Help! Need Examples of Space Haiku Immediately

[Tracy]

Won't bore everybody with details, but if you've got an example  (doesn't have to be your own; I'll credit accordingly) of an outerspace/ space exploration piece, please let me know and I'll fill you in on my latest project.  Great exposure for haiku poet, really, really tight deadline.

[Julie B. K.]

Hi Tracy:

I write scifaiku along with haiku. From your post, I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly, but these are two of mine that might work. I have others, but these were the closest to what I suspect is your theme.


first year in space:
toasting our future         
with a bag of champagne

- Julie Bloss Kelsey
(appeared in Scifaikuest's print issue, August 2013)
 

at the telescope array
intermittent burbling       
from the coffee pot

- Julie Bloss Kelsey
(appeared in Scifaikuest's online issue, August 2013)


Let me know if this helps.

Julie B K

[AlanSummers]

Hi Tracy,

These were part of a commission a few years back about the race to the moon that I did with respected Space Historian Piers Bizony:

umbilical cord-
a space man’s first
baby steps

Alan Summers
Publications credits: “Rocket Dreams” commission
Read/performed U.K. National Poetry Day October 4th 2007 with Space Historian Piers Bizony and NASA images, as part of World Space Week: The Haiku Foundation's Per Diem: Daily Haiku December 2012  (31 poems): Children


deep space
it seeps into
my vertical bed

Alan Summers
Publications credits: World Space Week Rocket Dreams commission 2007; Eye to the Telescope (Issue 1 • May 2011 The Long and Short of Speculative Poetry edited by Samantha Henderson & Deborah P Kolodji)


Sputnik satelite
a solar flare picks out
a rivet

Alan Summers
Publications credits: “Rocket Dreams” commission 2007; tinywords.com (2007)


escape velocity
the moon pulls oceans
behind Apollo 11

Alan Summers
Publications credits: “Rocket Dreams” commission 2007


Rocket Dreams: The Race to the Moon

4 day trip
to the moon-
“the cats take it easy”

deep space silence
the moon inbetween
the beeps n’bleeps

Houston,
Tranquility Base here,
the Eagle has landed

Jules Verne novel-
the columbiad cannon
becomes reality

Buzz’s footprint…
standing the test of time
and regolith

visor reflection—
first man on the moon
on record

slippery surfaces
Buzz plans seven steps ahead
in kangeroo hops

private communion
an earth-based lawsuit
becomes lunacy

felt tip pen
it becomes the engine switch
Aldrin broke

space week—
another boyscout
watches moonrise

Alan Summers
Publication Credits:
Dark Pens, a journal of moon haiku (1.1 2013)
1st Issue March 2013 http://www.darkpens.com/


sciencefiction

mars landing-
a tendril of red dust
shifts from a footfall

Alan Summers
Publications credits: tinywords (2007); Dylan Tweney “Practical Haiku: How Reading and Writing an Ancient Form of Poetry Can Change Your Life.” (ebook 2010)

Won't bore everybody with details, but if you've got an example  (doesn't have to be your own; I'll credit accordingly) of an outerspace/ space exploration piece, please let me know and I'll fill you in on my latest project.  Great exposure for haiku poet, really, really tight deadline.

[Tracy]

Hi Julie and Alan,

I would like to use poems from both of you as examples in a radio interview that tapes tonight.  I need your permission.  Write me through my website www.TracyKoretsky.com.

I will also check back here.

[AlanSummers]

Hi Tracy,

You have my permission to use my poems as examples in your radio interview.

warm regards,

Alan

Hi Julie and Alan,

I would like to use poems from both of you as examples in a radio interview that tapes tonight.  I need your permission.  Write me through my website www.TracyKoretsky.com.

I will also check back here.

[Julie B. K.]

Hi Tracy:

You also have my permission to use my poems in your interview. Good luck tonight! It sounds exciting.

Julie B K

[Tracy]

Thanks to both of you.  I will use your poems to support examples in the interview.  How the final piece will be edited is beyond my control.  The story will air in the UK Sat. at 6 am on the BBC World Service, but I will have a link etc. after it runs.

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[AlanSummers]

That's great!

I feel the BBC's World Series is still incredibly important.

Thanks for the opportunity and look forward to listening to the link.

warm regards,

Alan

Thanks to both of you.  I will use your poems to support examples in the interview.  How the final piece will be edited is beyond my control.  The story will air in the UK Sat. at 6 am on the BBC World Service, but I will have a link etc. after it runs.

--t