Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

#OTD, 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #MoonLanding #MoonLandingDay #poem #poetry #astronauts #scifi #scifipoem #scifipoetry

"Gaia Sings the Body Electric"
By Jie Venus Cohen

Read now: bit.ly/40UDFu1

#scifi #scifiwriter #scifipoem #transhumanism

"They Remember Faces"
By Leo Oliveira

Read now: bit.ly/48P0KQx

#scifi #scifiwriter #scifipoem #dystopia #dystopianwriter #anarchist #anarchistfiction

"The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program"

By Steve Wheat

Read now: bit.ly/3C8iUQV

#scifi #scifiwriter #scifipoem #dystopia #dystopianwriter

#SciFiPrompt 71: Rocky from @gus

Rover roams on endless plains.
Rocky landscape.
It is Mars, it could be Earth.

Many fans don't lose faith
of a picture sent someday,
With a green man on the frame.
Waving, grinning to the cam:
"Hello Earthlings, here we are"

#SciFiPoem

panicked lonliness
crosswalk button brings release
he's not really there

~~~~~
S01 E01 "Where Is Everybody?"

haiku #4 by me inspired by the 1959 Twilight Zone

#haiku #threelines #poetry #SciFiPoem #TwilightZone​

lonely man wants out
simulation breaks his mind
but vows to the moon

~~~~~
S1 E01 "Where Is Everybody?"

haiku #2 by me inspired by the 1959 Twilight Zone

#haiku #threelines #poetry #SciFiPoem #TwilightZone​

S1 E01 "Where Is Everybody?"
Haiku from inspired by the 1959 Twilight Zone

men dreaming of space
+
test the limits of the mind
=
we need each other

#haiku #threelines #poetry #SciFiPoem #TwilightZone

Midwest in space is Alpha Centauri
The people are painfully nice
Every planet, golden fields
Dotted with industrial towers
Immigrants in multi-generational pods
All love bratwurst and beer
When I bump into you in the #portal
You and I both say, “Ope.”

#SciFiPrompt #scifi #poetry #microfiction #PoetsOfMastodon #SciFiPoem @gus