Category Archives: SF

Gift

September 23, 2020archeology, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetryAndromeda Spaceways Magazine, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, SF, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Drifting, helmet blown
lost past Heliopause
accidentally interstellar
no residual heat
bodily remains lost to space

Infinitesimal chance brings a finder
to discover the ice-corpse
to trace biologies, analyse metals

To look out across space
and wonder

‘Gift’ was first published by Utopia Science Fiction in the October 2019 issue:

https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/shop

Mountains of the Moon

September 2, 2020astronomy, poem, Poetry, Science, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, SF, speculative poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Their high mass tears at
pierces a pale sky
pulls at the high oranges
stealing it for their icy peaks.
As the mother planet rises,
methane snows glint
like golden crowns.

‘Mountains of the Moon’ was first published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations print journal Star*Line, October 2019

My poem ‘The Calling Sky’ is in Utopia Science Fiction April issue

April 30, 2020Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetrypoetry challenge, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, sky, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

My poem “Calling Sky” has been published and is available in the April issue of Utopia Science Fiction online – https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/shop.

Thank you to the editor Tristan Evarts for publishing this poem which is very special to me…..

Glint

March 7, 2020astronomy, cosmology, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, SF, speculative poetryastronomy, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, SF poetry, speculative poetry, Trouble Among the StarsThe Cheesesellers Wife

Pregnant nebula, embryo stars,
ragged incandescences torn apart
as plasma bursts from stellar birth.
Deep within amid writhing gas
a glint, metallic gleam,
foreign shapes moving to gravity’s dance,
hulls laced in ancient disaster.
Who, what and why
lost to space-time.
Those who died here
infinitesimally disassociating
stripping to molecular debris
amino acids seeding new planetary nebulae.

Rebirthed on a moon near you.

‘Glint’ was first published in Trouble Among the Stars Issue 3

Poem published in ‘Frozen Wavelets’

March 1, 2020poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

My poem ‘Mars opens her heart’ has been published by Steph P. Bianchini in the second issue of Frozen Wavelets at https://frozenwavelets.com/.

My poem is here. Please head on over to read an excellent second isssue. Thanks Steph!

‘Alien evening’ published at Frozen Wavelets

December 14, 2019poem, Poetry, SF, speculative poetryFrozen Wavelets, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, SF, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

My poem ‘Alien evening’ has been published by Steph P. Bianchini in the first ever issue of Frozen Wavelets at https://frozenwavelets.com/.

My poem is here. Please head on over to read an excellent first isssue, which I’m proud to be a part of. Thanks Steph!

Rain on the Roof

December 7, 2019children, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetrychildren, family, Mars, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, space, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

He sleeps on while I awake
to hear rain on the roof
lie snug listening to a
long familiar sound
pattering, gathering strength
and force until
it pounds
and the roof resounds.

Gasping with sudden
shattering realisation
I grab for the breathers,
the suits,
scream for the children.
It does not rain
here on Mars.

This poem was published as ‘Rain’ Star*Line Volume 42, Issue 2 –the in-house print journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

http://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline42.2.html

My poem ‘Gift ‘ has been published by Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

October 31, 2019poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to tell you that my poem ‘Gift ‘ has been published by Utopia Science Fiction Magazine and is available in the October Issue online – https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/shop

Many thanks to the editor, Tristan Evarts

‘Fossil poetry’ in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

September 26, 2019poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetryfossil, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, SF poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to tell you all that my poem ‘Fossil Poetry’ is published in the forthcoming issue 76 of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine.

Thank you Tom and Michelle!

Poem ‘Rain’ published in Star*Line

May 7, 2019Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, SF, speculative poetryGames, Mars, music, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetry, Star*LineThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m really pleased to tell you that my poem ‘Rain’ has been published in Star*Line Volume 42, Issue 2. This is the in-house print journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

http://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline42.2.html