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Ten New Poems and Scifaiku from 4 Writers

15/12/2014

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We've a selection of 10 new poems and scifaiku (technically senryu and kyoka although there are also a couple of limericks in the mix) from four writers for you today. 

• First up is Susan Burch, who says about herself "Susan likes to write haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, and sedoka. She has been published in magazines such as A Hundred Gourds, Ribbons, Frogpond, Moongarlic, and Bones, and enjoys drinking Coca-cola Slurpees."

singing ding dong
the witch is dead –
widower

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trying to sleep
in alaska –
good night sun

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• Next we have Andy Brown, "a Scottish musician who enjoys writing occasionally" with the limericks

A young kraken surfaced one day,
And scared every creature away,
But a triton and squid,
They stood up for the kid,
And said, “He just wanted to play.”

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A ravenous horde of Undead,
Filled all of the village with dread,
They nibbled a teacher,
Then chewed up a preacher,
So, the rest of the villagers fled

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• Our third contributor is Guy Belleranti who writes "poetry, fiction and more". His poetry has appeared in Scifaikuest, Midnight Echo, Trysts of Fate, Spaceports & Spidersilk and the book Anomalous Appetites.

Colorful Ending

Horror writer’s characters,
once cardboard,
spring to life
by dying,
staining page after page
a violent red.

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traveling light speed
alien children complain
are we there yet?

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amazing spacewalk
family delighted
especially the dog

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• Finally, welcome Pat Tompkins, an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area whose short poems have appeared in several issues of Dwarf Stars.

Folly

Mercury has no moon.
What do its poets do?
No night goddesses or
werewolves howling, no—What?
O! It lacks poets, too?

# # #

fresh discovery:
Martian valleys riddled
with snow bones

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desktop galaxy
cluttered with folders
the flat world

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1 Comment
John Reinhart
9/1/2015 06:21:57

These are awesome. I'd never thought of speculative limericks. The combination of these makes for a very nice set. Thanks.

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