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Ten New Scifaiku for Midsummer

14/6/2016

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It's been a while but we're back with a great selection of new scifaiku by Ash Krafton + Pat Tompkins + John Hawkhead + Francis W. Alexander + Christina Sng + Guy Belleranti...


By Ash Krafton...

Thus With a Kiss
galaxies too great to survive an encounter
a pair of star-crossed lovers
engage in a fatal dance
 
 
Seek the Undiscovered Country
navigation failed, fuel cells depleted
undocked adrift
the traveler cannot return

* Ash Krafton (@AshKrafton) writes speculative fiction and poetry. She lurks in the heart of the Pennsylvania coal region but can be spotted at www.ashkrafton.com Both these 'ku start with quotes by Shakespeare.


By Pat Tompkins...

photographing
the Milky Way
she sees fractals
 

like the Pacific
the Sea of Tranquility
may be mislabeled

* Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her short sci-fi poems have appeared in several issues of Dwarf Stars. She adds "I'm not quite a Luddite, but I don't do social media or have a blog or website."


By John Hawkhead...

passing the last star
into the limitless void
cascading matter
 
* John Hawkhead is a writer of haiku and other short poetry forms. His work has been published all over the world in small press magazines and the Internet. His book of poetry and haiku Witness is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes.


By Francis W. Alexander...

her last wishes  –            
a lone ship heads into  
the Flower Nebula     

* Francis W. Alexander was born and lives in Sandusky, Ohio. Besides caring for his cats, he is teaching himself web design. He has had stories and poems published in The Martian Wave, Night to Dawn, Scifiakuest, Space and Time, The Drabbler Anthologies; A Robot, A Cyborg, & A Martian Walk Into A Space Bar, the Zombified II Anthology and other publications.  


By Christina Sng...

grandmother's old house
left to me
the attic ghosts smile

* Christina Sng (@ChristinaSng) is a Rhysling-nominated poet and writer. Her work has received several Honourable Mentions in the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She is the author of three chapbooks and her first full-length book of poetry A Collection of Nightmares from Raw Dog Screaming Press arrives late 2016. Find her at www.christinasng.com


By Guy Belleranti...

lovely alien 
her beauty blows him away
so does her sneeze


wedding day bliss
ghoulish groom and bloody bride
exchange ring fingers


gifted doctor
perfect bedside manner
even the dead smile

* Guy Belleranti writes poetry, fiction and more. His poetry has appeared in Scifaikuest, Midnight Echo, Trysts of Fate, Grievous Angel, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Beyond Centauri and the book Anomalous Appetites as well as many other places. 

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