Saturday, August 23, 2025

Sci-Fi Poem "Alien Heaven, Otherworldly Hell"


Here's a sci-fi poem that was exclusive to my now out-of-print speculative poetry collection, meaning it hadn't been previously published in a small-press zine or anthology.

Alien Heaven, Otherworldly Hell

Majestic red sun
Hospitable world
Churning pink oceans
Fresh ionized air
Rolling purple plains
Vermillion forests
Peaceful asylum
Welcome paradise

Exhausted blue star
Forsaken planet
Fractured glacial seas
Ravaged atmosphere
Dark craggy bluffs
Jagged ebon spires
Perilous prison 
Frozen inferno

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