A Christmas Blessing

A Christmas Blessing

May you be filled with the wonder of Mary, the obedience of Joseph, the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the shepherds, the determination of the magi, and the peace of the Christ child. Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit bless you now and forever.

Pax et bonum

Memorial Service Pictures

Pax et bonum

Science Fiction and Horror Poetry

Over the years I have published a number of science fiction and horror poems. They are mostly haiku/senryu, thought there are other forms mixed in. Yes, the haiku are not classic/true haiku, but they are still fun to write and read. 

The list so far:

A doctor from South Aldersgate (limerick) Weird Tales August/September 2006

alien banquet - Random Planets 2019

apocalypse comes – Scifaikuest  AUG 2021 PRINT

at his sentencing - Scifaikuest November 2023

blind date takes - Scifaikuest November 2023 

Clouds shrouding (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023

Halloween costume (werewolf) – Scifaikuest online, February 2023

Last words (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023

“life form” (cinquain) in Scifaikuest May 2018

mining rights sold” Random Planets 2019

mining rights sold  Rochester Area Haiku Group 2020 Members’ Anthology

mirror with a painting (vampire teen) – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022)

New colonist (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023 

on the asteroid - Scifaikuest February 2019

researcher turns on - Scifaikuest November 2023

Robot’s valentine - Scifaikuest, February 2017

snow on snow on snow – Scifaikuest AUG 2021 ONLINE

Supernova - Scifaikuest – online – February 2017

the calculations Scifaikuest AUG 2021 ONLINE

The thirsting (saturne) - Scifaikuest February 2023 

through the rubble - Scifaikuest  AUG 2021 PRINT

time travel mishap – Scifaikuest online, February 2023

trying to recall - Skifaikuest February 2019 

     trying to recall – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022) 

two moons (cinquain) – Random Planets 2019

watching as the clone – Failed Haiku Volume 7 Issue 74 (February 2022) 

There are a couple of more scheduled for publication in Scifaikuest in February 2026 - yes, they are working that far out!

And I'm about to submit some more.

Pax et bonum

Gogyohka - he leaned in

I've some across a form of poetry that could lend itself to science fiction poetry: The gogyohka.

It's a relatively new poetry form based on Tanka poetry.
It has five lines.
Each line of consists of one phrase with a line-break after each phrase or breath.
There are no restraints on numbers of words or syllables.
The theme unrestricted.

The form was created early in the 20th Century, but didn't get a name until 1983!

My first attempt at a science fiction one:

he leaned in

to smell the roses

only to learn

they weren't roses

and they were hungry 

I might try more.

Pax et bonum

Peanut the Squirrel, RIP

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American Solidarity Party Results

I am a member of the American Solidarity Party. I joined it in 2016. I ran as an ASP write-in candidate for Gates Town Board in 2023.  I got 86 votes even though I only entered the race at the end of September.

The Party was created in 2011, and it was incorporated in 2016, the first year it ran a Presidential candidate. 

Here are the results nationally, and in New York, where the Party so far has only been able to run its candidates as write-ins.

2016 (Mike Maturen/Juan Muñoz): 6,697 - though not all states reported results; 409 in New York
2020 (Brian Carroll/Amar Patel): 42,305; 999 in New York

We'll see how we do in 2024.

Pax et bonum

Skateboarding Limerick

The once was a young man from Gates,
whose skateboarding tempted the fates.
He tried a new trick,
but landed on brick -
now six months of rehab awaits.

Pax et bonum