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Eve Castle

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I write poems & short stories. Published. Retired to Colorado ‘24. TX escapee. #Resist I’m writing/submitting. Also on Medium now. Be kind, especially to yourself #SafeSpace Host #TankaThursday #TankaPoem prompt since Jun‘19 #poetry #haiku #tanka

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 9, 2025

this week’s prompt:

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write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America

Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 3h

Someone shared this video with me and it’s important enough to share here. The unmasked ICE agent tries to explain that Illinois is “no longer handing the criminals off to them” so that’s why they are taking others. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Quotas anyone?

None of this normal. #Resist

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Mrs. Butters 🥧 on X: "None of this is normal https://t.co/oeMuvKZbTO" / X

None of this is normal https://t.co/oeMuvKZbTO

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 1d

#haiku
waiting for
you at the table
the fly

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GChellie @gchellie.bsky.social · 16h

My beloved is in Chicago right now on business and showed me with his cell phone, the protesters organizing outside his Hotel room window. If you think seeing it on the news freaks you out, seeing it on your husband’s cell phone is 100 times worse!! Praying for peace and persistent protesting. WIN!

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Angela Rachael @artinwords.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a new prompt month! The #firewords280 theme for October is Stark Raving Madness.

Feel free to use the pairing as a phrase OR separately!

Include the hashtag for RP consideration. No AI or QP. Thanks in advance.

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

𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑡
𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦
𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠
𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑚𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ

#HumansOfBluesky #UrbanGaze
#mobilephotography #photography
#TankaThursday | #message
#tanka

A painter has 'set up shop' just outside the old Customs building near the ferries. He's in the middle of painting the newly-improved Queen Street mall in Auckland CBD. It's an overcast day, so the painting's colours and tones are soft, muted, grey.

A printed sign in a window on a side street down to the ferry says:

"Be Ruthless to Systems
(with an cartoony illustration of a rodent wearing a flower tucked in one ear) then below that
But Kind to People"

The inside window is covered with old newspaper, blocking out any views from the street.

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 16h

each poem
a beacon flashing
a message
into the darkness
of the world’s long night

By M. Kei

#tanka #5lines #tankapoem #poetry

#TankaThursday message

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 16h

I know this is tough on you Gabe. Thanks for responding. Everyone feels so helpless.

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 17h

i quickly dash off
an email to a friend
tonight
the welcome arrival of
the first cold chill

#tanka

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Nya 🧿 🇨🇦 @artbyseranya.bsky.social · 1d

Throes of sonder, I see us!
#Seranya #Writing 🦄

#7SyllableSentence #BlueskyRelay

Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

In the throes of mad chaos.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for October 8 is #throes

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 23h

As we hear about National Guard deployments in various cities I think it’s wise to recall the Kent State University massacre of May 4,1970. 4 dead & 9 injured.

Students’ rally against the Vietnam war’s escalation into Cambodia, the presence of the National Guard on campus and the military draft.

The date is May 4, 1970 - this picture is the iconic black and white photo of Mary Ann Vecchio screaming in grief over a dead body of a college student (Jeffrey Miller) killed by the National Guard. Nixon was president.

The date is May 4, 1970 - this picture is a black and white photograph of the Kent State University campus showing the advancing National Guard using tear gas on demonstrators.

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the most banned books of 2025.: As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectionable” titles may surprise you. If we consider censored… #BookNews #Events

Here are the most banned books of 2025.

As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectionable” titles may surprise you. If we consider censored books by theme, critique of an

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Laura Borealis ❌👑 @laura-gordon.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEATHER COX RICHARDSON! America needs you like we need oxygen @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Kiki Dombrowski @kikid333.bsky.social · Sep 7

“No Mud” - mixed media (assorted lokta and pigmented papers with acrylic and watercolor paints) #bluelotus #art #mixedmedia

Mixed media artwork with blue lotuses and leaves rising from darker water. The central most bloomed lotus looks like a rising sun.

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Kiki Dombrowski @kikid333.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking a social media fast to deeply request the creation of a Vampire Diaries tarot deck.
#tarot #vampirediaries #teamdamon #cwgothaesthetic

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone else been to the Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain? I found it a bit of a mixed bag, but here are some of my favourites pieces.

Ithell Colquhoun (Self-portrait)
Undated
Ink and wash on paper
These self-portraits were begun using decalcomania, a surrealist technique Colquoun used extensively from the late 1930s. The process involves applying ink or paint to a surface, then pressing another surface against it, creating mirror images. Colquhoun worked up one sheet, delineating facial features while leaving the other side undeveloped.
National Portrait Gallery, London. Given by the National Trust (Cornwall Regional Office) 1999

Water-Flower
1938
Oil paint on canvas
Exhibited at The Mayor Gallery, 1939
This sensual flower takes on bodily qualities, with fleshy petals and buds.
The composition shows Colquhoun's interest in boundaries, here between the flower above the surface of the water and its roots below. In this period, the idea of an animated, spiritually infused world began to emerge in Colquhoun's practice.
Water-Flower was designed for the women's ward at Moreton-in-Marsh Hospital near Colquhoun's hometown of Cheltenham.
Arts University Plymouth

THE TARO
In 1977, Colquhoun produced designs for a set of tarot cards Tarot decks date back to mid-fifteenth century Europe and are typically used for fortune telling and playing certain games. They usually include 78 pictorial cards divided into the Major Arcana (trump cards) and Minor Arcana (four suits).
Some occultists mistakenly thought that the tarot emerged from ancient Egypt. Colquhoun rejected the common spelling, believing 'Taro' was a truer reflection of these supposed origins.
Colquhoun's deck is unique, featuring no pictured figures or symbols. Instead, the artist used dripped enamel paint to create abstract compositions. Rather than providing direct instruction, Colquhoun designed her deck as a meditative tool and spiritual aid. Her cards combine the spontaneity of surrealist automatism with the Golden Dawn's interpretation of colour theories from Jewish mysticism.
The full deck was exhibited at the Newlyn Art Gallery in 1977.
In her 1978 essay 'Taro as Colour, Colquhoun recalled: "After I had completed the pack, I saw some slides showing nebulae in outer space and the birth of stars. These recalled my designs and confirmed my conviction of their cosmographic function:

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

@philippesands.bsky.social examines Pinochet’s Chile, the Nazis, and how democracy erodes into fascism.

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

It was October 17, 1998, a Saturday afternoon, when I heard the news on the radio, waiting for the football results. It was my thirty-eighth birthday. The former Chilean dictator, General Augusto P…

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Ms. Joyce Tarot @msjoycetarot.com · 1d

Feel the support and be supportive of the people in your life who are the closest to you

While this could include blood relatives, remember that your support system can be anyone who resonates with your soul — your “soul family”

Love and peace ❤️🦋

#tarot #tarotsky #occultsky

The Ten Of Pentacles From The Angel Tarot By Jayne Wallace
The Key Word Is Support

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Janet Nestor @janetnestor.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no deadline for becoming who you want to be.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 1d

Today I carried groceries from car to door for an elderly neighbor. And I’m going to treat myself to a falafel wrap for lunch.

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vss365hq.bsky.social @vss365hq.bsky.social · 8d

The #vss365 host for October 1-15 is:

@thedevilstuna.bsky.social (Paul)

Prompts will drop daily at 10 AM GMT (UTC)

Follow Paul, if you haven’t already!

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

ALT: a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

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Our Poetry @ourpoetryx.bsky.social · 1d

#OurPoetryX @OurPoetryX
Prompt for 8 October

-Midnight howls-
Nothing screams spooky like a lonesome howl in the dead of night… other than an answering call.

From the vault: Blindside

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

Melancholy days,
traveling, filled with longing—
if I could not hear
the lonely cry of the crane,
it would be too much for me to bear.

#tanka by Takayasu no Oshima
translated by: Sam Hamill
#micropoetry #poetry #5lines

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d

loneliness
seeping into the rock
cicada's voice

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1689
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry #poetry

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