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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

The 11 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#WAR

✍️ 👽 🛸 👍

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

A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the person’s view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.

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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 2h

#NYCC Announcement: Into That Darkness Peering, written by me and illustrated by Marika Brousianou is coming to @globalcomix.com on October 15th.

#read our , #EdgarAllanPoe inspired #gothic #horror collection on the platform just in time for #spookyseason. It’s the perfect #book for #halloween.

A black rectangle with a book cover on it. Into That Darkness Peering, by A. A. Rubin and Marika Brousianou. Text on the box has the title and “on global comix October 15.

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 3h

etched and imperfect
war mind offerings
navigating bombs

#ScifaikuSaturday #haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 3h

vivid reminders
of the war — scattered poppies
in an astral field
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SciFaikuSaturday

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Eric Lahti @ericlahti.bsky.social · 4h

sell both sides weapons
pad the family coffers
job as old as time
#scifaikusaturday

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Eric Lahti @ericlahti.bsky.social · 4h

snuck in our networks
invaded social spaces
won the war with lies
#scifaikusaturday

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 4h

War season pollen.
Not transgression; it just flows
across space, they say.

#scifaikusaturday #inkmine #haiku

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Hinse Mutter @hinsemutter.bsky.social · 8h

cavern neutrinos
dance skyward through rock and flesh
drones swoop with joy above

#ScifaikuSaturday
#haiku #scifaiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 16h

“These humans want war.
Wars of ideology?
There ARE no winners … “

#ScifaikuSaturday
#war
#haiku

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 17h

𝖭𝖾𝗉𝗍𝗎𝗇𝖾'𝗌 𝖶𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖶𝖺𝗋𝗌ᵀᴹ
𝗂𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾'𝗌 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖾𝗇𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖿𝖾 𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾
𝗐𝖾'𝗅𝗅 𝗈𝗎𝗍𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍, 𝗍𝗈𝗈

#ScifaikuSaturday | #war
#scifi #haiku

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 19h

gleitzeit
arbeitsschuhe abgestreift
am flughörnchengehege

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#inkmine #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#scifaikusaturday #senryusunday
#vssdaily #leather #vssmagic #attire
#BSPP42 #blueskyrelay #respite
#dailyhaikuprompt #vivid
#vss365 #verve

published in haiku-heute
october 2025

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 19h

flexitime
job attire torn off
at the flying squirrel fence

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#2wordprompt #scifaikusaturday
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#inkmine #tempt #work
#vssdaily #shoe #vssmagic #attire
#BSPP42 #blueskyrelay #respite
#dailyhaikuprompt #vivid
#vss365 #verve

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Joe F @joe--f.bsky.social · 20h

Arcade war breakout
Between green Space Invaders
And Galaxian

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday war

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

The 11 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#WAR

✍️ 👽 🛸 👍

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

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

In memoriam… #EdgarAllanPoe

died 176 years ago on this day.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

>> BREAKING GOOD NEWS <<

Rush is going back on tour!

#RUSH

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#Fantaiku on Bsky @fantaiku.bsky.social · 6d

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #Prompt for 05 October 2025 is:

#HAINT

…a spirit or ghost, particularly an evil or restless one.

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Fantasy
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingPrompts

🎨 Non-AI-tagged image: Pixabay | BlackDog1966

#Fantaiku banner. An image of a dragon’s clawed palm raising up a sitting man. They are outside of a castle, in a forest, and having a deep conversation. Non-AI-tagged image credit: BlackDog1966 on Pixabay.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 6d

👍

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 6d

I adore what Bluesky’s poets create with my one-word prompts.

Sometimes, I’m gobsmacked and I’m not even British. 😏😳

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 6d

❤️👏🏼👏🏼

A full, rhyming haiku sequence with multiple incorporating multiple prompts.

Well done, Quinn. Well done.

I’m jealous, but delighted.

✍️ on!

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 6d

Wow!! 👏🏼👏🏼❤️

A disaster story in haiku form with an image portraying the crew’s impending doom.

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 6d

𝗐𝖺𝗍𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗆𝖾𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗆𝗌
𝗐𝖾𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝖺𝗇 𝗂𝖼𝗒 𝖺𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗍𝗂𝖼
- 𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉'𝗌 𝖼𝗎𝗉𝗉𝗈𝗅𝖺𝗌 ƈ ɼ ả ƈ ƙ

➶-͙˚ ༘✶·˚‿̩̥̩‿̩̩̥͙̽‿̩͙ˊ⸊ˎ·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳

#ScifaikuSaturday | #storm
#scifi #haiku
#haikuchallenge | #aesthetic

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Quinn Qincaid @qincaid.bsky.social · 6d

Enough! Heaven strikes.
False spring sky starts to slacken,
destroying the dome.

Storm wind heaves, and hikes
golden brown bits of bracken -
breaking the biome.

Smite, with ice shard spikes!
Frozen fate! Cold skies blacken.
We mourn our lost home.

#OurPoetryX #ScifaikuSaturday #scifi

A domed futuristic science fiction city on an alien world is struck by a massive planetary storm that breaks the sky dome inward, letting in a massive black storm.

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 6d

solar storms
some secrets of the universe
still hidden

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

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Drew, Allegedly @thescribblings.com · 6d

Saturday, October 4th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts 2/2

#LuaViEr~1094 #Acrostic Grace
#MPPrompt Theme = Fetch me a long faded memory.
#OurPoetryX Bits of Bracken
#SciFaikuSaturday Storm
#SpicyPoetrySaturday ⬇️

Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 8d

#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#micropoetry
#blueskywriters
#writingcommunity

Use hashtag
#spicypoetrysaturday

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 7d

👏🏼👏🏼

That is a storm I don’t want to see in person, but maybe from orbit. 😳

To wit, a Gemini/2.5 Flash image generated by a single prompt based on your #ScifaikuSaturday poem. 😱

(Image: No copyright implied or explicitly stated. For illustrative purposes only.)

A Gemini/2.5 Flash generated, photorealistic image of an old man staring up into the Earth’s sky at the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, as a debris-filled storm rages around the old man. No copyright implied or explicitly stated. For illustrative purposes only.

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