Sci-fi poem "My Alien Love" (one of my attempts at penning a sonnet) originally published August 2008 in Issue 300 of the webzine Bewildering Stories. Also published September 2008 in Bewildering Stories Third Quarterly Review, 2008 Editors’ Choices: issues 297-307 and August 2023 in the now out-of-print Cosmic Journeys and Gothic Visions: A Speculative Poetry Collection.
My Alien Love
My love’s maroon face lights up the dim night
Whenever she is snuggled next to me.
Her thousand-and-one pale eyes glitter bright
Like starlit sparkles in a wine dark sea.
I take her seven-fingered hands in mine
And swear a solemn promise to be true.
Her sorrel tentacles, so soft and fine,
Pulse with electric lights, both white and blue.
She came to me one clear and lonely eve
As I stared up at the wide, starry sky.
Some call her a beast and say I should leave,
But I could not bear to bid her goodbye.
Must I be doomed to a sad, loveless fate,
When my heart only yearns for a soul mate?
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