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INK_John

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Stories in ink. Salt in my hair. Writer | Author | Surfer | Trail Runner WFPB 🌱 Cooking | Pickleball Equality always. Stories forever.

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · May 21

He sings to the stars,
hoping one will fall for him,
the sky is unmoved.

#DailyHaikuPrompt

The moon glows behind tall, bare trees at twilight. Its light veiled by soft clouds, casting a dreamy halo in a deepening blue sky.

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks, Trè!! 😀 They’re cool because you can do one or more sentences and if you see one that inspires an idea you can drop it in a comment and get a thread going!

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 6h

Beautifully written. Both raw and shimmering. Love the duality of it. You’d get on well with Jess lol

INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 8h

Ernest Shackleton was a polar explorer in the early 20th century. His Endurance expedition is considered to be one of the most extraordinary in maritime history. I read a bunch of his books.

Yeah, that’s the song I was thinking of until my brain flicked to Shackleton 😂

The Endurance ship at night Stuck in pack ice.

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Jen J.C. @jennnne.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, pretty

📷 : Me

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 1d

the complete oeuvre
from cave art to AI art
of humanity
has inspired many but
didn't stop one single war

#blueskyrelay #oeuvre #tanka

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks! It was one of those introvert moments where I wandered away from the group and it serendipitously led to a favorite moment caught in a photo.

INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 10h

Great song 😀 When you wrote white flag I thought of Shackleton’s quote “never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavor”

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 1d

𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒
𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟
ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔

#mentalhealth
#worldmentalhealthday
#kindnessisfree
#haiku #senryu
🕊️🦋💜🌏🌈🙌

🎭 m i k e ✨ @po3try.bsky.social · 1d

today is #worldmentalhealthday

let's let ourselves talk about our #mentalhealth

#itsokaytonotbeokay

we are all worthwhile

i love you

<3

a cartoon of two teddy bears hugging each other

Alt: a cartoon of two teddy bears hugging each other

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Whispered winds bear sorrow.

Shadows hum the lost one’s name.

Twilight weeps in soft tones.

Nightfall drapes the world in grief.

Moonlight sings a mournful hymn.

#7SyllableSentence
#dirge

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 1d

Humanity plays its dirge.

#7syllablesentence #dirge

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Dripping With Words | Intuitive Writer @drippingwithwords.bsky.social · 1d

..a sublime-tangerine-autumn-sky.. mother nature can be groovy like that..

©️📸 WIP-dww

#thoughts #quotes #photography #zen #sunset #light #spirituality #writesky #nature #landscape #sky #art #autumn #forestfriday #philosophy #life #sunrise #scape #bluesky #clouds #trees

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虹ピアノ・Niji Piano @pianoniji.bsky.social · Feb 3

音楽こそが、私の人生です
演奏能力を最大限に発揮できたことに、安堵感、幸福感、感謝の気持ちでいっぱい

Music is my life
That wonderful feeling, knowing you performed your best: relief, elation, gratitude.

#マッシュルFA #マーガレット・マカロン生誕祭2025 #マーガレット・マカロン #MASHLE #MargaretteMacaron #イラスト #drawing

「満場の喝采」マーガレット・マカロン　ペン画（製作者：虹ピアノ @PianoNiji)
“Ovation” Pen drawing of Margarette Macaron by Niji Piano @PianoNiji

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Phylosoma™ @phylosoma.bsky.social · 1d

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Whitt Photography @mwhitt.substack.com · 2d

Red Shouldered Hawk.
#Photography
linktr.ee/mwhitt

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 2d

aerial slipstream
alive with geese sounding off—
digital detox

#haiku #poem #nature #birds

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 2d

Loved it! Always welcome. Especially spooky ones 😀
Feel free to any time the spirits move you

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 2d

What burned forgets itself in slow ascent

#OneLineOctober 🎃
#HaikuFeels #prompt #haze
#photography

A group gathers around a fire at the beach. The sky at the horizon fades upward into dark. Sea oats glow in warm light. Smoke ascends.

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 2d

Chilling! 👏

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 5d

just shadows long in
our fleeting existences,
enjoying the sun

#haiku #life #nature
#abouttheauthor

I snapped this photo of me & my shadow with my walking stick. Earlier, I was reading about Oedipus meeting the Sphinx at the crossroads & correctly answering the riddle of, "what walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?" That led to this haiku.

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Charles Karden @stuck.bsky.social · Apr 24

WE MUST SCRUPULOUSLY GUARD THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OF ALL CITIZENS, WHATEVER THEIR BACKGROUND.
WE MUST REMEMBER THAT ANY OPPRESSION, ANY INJUSTICE, ANY HATRED, IS A WEDGE DESIGNED TO ATTACK OUR CIVILIZATION

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Jeffrey Bone @nocureforchronic.bsky.social · 3d

If we remember the ash
We’ill be kinder to the flesh

#ash #vss365

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Ms. AWashington M.A. artist | poet | writer @arwashington.bsky.social · 5d

A #Solseed Joint
“A prompt, a pulse
—a purposeful
soul to water a seed.

medium.com/@Ms.AWashing...

ACADEMIC PAPER
Ms. AWashington
#ARW-RAW | #AskAngge @arwashington.bsky.social
Image: Stock
Art Rendition: ARW-RAW

Performative Allyship Won’t Help Marginalized Peoples’ Activism: A Critical Analysis

Ms. AWashington | ARW-RAW

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Gabe Valentine ~semi-hiatus~🐬🌊🏝️🧜🐳 @poetguygabe.bsky.social · 4d

Humanity loves a good story
so it's telling eight billion tales
of suffering and bliss
of hope and hopelessness.

Our stories
have common themes
of values and ideals
clashing with ineptitude.

We see ourselves
as poets and lovers
while we keep
tolerating war.

#vss365 #clash

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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · 4d

She saw the pain yet smiled on.
Hope sharpened by what she knew.
Her joy was forged, not borrowed.
Bright eyes, but never blind ones.
She met despair with choosing.
Gratitude as quiet armor.
Courage wore the face of cheer.
Light, not from ease, but defiance.

#7SyllableSentence #blithe

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