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🧡💛🤍💚 A forgetful, random nerd and an oft' anxious but optimistic nihilist 🖋️ 3 Lines/Senryu/Haiku/Tanka 🖊️ Ekphrasis dabbler 📖 🍿 🎮 🎧 🇬🇧- Geeky- ND- INFP- Dyscalculic- Reader- Ailurophile- 🎮 ♠️ 📸📖🎥 Horror/Thriller/Fantasy/History/SciFi/Musicals/Anime ✨ 💀

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 12d

Battle is quick, flight is fast,
Wisdom settles slow and deep;
Age gives choice, not speed.

🍊 🐉

#KazThoughts #MicroPoem #CreativeWriting #DragonLogic

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Nomenclature @hillshrills.bsky.social · 6h

At any moment
A great moment
A Jovial moment
Something could happen,
Even if it hasn’t.

#vss365 #jovial

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 6h

Time, cannot be stopped,
Rolling, toward the unknown,
Always, pulling forward,
Iron, bound to the track,
Never looking back.

#Train #Acrostic #Poetry

Luana Giunta @luanagiunta.bsky.social · 8h

#LuaViEr Day 1102
Write a line (even one word) for each letter!
Bonus if you write something connected to the word.

Train: a connected line of railroad cars with or without a locomotive.
Prepare someone or yourself for a job.
⬇️
T
R
A
I
N

#poetry
#flashfiction
#prompt
#Acrostic

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Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social · 1d

🦝

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve exchanged
the wretched
for the #sublime,
the grimy
for divine,
the pain
for sunshine;

I’m bartering
what’s left
of my soul
for a chance,
one
last
chance
at a life well led

#blueskyrelay #poetry

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 7h

#SaturdayMotivation
#SaturdayThoughts
writingforwellbeing.co.uk

Reminder to everyone that 'your best doesn't mean pushing yourself to your breaking point. 'Your best' means the best you can do while being the best you. Get enough sleep, give yourself breaks, listen to your limits. 'Your best' is better when you're happy and healthy.

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井川奎(Ikawa kei) @ikawakei.bsky.social · 8h

Your trembling words
carry solace to my heart
autumn evening

#haikuchallenge
#haiku
#lovehaiku

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Train retreats into the distance
As the young man stands unsteady
Carpetbag at his feet, wrinkled suit
Hung unevenly on spare shoulders.
Whatever future he foresees
Must be better than the #past
He clearly is running from.
May we bless him with success
Or should we just hope for him?

#vss365

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MrYrjö @mryrjo.bsky.social · Sep 4

I swear this belt
Fit looser
Before the cheesecake
And ice cream.

#vssdaily

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 8h

His home now stands dark,
But Eagle Sight shows the warmth,
Their spirits remain,
Ghosts of joy that cannot fade,
Sunlight, bright, upon his loss.

🥺 🦅

#PoetrySky #MicroPoem #Tanka #InspiredBy #EzioAuditore #HomeComing #AC2 #GamingPoetry #CreativeWriting

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Fliddais @fliddais.bsky.social · 15h

A dream so vivid
The field, the blood, a shovel
The soil so heavy

#dailyhaikuprompt #vivid #field #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 8h

Yes I really liked it, and the whole idea. I like the 'Cells at Work' stuff too, there's similarities? 🦠 🔪

a cart with the number 02 on the side

Alt: a cart with O2 on the side, being pushed by a personification of 'Red Blood Cell'

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 10h

Osmosis Jones! That's a blast from the past, There was a TV show of it too iirc 🤔
Oof never realised these lyrics though 😬

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 1d

My contribution for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe, this is Flood..
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · Apr 28

Flood.. #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 12h

You want something more,
Gods below! Have I not bled
Enough for the crowd?
#PennedReveries #SomethingMore #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@dmiddleham.bsky.social

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 12h

The heron's beak was
A blur when it finally
Struck, art of hunting.
#WildWalkPrompt #beak #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@sonnetsmith.bsky.social

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Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 8d

Each shovelful
Brings me closer
The ache in my back eclipsed
By the ache in my heart
Forlorne in despair
I dig towards you, my bride
I must possess
Your lifeless heart
To hold it against mine
So I may live once more
I fill my heart
One shovelful
At a time

#ও☉❢☉✑
#poetry
#micropoetry

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February Grace @februarygrace.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn brings
haunted memories
a #cascade of emotions
too hard to hold
too strong to free;
deep as the ocean
rip currents pulling
my heart out to sea
wait for me, wait for me

#whistpr #cascade

#Whistpr Daily Word @whistprword.bsky.social · 1d

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

Tag your post: #whistpr

Word for October 10, 2025: #CASCADE

#WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Drawing of a large wisteria tree dripping with cascades of weeping branches covered in light purple blooms. There is a small white rabbit at the base of the tree and the background is a golden color to contrast with the purple.

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Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 12h

The beast
Glowing eyes aflame
It hunts with the
Pace of the wind
Scouring the undergrowth
Bright teeth snap and cackle
Sniffing, howling to
Westerling wind
To cauterize its
Hunger

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

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 20h

what passes through

we are not what remains
but what passes through

rain, light, sorrow-
each finds a way in and out

I used to think the self
was a vessel of permanence
now I see it’s a window
briefly catching the sun

#poetry

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Sparrow @grimmindarkness.bsky.social · 1d

Prompt # 1970: miasma

They'll investigating a quarantined village. Lost to history & long forgotten. Only known to those curious enough to find it. The locals of the area call it the village of fog. Not because of the toxic air, but because you can lose yourself.
#horrorprompt

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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 21h

#WorldMentalHealthDay

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Gravitas Free Zone @gravitasfreezone.bsky.social · 1d

abscission complete
oak’s skeletal remains
awaiting rebirth

#haikufeels #skeletal #haiku #poem #poetry

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 22h

Their dark promise made,
The black #Ledger holds the price of his soul,
He keeps his cruel #Pledge.

A sweet #Jasmine scent,
With cruel #Temptations he must deny,
His heart turns away.

His mind starts to #Tease,
He suffers the #Insomnia.
As truth grants no rest.

⛓️ 💔

#InkMine #PromptWords #Poem

a silhouette of a man walking down a dark street

Alt: a silhouette of a man walking down a dark street, getting backlit by a passing headlight beam

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Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social · 1d

#poemsabout #imperfectme

@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

All tomorrows

The room is finally quiet
The only reflection is mine
Another day closes
Another small victory for attrition
But the end is always...
Me.
I don't stare at my reflection
I don't need to know today
I am here
I am enough
Today that was enough
I could do more
I could be more
Someday I may
But today the room is quiet. Again.
Finally.
And the day closes
A flick of a switch and a clap of the notebook.
life pauses
Maybe tomorrow I try to be more than enough.
Maybe tomorrow I check my reflection.
Maybe tomorrow

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