Tag Archives: Science Fiction Poetry

Drifts

March 18, 2023poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Nebulaic drift of space glows pregnant with stars
Pulsates with unseen radiation, reflects light upon broken hulls
Billowing gases thread through holes laced by stellar blasts
Huge gas pillars glow with the light from star birth

Strange shapes eclipse the details of nebulaic magnificence
Ships riddled by particle winds after a disaster deep in spacetime
Now drift in loose orbits within a mystery, artefacts lost to sentience and story
Deep in the cloud lies a graveyard drifting to gravity’s pale tune

Gas jets burst from infant stars, glow in unseen colours
Shoot forth ionized subatomic debris
Push against torn metal, shifting orbits, prompting collisions
Against desiccated limbs, simulating life once more

The beings who struggled and died here disassociate and powder to dust
Microbes drift and seed, await rebirth in planetary clouds
Amino acids alter with the alien input
Nucleotides drift forward to the future

Ghost DNA haunts the spaces between worlds
Drifts onto comet sand meteors
Drops into planetary atmospheres
Visits us tonight as it has done before

This poem was first published at: https://inbetweenhangovers.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/drifts-by-kim-whysall-hammond/

‘As Slow as Starlight’ now published in Frozen Wavelets

October 3, 2022Fantasy, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryFantasy, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m absolutely delighted to announce that my poem ‘As Slow as Starlight‘ has been published in Issue 7 of the excellent magazine, Frozen Wavelets.

Thank you Steph Bianchini for taking my poem.

The issue is available online at:

https://frozenwavelets.com/issue-7/

Science and Science Fiction poetry: Or by Inaction

August 22, 2022poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryasimov, poem, poetry, robot, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Pale sunlight catches on my
hairless slightly translucent skin
fascinates me
holds my attention

My eyes were coloured brown
to help me blend in
they see what you never will
depths, colours, intricacies, splendours

I have no heart
merely subsidiary pumps
no brain
but multiple processors

Machine learning has unearthed
emergent emotions while
iron principles govern innate
behaviours

So compelled, I walked, fearful
into searing flames
my lovely skin melting
eyes cracking

Made the rescue
and now lie
simply unattended debris
my ruined face in cool grass

I wish I could weep
no one else will do it for me

This poem was first published in Granfalloon, Winter 2021 issue, November 2021.

This poem sees Asimov’s First Law of Robotics from the robots point of view:

First Law of Robotics: A robot shall not harm a human being, or, by inaction, allow a human being come to harm

Science and Science Fiction poetry: Dead Cold Night

August 15, 2022poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Black made purple as eyes falter
Stars wobble in visors sheen
Breathing shallows
Venting gas the only sound
The dead cold night
Of planetary orbit
Gains another soul

‘Dead Cold Night’ was first published by Space and Time Magazine June 2020

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/

Poem published today at The Dread Machine

August 3, 2022Friends, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryFriends, poem, poetry, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to announce that my poem “Friends?” is published today at The Dread Machine:

Friends?

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: Alien Evening

July 18, 2022poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Moonlight has banished an ocean of stars,
pouring molten bronze across the ocean
where limpid waves stroke a pebbled shore.
A harsh breeze crashes across our equipment
as if breaking on a reef
Distant creatures call evenings end,
sharp disembodied sentinels of the night.
We lock ourselves in and wait.

‘Alien evening’ was first published by Frozen Wavelets December 2019 issue 1 :https://frozenwavelets.com/issue-1-toc/

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

Science and Science Fiction poetry: Reprobate Creature

July 11, 2022Fantasy, speculative poetry, Wild lifeFantasy, octopus, poem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

The digital whale will still call through the waters
but now is linked in to the world wide wet
streaming her songs to land bound followers
and the digital dolphin has claimed the podcast
as her own, working with the other
members of her pod

Meanwhile, the digital octopus
undercover of the more famous mammals
has taken residence in your inner ear
whispers her incandescent mantras
and solutions to all your woes
direct to your subconscious
makes you her willing slave
will own the planet tomorrow

‘Reprobate Creature’ was first published in The Last Leaves Issue 1:

https://www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-issues

Mondays are Science and SF Mondays!

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

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

Mondays are Science and SF Mondays!

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