CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Today sees the release of  Another 365 Days of Poetry , a brand new title in the C.M.'s Collections series,. Sporting a brand-new cover from Jake at JCaleb Design , Another 365 Days of Poetry is my latest collection of poetry. What's it About? 365 days more of poetry, with verse ranging from the future to the past, the spooky to the melancholic, classic forms to experimental. Whether it’s a lost colony ship, or vampires celebrating Christmas, this volume runs the gamut of science fiction through to horror and urban fantasy. Where can you Find It?   You can find this poetry collection at this Books2Read link , which will connect you to the e-stores that carry it: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a. And Today's Poem? Here you go - part of the inspiration for this volume's cover:   Planet-Hopping Pussy Cat   Lucky is as lucky does, or so says the cat in me, the one that’s used up all its lives, save the one you see, for this black pussy cat has ro...

Since I want to start posting updates on this project, I thought you might like to see the cover created for it by Jake at JCaleb Design . This is another installment in the C.M.'s Collections series and part of my 2022 Poetry Challenge , which I'll talk more about later. For now, here is the cover, and the poem from which I drew the brief that inspired Jake's art and design .   Evacuation   Written on April 7, 2022, for the January 10 entry in Yet Another 365 Days of Poetry, this science fiction piece is about a different kind of casualty in an interstellar war.   The thunder-drum of starships’ drives as, sleek and bulky, mixed craft rise a rapid exit in an emergency, a mercy run from a world near-gone, a swift lift from a planet done, whose heart’s blood leaps from a shattered core, whose people weep for a home no more, as they rush to quickly samples gather, creatures find and swiftly capture, that somewhere, somewhen, some small re...

  To celebrate this month's release of the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9 .   The Sky Child     Written on August 3, 2015, for the April 16 entry of 366 Days of Poetry , this piece imagines what a poet might say about a person born and raised on a deep-space freighter or transport.   The sky child wakes, screaming at the dawn, begs to be taken shipboard, where the air is stale and warm, begs to be let run and play in the stillness she can find within the starship’s metal hull, its climate-controlled confines.   The sky child was born amidst the stars on a spaceship running deep through the vacuum and the warp surrounded by the black. She has never felt a planet’s breeze, or played beneath a planet’s sky. The only suns she knows of are the mighty stars she passes by.     Grass holds a special terror, as does dirt...