New Poetry: One Short Verse and Five Scifaiku

Time for more poetry and proof that shorter is sweeter as today we have a total of six short poems (technically one poem and five scifaiku) from four writers. Enjoy. (A scifaiku is a sci-fi flavoured haiku - but you knew that already.)

Jocelyn
by Fred Zackel

Jocelyn kept her conscience in a gilded bird cage.
Her conscience had red hair & blue eyes.
Its body was marble-colored, or maybe ivory.
It had no arms only two wings.
It never sang.
The silence of failure was too great.

* Fred Zackel is a Lecturer in Literature at Bowling Green State University. Longer writings by him are available through Amazon Kindle.

Five Scifaiku

thirteen trees bear names
of girls that fell for space men
summer nights ago

* Dominic Daley lives in southeast England with his family, his cat, and his games consoles. His poetry is forthcoming in Songs of Eretz Poetry.

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twilight -
the moons we haven't mined
begin to appear

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low Earth orbit
watching the sun rise
somewhere else

* Joshua Gage describes himself as an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. His first full-length collection breaths is available from VanZeno Press. Intrinsic Night, a collaborative project he wrote with J. E. Stanley, was published by Sam’s Dot Publishing. His most recent collection Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse is available on Poet’s Haven Press. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He stomps around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe where he hosts the monthly Deep Cleveland Poetryhour and enjoys the beer at Brew Kettle.

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sign on the wormhole shuttle:
"Please keep all appendages
inside of your body."

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assimilation -
the proper way to wear
your mother's old skin

* Julie Bloss Kelsey is a short-form poet who enjoys writing scifaiku, haiku, tanka, and other short poetic forms. Her speculative poetry has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, Scifaikuest and Focus. Her poem Comet won the 2011 Dwarf Stars Award. Catch her on Twitter @MamaJoules