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Science and Science Fiction poetry: Green

June 27, 2022Life, Science, science poetryLife, poem, poetry, published poem, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Green rumbles rambles rolls and ripples
in all its shades and hues
rustles murmurs sways and drifts
floats on and under the waters of both
chill chalk stream and ocean
surfaces the land
spawns and augments tall trees
defines jungles, swamps, farmland
cools and shades, feeds and shelters
sparkled with daisies
strewn with buttercups
cut red with poppy wounds

Green is waste light reflected back from leaves
by the quantum machine of photosynthesis
that powers all life

‘Green’ was first published in the Environs issue of Snakeskin: http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/snake264.html

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: The Shape of Rain

June 20, 2022Science, science poetrypoem, poetry, published poem, rain, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I am a rain drop.

Imagine raindrops
you see tears
but clouds do not cry.
Over England they excrete
ice crystals that melt
drop and tumble
balling, falling.
Surface tension
marries colliding drops
yet divorce is common.
Plummeting, flattening
rain discs hit the London pavement
lose their identity
in puddles and pools.

The Shape of Rain was first published at https://fourthandsycamore.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/the-poetry-of-kim-whysall-hammond/

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: Rocks

May 30, 2022Science, science poetrygeology, poem, poetry, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Unimaginably ancient, preserving moments in time;
billion year old pebbles from unknown floods
bones fallen into an ancient abyss
ten thousand year old footprints along an English estuary.
Sitting on a rock, you touch time.

Rocks move. They melt and set, erode to dust
and then the dust settles
forms new rock over time almost unimaginable.
This undulating plain formed at great depths
was thrust up to mountainous heights
now lies placid for your walking comfort.

Go find a rock
and travel in time and space.

Today is Science and SF Monday — A poem each week which either has a science theme or is Science Fiction…..

Biome

March 26, 2022Life, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetrybiology, biome, Life, poem, poetry, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

We too are worlds
we live with a shimmer of species
our own biome

Fungi, bacteria, in their billions
live on our skin, our hair, and
in our folded writhing gut

Many species of microscopic mites
thrive in the pores of your face
tiny unseen spiders ride us from home to home

The deadly game of predator and prey
plays out across and within you
whether you are awake or sleeping

Kissing a loved one does not just give affection
but transfers life of many different sorts
from your lips to their cheek

Calling Sky

June 12, 2021astronomy, cosmology, Life, poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetrypoem, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

The unspeakable vastness
of the unconquerable dark
speaks to our hearts
where no harbour beckons
no port waits

A calling sky lids our lives
it shields, shelters
imprisons us
gravity the jailer to be overthrown
the well to climb out of
hand over hand

Climbing to where the only sounds are
a popping of particles
into matter phase

We will not see stars with our own eyes
nor hear the sounds of space
our travelling world
built of systems noise
ventilation hiss and engine thrum
will seep through our lives
even outside
suit noise and visors will hide
the photons trip

Yet unspeakable vastness
and unconquerable dark
will sink deep into our subconscious
refashioning our very selves
varying what is human

Will we wish to sink once more
into the trap of gravity
or shall we run with the particle streams
out into the dark?

‘Calling Sky’ was first published by Utopia Science Fiction in the April 2020 issue.

Poem published in Kaleidotrope

January 10, 2021poem, Poetry, Science Fiction Poetry, speculative poetryKaleidotrope, poetry, published poem, Science Fiction Poetry, science poetry, speculative poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m delighted to tell you that my poem ‘Shadow Dance / Island’ has been published by Kaleidotrope :

“Shadow Dance/Island” by Kim Whysall-Hammond

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

Rocks

May 27, 2020Life, philosophy, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetrygeology, Life, poem, poetry, science, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Go find a rock
and travel in time and space.

Orion

April 11, 2020astronomy, poem, Poetry, Science, science poetryastronomy, Orion, poem, poetry, science, science poem, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Lifting over the horizon comes Orion
stellar giant writ large in the sky
seven winter stars, guiding me on dark nights
heavenly shepard

Rigel, bluebright, ten millions year young
living fast and furious
there at the giants front knee
pushing forward

Great Betelguese smolders
into dying at Orions shoulder
or maybe she’s blown away already
a light six centuries away

Hanging from a three star belt
stars are birthed swaddled in glowing nebulosity
look closely and you see their pinprick natal shine
count them and argue about it

Ocean of Storms

March 18, 2020astronomy, beauty, poem, PoetryMoon, moon landing, Ocean of Storms, poem, poetry, science poem, science poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

No storm ever played across your surface
No rain ever fell
Dust lays where water would otherwise
No fish here can dwell
Misnamed lunar ‘ocean’
That two men have bounced around
The child of massive impact
Lava flooded ground

Re-blogged from 2016