

by Deborah P Kolodji 


in the spacestation lobby
a grand piano
tentacles tickling the ivories

by Lauren McBride


* Guy Belleranti writes poetry, fiction and more. His poetry has appeared in many publications including Scifaikuest, Midnight Echo, Grievous Angel, Trysts of Fate, Disturbed Digest and the book Anomalous Appetites.

* Christina Sng is a poet, writer, and artist. She is the author of several collections, including A Constellation of Songs (Origami Poems Project, Allegra Press), Catku (Allegra Press), Astropoetry (Alban Lake Publishing), and A Collection of Nightmares (Raw Dog Screaming Press).  http://www.christinasng.com/

* Bruce Boston's work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, The Pedestal Magazine, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase. His poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers' Award, the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and the SFPA Grandmaster Award.

* John Calvert lives in Manchester (England) and is a writer, musician, performer and, at the  moment, teaching English

* Deborah P Kolodji is the moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group and a former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her first full-length book of haiku and senryu highway of sleeping towns was recently published by Shabda Press. http://www.shabdapress.com/deborah-p-kolodji.html

* Lauren McBride finds inspiration in faith, nature and science. She shares a love of laughter and the ocean with her husband and two grown children.
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18/6/2017 11:00:10

Thanks for reminding me of the money you owe me!! Bit of a problem is that I havent got a Paypal account ...so I dont know how I could get around that... any ideas? Sorry for messing you around ... John...

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