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Science and Science Fiction poetry: Mars opens her heart

August 8, 2022poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryMars, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Mars opens her heart
ancient as creation
rusty with ill use
swallows us whole

This poem was first published in the second issue of Frozen Wavelets at https://frozenwavelets.com/

Science and Science Fiction poetry: Falling

August 1, 2022poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryMars, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I had always said, as if to children,
or the terminally stupid
“No they don’t fall hard”
there’s nothing to make you fall
here in space
the realm between planets
the dark void where we only dare venture
locked safely in our tin cans.
In my simplicity of response
my smart-ass rebuke of cliché
I had slipped into the error
of regarding of an orbit
as pre-described pre-ordained
and all else floats, aimlessly.

He is falling, accelerating away
into a gravity well.
Months in a cramped solitary cabin,
locking himself away
self harming with food.
Then a frantic dash to escape
when the rest of us were sleeping
jury rigging the air lock
cramming opulent flesh into an EVA suit
leaving the ship without tether
a mighty great kick against the hull
starting his fall from grace.

Soon to be the first human to enter the Martian atmosphere
the hard way.

Science and Science Fiction poetry: Rain

July 4, 2022Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryMars, poem, poetry, published poem, rain, Science Fiction Poetry, 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.

‘Rain’ was first published in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations print journal Star*Line 42.2 http://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline42.2.html

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A poem each week which either has a science theme or is Science Fiction…..

My poem “The Ancient of Days” published in The Fantastic Other

April 19, 2022Fantasy, poem, Poetry, speculative poetryFantasy, Mars, poem, poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am delighted to announce that my poem “The Ancient of Days” has been published in Issue 4 of The Fantastic Other magazine.

The issue can be read here:

the-fantastic-other-issue-04-1.pdf (wordpress.com)

Many thanks to the editor, G. E. Butler, and his team for publishing my poem.

Poem in Sciencefictionery Magazine

September 8, 2021poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryMars, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to tell you that the first ever issue of Sciencefictionery Magazine is published today, and my poem ‘Falling’ is part of this great issue. My poem tells a story about troubles on a voyage to Mars.

https://sciencefictionery.com/shop

Mars opens her Heart

October 28, 2020poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryMars, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Mars opens her heart
ancient as creation
rusty with ill use
swallows us whole

This poem was first published in the second issue of Frozen Wavelets at https://frozenwavelets.com/

Desperate

January 29, 2020poem, Poetry, Technologyclimate, Enceladus, ESA, Life, Mars, NASA, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

We send robots to roam
neighbouring planets and moons
decades in the dark
searching, sensing, tasting
looking for life traces

Could it be Enceladus
where molecules spurt from
hidden ocean-slush
or indeed Mars, so dry
so near, so tantalising?

Will they succeed before
we destroy our lives
here on precious blue green Earth?
Before there is no one
to receive the news?

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

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

Hidden Dragon

April 21, 2019astronomy, dragon, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetrydragon, Eastercon, Mars, NASA, poem, poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

In deep time when the air was fat with moisture and warmth
you soared in low gravity, swooped over and along deep Marineris
scrabbled amongst rust red rocks, seeking the treasure of tasty morsels.
Then, as the air fizzed away to trail behind your little planets orbit
and the planetary heart chilled to immobility
so you chilled and slowed.
Settling down to a hibernation, waiting the warmth of a spring
that has never come.

Blanketed by wind borne dust you have been slumbering
in your crater nest.
Now those selfsame winds have scoured away your cover
revealing your raised scales.
Massive glider, hidden dragon.

(Thank you Nesa, for the idea!)

Bunge Crater Dunes — Fans and ribbons of dark sand dunes creep across the floor of Bunge Crater in response to winds blowing from the direction at the top of the picture. The frame is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) wide. This image was taken in January 2006 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter and posted in a special December 2010 set marking the occasion of Odyssey becoming the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history. The pictured location on Mars is 33.8 degrees south latitude, 311.4 degrees east longitude. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University