NASA Artemis Il astronaut Christina Koch is staring out a viewport of the Orion spacecraft. Her face and floating hair are silhouetted against the Earth in background. Christina is the first woman to see the Earth in its entirety. Overlaying the image is Alan Vincent Michaels’ scifaiku: Christina’s Countdown The longing between Gazing at her first full Moon All of us on Earth

Christina’s Countdown

The longing between
Gazing at her first full Moon
All of us on Earth

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#ScifaikuSaturday #countdown

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Countdown to the race
Drop your wings and run real fast
Run faster to fly

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#ScifaikuSaturday #amwriting #scifi #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #SciFiSat #sciencefiction #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #HaikuSaturday #MicroPoem #Poets #BlueSkyPoet #Fantaiku

Interstellar vibe
Countdown to eternity
Starting with this breath

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday countdown

Sit as it echoes -
the space emperor's countdown
to be served or else.
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku

anthropocene
the final countdown
for orangutans

#SciFaikuSaturday (countdown) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

#SciFaikuSaturday

The ship rode on the
Gravitational wave front
Through the galaxy.

#Scifaikusaturday

After the new countdown
Those now telling globe pictures
Streamers of thin cloud

Faster and faster
Countdown to Armageddon
Tick, tick, tickticktick

#ScifaikuSaturday

A poetry graphic with a foreground text and background picture. The foreground text reads: Alone. Warm night sun on sand shore; Sunlit dust. Waves on waters deep. So... You're the last one. Accepting Darkness: Dim trust. Dreams in endless sleep. Still—Is this all done? Call of Time. Countdown to rust. No life left to keep. The background image shows: An old alien sits alone at a beach of orange sand beneath a purple sunset.

There's a theory that DNA/RNA bio data is a genetic life signal. With limited sequence combinations, every species must inevitably be... Doomed? Evolved?

The challenge prompts were:
1. Countdown
2. Accepting Darkness
3. Sand

#scifi #ScifaikuSaturday #poetry #vss365 #OurPoetryX

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Sadly, the flip side
Of a countdown is that you
Might have to stay down🛸

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#ScifaikuSaturday #amwriting #scifi #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #SciFiSat #sciencefiction #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #HaikuSaturday 🚀 #UFO #MicroPoem #Poets #BlueSkyPoet #Fantaiku 🙏RP❤️

a memory:
penultimate
systems go

generational anxiety
awakens

#ScifaikuSaturday (Countdown)
#tanka (compressed)

alternative:

a memory:
penultimate
systems go

holding breath
our fear of numbers
awakening

#haiku

anthropocene
the final countown
for orangutans

#SciFaikuSaturday (countdown) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

Abstract fire based image closeup.

Tungsten rings pulsate
Countdown to speed of light drive
Time sacred no more
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#vss365 #ring
#scifaikusaturday #countdown
#haiku #senryu
#photography #abstract

human extinction
launching their own countdown
the birds and the bees
#ScifaikuSaturday

about sixteen hours
one thousand twenty one days
countdown to freedom
#scifaikusaturday

arrogant buffoons
now two minutes to midnight
doomsday clock countdown
#scifaikusaturday

Image by Adtiya Vyas on Unsplash. Black, dark, with fuzzy snow drifting close to the camera and far away. Cold, bleak.

photons dissipate
it is cold near the world's end
the snows of heat death

#SciFaikuSaturday #haiku #scifi #Scifaiku #countdown

prompt: countdown

a black and white number 5 is on a metal surface ALT: a black and white number 5 is on a metal surface

when disaster rings
the famous countdown begins:
Thunderbirds are go

#vss365 #ring #scifaikusaturday #countdown #haiku #thunderbirds

Watching the countdown,
a host of suppressed fears launched,
to the Moon and back.

#ScifaikuSaturday
#countdown
#Artemis2
#haiku

Monte Cristo’s Count’s
Unfriendly supercargo
Down for hyper-sleep

#scifaikusaturday #haiku

The numbers count down
Journey to the stars starts soon
Anticipation

#SciFaikuSaturday Prompt: Countdown #SciFaiku

On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.

The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 04 April 2026 is 🔄 ⬇️🚦🚀

#COUNTDOWN

🚀👽🛸🖊️👍

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts

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#WritingPrompts 4

#HorrorWritersChat
#30WordThursday
#BookologyThursday
#ThursThreads
#TankaThursday
#SFFChat
#WeeknightWriters
#SciFiFri
#BornBattleReady
#PoemsAbout
#LesFicFri
#FridayFlashFics
#QueerWritersChat
#VSSMagic
#SciFiSat*
#Fantaiku
#SciFaikuSaturday
#HaikuSaturday

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Mother & child walking up a hill

#ScifaikuSaturday #vsstimetravel #HaikuChallenge #oxjDailyWords
Mother who Nurture
Comfort in Formative years
Mold into adults
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in search of the logical song
the vulcan research vessel crew
were mind blown when they
were met by the cacaphony
of the magic carpet ride
one never knows what
one gets on first contact . . .

#scifaikusaturday [mind]

Illusive weird songs
Tones foster evil ear worms
Distorting one's mind

#satsplat #ScifaikuSaturday #vss365

star gazing
the expanding universe
blowing my mind

#SciFaikuSaturday (mind) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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Who minds all the stars,
Sees to the circling systems'
Illusive music?

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#ScifaikuSaturday mind #amwriting #fantasy #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #poet #WritingCommunity #SciFiSat #scifi #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #HaikuSaturday #poem #ScifiSat #MicroPoem #Poets #SFF #BlueSkyPoet #vss365

A poetry graphic with a foreground text and background picture. The foreground text reads: Face the inner ache: Illusive dreams; hidden sights all for us to find. The risk we must take! First Steps into the warm night. The stars... all aligned. The journey we make — sunlit dust in stellar flight, scenes release the Mind. The background image shows: The Federation star ship Enterprise flying through a purple nebula.

Don't just go after your dreams – Boldly go!

The challenge prompts were:
1. Mind
2. First Steps
3. Illusive

#scifi #ScifaikuSaturday #poetry #vss365 #OurPoetryX

Glimmers of light upon dark skies.

please pay them no #mind
#illusive lights in the sky
only raise false hopes
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#vss365 #haiku
#scifaikusaturday
#photography #sky