The Void is a rose
dipped in liquid nitrogen
broken on an arctic shore

*********

These kids today...
doing mental calculus,
solving the fifth force,

wiring their DNA.
Free electricity is
no substitute for love.

*******

My thumb on the toggle
I swerved and topped the rim.
Machine below the waist.

It occurred to me
what you said when I signed up:
Remember your legs.

-- C.M. Ohlson,
quayyachts@coastalnet.com

caffeine warriors
burning endlessly
behind the dark screen

time
waits for no man
but
it just might
wait for me

dark thoughts
crept down the wires to
harvest my soul

crystal rain
bleeds back
into my eyes

-- Kim Northrop,
kimn@tansoft.com

How did Mars know
That it would shake us up so
By throwing a rock at us
So very long ago

Message from Mars
Sealed in a rock
You are not alone

Stephen Hawking postulates
Black Holes evaporate
I can't wait !

-- Dr. John Hynes,
jhynes@ibm.net

 She had to be powered down
She was no longer responding
   What else could I do?


There is no proof that
we were created by men
 that's human rumours

-- Michael Legman,
madmike@NAI.net

beautiful flowers
such an impenetrable shame
deadly to earthmen

I can't see clearly
battery is running low
what is this planet

-- Peter Lindberg (Helsinki, Finland),
peter.lindberg@ntc.nokia.com

Scottie can't repair-
& Kirks always in dispair-
Spock just got big ears-

escaped the lethal air-
Below the crumbled cities-
dark is mans home-

Can't get anywhere-
Stuck in this atmosphere-
without dylithium crystals-

silent holely Mother-
heats the warming glaciers-
feel the planets wraith-

This is just a UNIverse.

-- Barry Allman,
BAllman696@aol.com

                       the moon
                dark side unseen
           communications not heard

-- Don Bright,
brightd@nb.net

Flying high
above the clouds
the atmosphere

The night is endless
aircondition is low
on air

-- Elisabeth Söderström,
bettan@ludd.luth.se

New California
reverberates rain through its
icy web of lights

the cosmonaut smiles
at the tyrannosaur
recoil of his steps

the hydraulic
hiss
of her kiss

-- Ian Evans,
idevans@topdog.geneva.edu

My Monitor Off
A Crimson Code Appears
On Halloween Night

I Die...Watching
My Soul Leak Out To Join
A Living Sky

Bitter Wind,Bright Green Sun
My ears are bare and cold
Missing your furry paws

While the Hard Drive Whines
A Hand Moves Up
To Wipe Away A Tear

-- Lary Dial, Gonzo Information Technology
74014.1100@compuserve.com

1.

The silver gateway looms.
"Faster, beast!"
I have the prize.

2.

Perhaps I could pull
a wire or two
while it synthesizes breakfast?

3.

Morning. I kill
only spectrums, with crushed wings.
But victory is ours,
by the sting!

-- M. Linton
m.linton@lancs.ac.uk

Walking between two worlds,
I met my other self, and
killed him.

First man on mars, a
footprint in red sand.
It is not mine.......

Fires of Venus, sulfur
burns our lungs, as
angels pass nearby.

-- Patrick Mullins
pmullins@gatecom.com

Seal breaks and welcomes
Gas upon which we'd counted
Anticlimactic

-- Rian Schmidt
rian@twosense.com

SPACE HAIKU

Falling into the
Vortex: streams of stars guide me-
A new universe.

-- J. Edmundo Reyes
Quezon City, Philippines
otomed@mozcom.com

Your belly rising
interrupts
my view of Jean Luc Picard.

-- Eileen Tabios
ERTABIOS@aol.com

Jet of flame
In ebon darkness
Journey begins

-- Michael Mathweg
MATHWEGM@VAX1.BEMIDJI.MSUS.EDU

System failure.
Life support off-line
I close my eyes
Sleep

in dream
i kiss her glow
her golden emotion
fleeing from without

-- Scott Ross
RAWZZ@aol.com

slow modem

brain slow like last leaf
tentative fall
of seventeen bits

-- Steve
ss6r@fermi.clas.virginia.edu

my dearest Luna
how wonderful it must be
life has passed you by

glimpse starlight
cast before time
strikes two for eons

frozen forever
another brilliant sunrise
conciousness dies last

-- Kosmonaut
kosmonaut@prodigy.com

Trapped. Its breath and stench
all around me...my legs are gone
It keeps me alive

-- Jill F. Becker
m24925@mwunix.mitre.org

-- Anne Corwin
wckf28c@prodigy.com

Flying through black space
We gaze upon a dead star...
Silently, we weep.

In the seas of space-
Like a dolphin in silver skin
I swim through the stars.

-- Pam Smith
PamS14@aol.com

Miss it
when I'm not home.
Lovely Earthrise.

Hand is not
best gripping device,
but nice to shake.

Computers
with personality
are usually boring.

A lightyear is
long way to go
for a cat.

Diving into a black hole
for fun.

Found by a sunbeam,
like trolls
jupiterians explode.

Conned
by a martian.
Bought a channel.

Does a starship
caught in another dimension
still exist?

Returning astronaut
meets descendants
after 300 years.

Earth united
in war
against Denebs.

Crashed, still living,
already suffocating.
Earth air too thick.

Earth people love
bright sunshine.
Plutonians don't.

Vacuum inhabitants
usually have
low density.

After The Last War,
peace on Earth.
No humans left.

-- Eva Eriksson
eva.eriksson@halmstad.mail.telia.com

I read Brinck with new wonder
as my soul is pierced

hughm@prysm.com

from "Gravitational Wave Detector"

A beast named hippocampus
gets excited --
in an early evening of spring.

Upon a gravitational wave detector
sheds a torrent of rain!

I wonder
if there is a maximum prime number...
the Milky Way.

Under winter Galaxy
the Great Wall of China
has slightly moved__

-- Taku Nakajo or Yuri
pw7t-fjwr@asahi-net.or.jp

In the bleak darkness
Stars that lit the shuttle's night
Remain in memory

-- Jeremy Malcolm
terminus@odyssey.apana.org.au

at dawn
heavy frost
on the UFO landing site

sky-watching on the back porch
a falling star
changes direction

late night UFO movie
I leave the porch light on
for visitors

-- John Sheirer
as_jsheir@apollo.commnet.edu

Your hair of blonde silk -
cosmos crossing to find it
on Venus again.

-- roshi
bartke@stud.uni-frankfurt.de

Through the small portal
I see space, the stars,
as Empty as my soul.

Death is not death
and I dissolve into component energy
Reciting verse.

-- Nathaniel Roe
c675185@showme.missouri.edu or nroe01@mail.coin.missouri.edu

A true philosopher
would not have needed
to look at the sun.

What about
no negative numbers
this time?

-- James Hutchings
x@uts.edu.au

The orange sea gurgled
submarine outlined in slag,
molten; I'll be back!

-- Bruce Wyman
brucewyman@twics.com

Streams of numbers;
complex, transcendental, real.
They are my universe. Centuries march by
unknown, unknowable
from my frozen slumber

-- Mark Dowdey
mdowdey@mcimail.com, 0005948053@mcimail.com

sated and solid,
my vacuum.

ewd106@psu.edu

Kirk argues with Spock
Scotty, an alcoholic?
Bones is just bitchy.

-- Jeff Hobbs
jhobbs@hampshire.edu

i turn corners: the
fifth dimension, where all
stars remain the same

literature scoffs
but we still feel the beauty
of infinite life

-- Caitlin Shaw
cmshaw@princeton.edu

vessels flying into sun
autopilot software buggy

-- Mike Shapiro
mshapiro@chaph.usc.edu

dreams fade
my last cable pulled

on blackhole's edge
indecision
drifts me in

we passed in hyperspace
no time
to notice

more than a planet
does teraforming
form

we've reached the stars
for ourselves do we go further?
or closer?

-- Todd Hoff
tmh@possibility.com
See more of Todd's SciFaiku Poetry

"For John C. Lilly"

Old friend of dolphins,
perhaps in dreams they hear you
speaking their language.

The moon's a portrait
of the earth, like Dorian
Gray's in the attic.

Behold the green star!
In its light mutations crawl
who know us in dreams.

She worships a sun
grown fearsome with mad photons:
father of her child.

-- Keith Allen Daniels (these 4 poems copyright 1992)
kdaniels@ix.netcom.com
See more of his poems at The Apokalyptikon: Poems for the New Millenium

Simple butterfly
Wails a cry under my boot.
I have no more time.

The ability
To destroy a planet is
Insignificant.

Symetrical cube
Visits my home and culture.
Assimilated.

-- M. Hallaron
hallaron@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu

Supernova,
Destroys an ancient world,
Burns my eyes.

-- Adam Brown
gemini@cybertap.com

Seven moons on high,
Moon dragons mate, males drift down,
burning like dry leaves

Morality chips
Puritanical watchdogs
lurking in my mind

At the old starport,
only children wait and dream
of the starfreighters.

On junkyard planet,
scanning for its lost master.
Little robot roams

Electronic probes
ripping out dreams like loose threads,
unraveling souls.

Solar Sail

Void mariners
riding the solar zephyr.
Dandelion seed

-- Dave Niedens
twilight@mcs.com

TV yellow boots
Kick up puffs of moon dust
To crest the next ridge

-- Lynda Wittstone
lwittsto@moon.pepperdine.edu

Through starry tapestries we flee
      sleeping fitfully
  chasing photons, we dream
      while Earth dies.


       Glowing starfields,
  Matter spirals into singularity,
       fusion flame flares,
       membranes nictitate.


  Unexplored planet,
  art depicts bipeds,
 where have they gone?


 Brand new Universe
  Order from Chaos:
 Humanity triumphs!


  Nested dodecahedrons
   and quantum theory
the doorways to infinity;
      Many Worlds.

-- Jeffrey D. Romano
jromano@tiac.net

Planet of Bur' rats
Is caught in deadly time warp!
Beam me up, Scott--!

Juxtaposing,
The two moons create an aurora
Reflected in her laser-blue eyes

just before blast off
aboard the First Millenium
a thought: good-bye, earth

travelling at lightspeed --
he wonders, did he forget
to turn off the lights back home

-- Juanito Escareal
Juanito.Escareal@ucop.edu

up here you whispered

to come up here i whispered
i'll have to give up the ground
strap down, i'm the bride

-- Larry Treadway
larry@lfucg.com

Beyond the comforting
Walls of steel,
Emptiness and cold death
Await me.

-- Jennifer D'Agostino
UDAGOJ@lake.ollusa.edu

Pilgrims

Starlight shifts to blue
and like ancient colonists
we will not look back

-- Mark D Zollinger
mzollinger@esri.com

the loneliest sound in the universe
is that
of the last heartbeat

-- Brenda Lee Eccles
brenda.eccles1@sheridanc.on.ca

Wirehead ghosts ensnared
in a digital despair.
Just so much line noise.

-- Dave Niedens
twilight@mcs.com

Grasping hold of his tricorder
He looks at me askance, green blood
Could it be Vulcan jealousy?

-- Mark Fischman
mafisch@engin.umich.edu

Twin moons setting
her tail tickled his nose

trees icy black and wet
against a pink sky
tentacles shiver

-- Heather Johnson (Poet Chick)
poetchic@gladstone.uoregon.edu
and Bob Cappel (CyberBeat)

Flaming muzzled cyberhound
takes the turn too fast:
suicide charge takes twenty souls.

Magnetic tazer fanblades
weave around each other
seeking your flesh.

In seven-tenths of a second
eleven wounds may kill you

wetware explosion
hooks ripping through the cortex:
nano-coup complete

-- Dave Richardson
KKZZ50A@prodigy.com

Blast the evil planet
Death to the alien race
Watch them die

-- Anonymous

Spring showers
my best friend
rusts.

-- Greg Pass
gregpass@cs.cornell.edu

Awakened from sleep
My ship has set a new course
Fly into the sun

-- Jack Nutting
jnutting@is.com

Smoking on the porch at night.
Contemplate the beauty
of Phong illumination.

I did not believe.
He said
When my robots storm
your front lawn
you will understand.

-- Christopher Kline
ckline@acm.org

Star Trek and Star Wars
Learning all there is to know
Time to leave it be

73571.137@compuserve.com"

He looked up - amazed
And saw the flash of light
Just as they left - forever

-- Seth Gifford Blaylock
blaylock@itsnet.com

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