caution held as high virtue
human did compute
scenarios play
logic guide to stars
avoid beast unleashed
a wonderful time
living, not dying
our future arrived
a hybrid life
possibilities endless
here's to me, and you.
© January 24, 2026 | baccusbee
(Words mine. Image created with Grok, a collabortive process called synthography.)
Here I am again expressing a little optimism through this scifaiku. Though I fully understand the words of caution from science fiction authors, I also realize there's room for optimal outcomes in storytelling and poetry. Don't get me wrong, I love a good suspenseful, "on the edge of your seat" narrative too, it's just the world I want to see comes out a lot of time in the things I write.
Our words matter.
I've never been one for romance novels and tend to gravitate towards science fiction and speculative fiction when I'm in the mood for settling in with a good book. H.G. Wells, 'The Time Machine' was a beloved bedtime story for me and my child when they were little.
Naturally, when I discovered scifaiku it appealed to my poetic heart and I felt I must give penning scifaiku a try.
Note: The link in the next paragraph for Tom Brinck is an older enthusiast site and still uses HTTP, so your browser might flag it as 'not secure'.
Scifaiku is a form of science fiction or speculative poetry announced by Tom Brinck with his Scifaiku Manifesto published in July 1995.
Scifaiku follows the haiku model, including its spirit of minimalism.
While traditional Japanese haiku usually has 3 phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on ("sound symbols"), haiku in English usually has seventeen (or fewer) syllables.
Scifaiku is even more flexible and may be shorter or longer (allowing for longer technical terms, e.g. anisomorphism), although most often still written, as English language haiku, in three lines.
Before there was scifaiku, Karen Anderson wrote 'Six Haiku', which is recognized as the first published science fiction haiku in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July 1962.
More of my science fiction poetry can be found here, including Android Interface and Android Inner Space .
Thanks for reading this far-
baccus bee
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