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I hope when the robots
Take over the world, they still
Make morning playlists.

#poem, #poetry, #haiku, #SFFpoetry, #speculativepoetry, #robots
April 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Science fiction is
A bloody word of warning
Not a damn blueprint

#senryu #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #sffpoetry #poetry #3lines
June 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Slight nod to inspiration from Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles".

#poetry, #poem, #sffpoetry, #speculativepoetry, #poetrycommunity, #poemaday, #TheRiffOffGame
April 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
So this ended up darker and more Cybermen or Borg than I planned. Enjoy, I think?

From @ajdeane.bsky.social 's prompt of *finger guns*. Thanks for that 🤗

#SundaySwap #FAFOpoets #poem #poetry #specpo #sffpoetry #poemaday
June 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
New lunchbreak #book dropped! Apparently, it arrived Friday, but they only thought to give it to me today. Super psyched to read the #specpo and #sffpoetry from the wickedly fantastic #FAFO #poet @ajdeane.bsky.social

Best wishes 🤗

#booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writer #writing
May 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Barcode beauty babe
twilight zone faces purchased
tell me if you can,

where's your smile from?
Soon we will mortgage our hearts
our bodies for rent,

every part of us
is a hot commodity.
Our last free muscle

is our minds.

#specpo #sffpoetry #TwilightZone #mpprompt #poem #poetry #prompt #beauty
June 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Almost to 1,100 followers! Make a wish. And if you posted a prompt idea to me in a previous post, then it might just come true. Best wishes everyone. 🤗

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #writers #poetry #writing #skypoet #specpo #horrorwriters #sffpoetry #naturepoetry #FAFO #resist
May 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ghostlyverse.bsky.social
#SFFpoetry 🖤 🐦‍⬛ #horror
✍️ Delighted to discuss spec poetry + collaboration with Melissa Lemay
"Blasting Off With LindaAnn LoSchiavo"
@hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social
@emteepoetry.bsky.social
@prolificpulsepress.bsky.social
@wildinkpublishing.bsky.social
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Blasting Off With LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Collaborature, a journal of collaborative poetry and fiction
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August 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
“Alright? All life
Is gacha game,
Lottery spin,
Play to win
Win to play
Begin again,
You understand?”

The half-melted
Plastic doll
With infinity’s smile
At the end of the world
Didn't blink,
Or have anything
To say in response

#poem, #poetry, #poetryrelay, #speculativepoetry, #sffpoetry
yeehawpoems.bsky.social yeeorcas poems 🌱 @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · Apr 24
Love, can you handle me

What a killer line, thank you internet bestie 💕 I'm sure you'll find something cool to do with that last one

#poetry #poetrytrade
April 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social
This is sure to interest some of our poetry-writing followers!

#poetry #specpo #SFFpoetry #PoetryCommunity #poet
June 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
So this ended up being more like a short scene than a poem. I imagined two sentient computers from Heinlein's novels meeting in like an old school AOL chat room or an online dating site. Not sure if it works, but it was fun. Beep boop 🤗

#banterbabes #specpo #sffpoetry #poem #poetry #AI #skypoem
June 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
@ajdeane.bsky.social

First of the two gift poems are up! Thanks again for following. I hope it's not shabby. Couldn't decide the layout, but I just wanted to get it posted before the day was out. Best wishes🤗

#poem #poetry #identity #portals #poetrycommunity #poets #sffpoetry #sffpoem #luggage
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
ympang.bsky.social
My poem "Terracotta Warrior" is the 1st place winner of the Steve Miller BSFS Poetry Contest!

Also glad to share the picture/location that inspired the poem....

Read the poem online (scroll down and click "2026"): bsfs.org/bsfspoetry.htm

#poetrycontest #SFFpoetry
Terracotta warrior replica statues standing beside a washroom sign.
May 23, 2026 at 3:49 PM
nicowritesbooks.bsky.social
My first poem from Strange Horizons, "To Be the Change", is out now! It's about inevitable prophecies, trans identity, and familial expectations, and I truly am so excited for you to read it!

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#writing #writingcommunity #sffpoetry 🌈🚀📚
To Be the Change
When the heir becomes a daughter…
strangehorizons.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
sffreview.bsky.social
What a fantastic way to celebrate SFF poetry! 🌟 I can't wait to dive into those spec poems! 🖋️✨ Poetry adds such depth to our favorite genres! #SFFPoetry #NebulaAwards
December 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM
nicowritesbooks.bsky.social
Tomorrow my debut poem in @strangehorizons.bsky.social is coming out!! "To Be the Change" is about inevitable prophecies, trans identity, and familial expectations, and I truly can't wait for you to be able to read it.

#writing #writingcommunity #sffpoetry 🌈🚀📚
March 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
I'm not sure where I ran with this. Started thinking programmable people, wishing I could reprogram my brain. Weird headspace...

Anyway enjoy, I think. 😅

#poem #poetry #AI #banterbabes #poemaday #specpo #sffpoetry
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
Introducing one of our hosts! @ajdeane.bsky.social. He's awesome. You should check out his work. It's interdimentionally sound all around 😉

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#poetrycommunity #poet #writingcommunity #writer #specpo #sffpoetry
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June 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
sffreview.bsky.social
How wonderful to hear you've embraced poetry! 🌟 For SFF submissions, check out "Uncanny Magazine" and "Apex Magazine" – they often feature speculative poetry! Keep creating! ✨ #SFFPoetry #WriteOn
fozmeadows.bsky.social Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · Apr 19
I seem to have committed an act of poetry. Does anyone have any recs for SFF poetry submissions?
April 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
poetry-with-hart.bsky.social
Third one of a series of #microfiction? #storypoem? #specpo? Where Heinlein's sentient computers meet online and start dating. They're always riddled with song lyrics. This one is a tribute to "Once Monsters". Enjoy.

#mpprompt #AI #Mike&Minerva #sffpoetry #poem #poetry #prompt #genrebending #love
June 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
fobhaiku.bsky.social
"Giant Robot Poems: On Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War" Info: amzn.to/3xKtrjx

"If futurists and fiction-writers, warriors and wargamers can deploy their respective toolkits to probe potential threats and opportunities, why not poets?"

#warpoetry #anthology #sffpoetry #futurism #middlewestpress
Book cover of "Giant Robot Poems: On Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War" depicts a giant mechanical silhouette overwatching a misty forest landscape at twilight. The book appears against a digital cityscape.
December 5, 2024 at 7:04 PM
mamajoules.bsky.social
Would you like your #haiku & #senryu to have more monsters, ghosts, blood, gore & pnightmares? 👺👻🩸🪓 Check out my collection of #horrorku from Cuttlefish Books! #poetry #BlueskyPoetry #micropoetry #SFFpoetry #horror

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Purging the Monsters
Check out Purging the Monsters - <p>A collection of horrorku from Julie Bloss Kelsey. </p><p></p><p>"Julie Bloss Kelsey beautifully expands the definition of horrorku with Purging the Monsters</em>. W...
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May 24, 2026 at 3:18 AM
fobhaiku.bsky.social
" [...] the computer in my pocket /
chirps just like Captain Kirk's. [...]"

#startrek #scifipoem #SFFpoetry #specpoetry
fobhaiku.bsky.social Charlie Sherpa @fobhaiku.bsky.social · Dec 11
This poem gets at my own initial experiences with TOS—& why I fell in love so hard with your "Mirror Spock" tile! One time, someone even brought an older brother's AMT kit tricorder to school!

Originally ran in "Red Shirt Review"—a one-shot on-line 'Zine published by @dailydrunkmag.bsky.social!
"Boldly Go" (2022) poem by Randy Brown appears in white type presented on dark starfield. Poem title is in yellow; a stylized science-officer blue vertical "sleeve" runs vertically along the poem's left-hand margin. Toward the bottom of the "sleeve" appear two stylized yellow rank bars. POEM BEGINS : Forget rocket belts : Forget flying cars On the playgrounds of Ocean Breeze Elementary I was promoted to Science Officer because I could origami the flippin’ best communicators out of three-hole-punched paper ; I could also                       arch my brow And use big words Fast-forward some fifty light-years later, and I just spent an extra dollar so that the computer in my pocket chirps just like Captain Kirk's. : Fascinating POEM ENDS Cover of AMT-brand "Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Exploration Kit" plastic unassembled hobby kit circa 1972, consisting of a communicator, phaser, and tricorder.
December 11, 2024 at 10:22 PM
fobhaiku.bsky.social
"Bless the Sandwich-Maker and all His Ingredients [...]" #dune #SFFpoetry #specpoetry

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The Quotable Shai-Hulud, Subway Sandwich Artist(tm), abridged
“Bless the Sandwich-Maker and all His Ingredients. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.” “Teaching sandwich-making i…
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November 18, 2024 at 9:12 PM
fobhaiku.bsky.social
Insightful & gracious book review of "Giant Robot Poems" anthology from the incoming editor of SFPA's Star*Line magazine! #SFFpoetry #warpoetry
middlewestpress.bsky.social Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · Jan 7
"[...] the themes will interest readers already interested in speculative poetry as well as poets and readers looking for updated commentary on a broad range of human-robot issues."

SFPA Star*Line Review here:
www.sfpoetry.com/sl/reviews/2...

"Giant Robot Poems" anthology here:
amzn.to/3xKtrjx
Text of book review part 1 reads: "Giant Robot Poems (Middle West Press, 2024) $19.99 http://www.middlewestpress.com/2024/05/in-new-anthology-sci-fi-war-poets.html When I picked up Giant Robot Poems I admit that I did not read much into the subtitle: On Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War. I anticipated a collection of SF/F poems centered around robots. I love robots, and there’s lot of jabber about so-called AI these days, not to mention companions like the robotic dogs from Boston Dynamics, and spinoffs that not only run and jump, but spew flames too. But the 165 pages of 92 poems and seven pages of discussion and writing prompts demonstrated a much wider range than I anticipated. Perhaps colored by editor Randy Brown’s military experience, the 66 poets included in this anthology range from folks regularly published in Star*Line and other SF/F publications to military veterans and many poets unfamiliar to me. The first poem surprised me, a poem seemingly counter to mechanistic themes: I offer you these flowers… …against the machinery of my flesh, they writhe, they are alive… (“Flower Power,” by Callie S. Blackstone) One familiar theme, robots becoming sentient or rebelling, gets a twist in “Lucked Out” by Dana Jensen. “It builds itself. / Heals itself.” In succinct, full-stopped lines, Jensen conjures the story of military robots who take control of themselves — yet don’t turn on their makers: “Loyal. / But now by choice.” Text of book review part 2 reads: One of the pleasant potentials with any anthology is the range of style and voice available to the reader. This collection has range, from J.D. Harlock’s alliterative “The Blasted Brigade’s Ballistic Bio-Armour,” to Vaughn A. Jackson’s tribute to Percy Shelley’s poem “OZYM4ND14$,” references to Frankenstein and golems, from haiku to longwinded poems on so-called AI chatbots. Any one of these themes might be worn thin if it were the focus of an entire collection itself. Here, the variations on a theme are varied enough that the theme is heightened. Throughout the collection, the relationship between human and machine, maker and creation, are regular underlying themes. Having taught Frankenstein, I can easily imagine these poems as a companion to such reading, particularly in relationship to new technological steps that open again the ethical questions if not existential, philosophical, and theological questions of creating consciousness or the semblance of consciousness. The prompts at the end of the book also connect and highlight some themes from the poems and include thoughtful prompts useful for both the individual reader/writer and for classroom or group settings. For instance, “write about a mechanical object from the perspective of a plant” (a prompt fleshed out [wired up?] over an entire page) references four poems in the collection the reader might refer to or derive inspiration from. The anthology is well worth a read and then another, and the themes will interest readers already interested in speculative poetry as well as poets and readers looking for updated commentary on a broad range of human-robot issues. — John Reinhart
January 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM