there’s a gun in my pocket heavy with the essence of another man’s soul still swirling in the smoky barrel in this dark corner of this lonely and forgotten bar is the man who played Thanatos and brought to inevitable conclusion the yearnings of a single human life in this corner, sipping cheap whiskey and […]
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4 Ways Technology Can Beat Writer’s Block
There’s a lot of tips and tricks on how to bear writer’s block. Ultimately, as we all know, the only way to beat writer’s block is to simply write. Still, there’s something to be said for kickstarting your creative thought process. Ideas come from the strangest places. Most of us nowadays write on our computers, […]
Continue readingIt Hurts (Poem)
I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom lately; she passed away in November, 2010. This is for her. when I was five and life was a song of excitement and innocence the world was full of mystery and I had never felt the pain of hurt or loss of any kind and then one day a playmate pushed me right off the swing you picked me up brushed me off told me not to cry ‘mommy,’ I said, ‘it hurts’ when I was sixteen and in love for the first time to a young Cuban girl I felt like an adult doing adult things dates and kissing and groping and late-night phone calls with the cord stretched and twisted through the house and under my door and then one day she left me for another teenage crush and I felt world-ending anguish burning, hot, consuming as only a teenager can feel them you held me close told me I’d be ok ‘but mom,’ said I, ‘it hurts.’ when I was thirty-five at the end of my marriage holding on to it with desperate and futile hands trying to be a good father to my sons who put me on a pedestal high enough to rival the gods I fought depression […]
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It was a Saturday evening, my wife and I ambled into the bookstore with steaming hot cups of coffee in our hands. The warm air breathed sensually across my face and down my neck, smelling faintly of paper, glue, and memories of childhood. It felt good, that warm blanket of air that wrapped around us […]
Continue readingA Justification for Scifaiku
I wrote this a number of years ago for publication in a long-forgotten online magazine that is now defunct. Since I have been talking scifaiku on Twitter with some people lately, I thought I’d republish. Enjoy! The Role of Science Fiction in Poetry A justification for scifaiku Recently, while trying to define and explain “scifaiku” […]
Continue readingSciFaiku Digest #1
Just a dump of some of my scifaiku. Some are decent. Some are crap. Enjoy! climbing trees a thirteen-year-old Legolas 01/20/14 microscope eyepiece reveals a tiny figure waving at me 07/29/13 ancient fossil embedded in sediment wearing bluetooth 07/29/13 inside the pentagram flickering in candlelight; hot sauce 07/29/13 fighting ourselves […]
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haiku #8 (2014)
obscured by my breath rocket rising in the east I forget I’m cold © Ron Sparks Watched the NASA TDLR-L Atlas 5 rocket launch this evening. The picture above was taken from my neighborhood on my iPhone over 50 miles from the launch. Awesome.
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my dogs fidget, bitter draft under the door – outside, the storm howls © Ron Sparks
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mini cyclone swirls in my yard – leaves moving in circles © Ron Sparks
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