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A weekly #Fantasy #Haiku #Poetry forum 🧚‍♀️ from #Prompt master @ayisi_yaw on X & hosted here by yours truly.

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From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #prompt starting 8 February 2026 is:

#FORAGE

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

🎨 creativeralph | pixabay
#Fantaiku banner. An image of a young man standing face to face with a giant lizard. Their chance meeting in a magical land is just the beginning of an amazing adventure. AI-tagged image credit: creativeralph on Pixabay.
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#MOFA

Orwellian world
The Party’s “final command”
No longer sci-fi

New command to all:
“Make Orwell Fiction Again”
Our future begs us!

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#ScifaikuSaturday #command

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The official U.S. government image of Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary as of this posting. Overlaying her image is this text: MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN #MOFA "She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her." —George Orwell, "1984" @AlanVMichaels.bsky.social Public domain image
February 14, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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alanvmichaels.bsky.social
As a long-time “Wired Al” Yankovic devotee, imagine my disappointment when I learned “Al” was short for “Alfred.”

No worries. I love his music.

You received a C&D from WDC?

I ask, because my lawyer said there’s still a 1st Amendment right to satire, comment, & parody.

To wit…

#VSS365 #lacuna
A grayscale image of two concentric circles created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka to demonstrate your mind does not perceive reality correctly. This haiku asks, “What important real-realities are you not perceiving, because of your human brain?” Overlaying the center of the image is the haiku: What do you perceive? It’s “Lacuna Matata” Your brain deceives you And this upside text: @ALANVMICHAELS.BSKY.SOCIAL HAIKU ©2026 ALAN VINCENT MICHAELS ART BY AKIYOSHI KITAOKA
February 14, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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fizzytwizler.bsky.social
I had weaved myself into a whelve
Somewhere even the sun
Couldn’t delve

A deep deep well
Close to hell

Loneliness
Wrapped around me
Like a serpents hiss

Almost dragged you in
You pulled me out
Now we live alive-skin to skin

#satsplat #poetry
February 14, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social
#Fantaiku #366FF 
A Dungeon's Fetters
With skeletons still confined
Eliciting Fear
Chelms Varthoumlien unsplash.com
A skull among other bones
February 10, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social
#InkMine #Fantaiku 
The Mighty Beast roars
Warning to avoid domain
Only fools ignore
raythslayer pixabay.com
A sea serpent
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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candispillard.bsky.social
"Please would you #refrain
from stirring the #lacuna."
Oops! I did. Too late...

#haikuchallenge #haiku #3lines
#vss365 #scifi #fantaiku
#scifaiku
a black hole in the center of a galaxy
Alt: a black hole in the centre of a galaxy
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
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Refrain from shifting
Through space lacunae just to
Forage for more time
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#SciFiFri shift #vss365 lacuna #haikuchallenge refrain #Fantaiku forage #amwriting #fantasy #haiku #scifaiku #poem #poetry #WritingCommunity #scifi #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #poem #MicroPoem #SFF #Poets #BlueSkyPoet 🙏♻
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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alanvmichaels.bsky.social
The #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt for 14 February 2026 is 🫵🏼 🗣️ 🫡 🖖 #COMMAND

✍️ 👽 🛸 👍

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

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On a black and star field background, a non-AI tagged Pixabay image of an android is shown. The android seems to be contemplating the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag. A blue, rectangle outline highlights the image and hashtag.
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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alanvmichaels.bsky.social
Of course, we forage
You won’t let us in Costco
Where else can we go? …

©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels

#Fantaiku #forage

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

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A “Bigfoot” image from an unknown Michigan Reddit poster (no © claimed). The creature is hiding near a tree trunk in the dark-green foliage, and the creature seems to be studying the camera that caught its image. Overlaying the image is the poem text: Of course, we forage You won’t let us in Costco Where else can we go? Whole Foods? Trader Joe’s? Oh, you rash, thoughtless humans! We can’t join your world We must go by night Forage in ages-old ways You were once like us One day’s bright sunrise When we forage for our lives You’ll be found no more We take what we need We’re your true antithesis Earth’s our forage grounds ©2026 Alan Vincent Michaels
February 10, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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Sunday, February 8th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts 1/2

#BastardPoetsOfDoom ⬇️ Grumpy
#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP50 Quaver
#DailyHaikuPrompt Flurry / Milky Way
#Emoetry Blissful
#Fantaiku Forage
#FreeVerseFebruary Piecemeal
phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social Steve Silas Hendrickson @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social · 5d
Since it's officially Sunday, I will now present the prompt and form for the #BastardPoetsOfDoom

Your prompt today is #grumpy. Your task is to write three of these in English of the same subject in one page. Have fun, and don't overthink it!

#poetrycommunity #tigsik #rawitdawit #Bicol
Steve's Poetry Challenge: Tigsik For this prompt, I will introduce you all to a Bicolano poetry form (rawitdawit) locally called the Tigsik (prounounced teeg-sic). In English, tigsik means "I commend" , "I salute", "I point out", or in modern internet speak, "shout-out." It is a short poetry form consisting of one stanza, similar to a haiku, but there are four lines with roughly eight syllables each, but this can be flexible (as long as it's not too long). Each line should rhyme, whether with an end rhyme, an assonance, or an internal rhyme. The tone of a tigsik is usually a roast, a salute, a commendation, or a (friendly) joke about a person. The goal is to be as humorous or lamentful as possible while (lightly) roasting the subject; a jest if you will. For example: English: Salute to my dear father, Whose emotions are way farther... The only time he gets nearer Is to ask for some bail offer. Bicol: (Tigsik ko ang ama ko Ang pagkamoot abang rayo, Naiisip niya man lang ako Pangpyansa niya ta ako nagpaldo.) Or: English: Shoutout to my dissociation. It weakens my emotions— The joy I find in medication, Outlasts their attenuation. Bicol: (Tigsik ko an sakong pagkahuri, Ta pirmi akong mayo sa sadiri— Bulong nawawara an ogma sa sadiri Pag sinda na naghahali.) Or: English: I commend Mitsuo-san, The best cook in Naga, Even though he's quieter than a pan And sourly than his fans. Bicol: (Tigsik ko si Mitsuo-san, Pinakamaurag na paraluto sa Naga Mas tuninong sa kawali, saka Buwisit sa panatiko niya)
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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haikufest.bsky.social
woke
up
in a
red, white, and
blue dungeon filled with
sleepwalking protesters on ice

#Fibonacci #poetry
#fantaiku dungeon
January 29, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
'

Touch my wings and I'll
Throw you down in the dungeon —
If Hell just had one!

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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Haiku #fantasy
#poetrylovers #poem #Fantaiku #MicroPoem #Poets #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #SFF #HaikuCommunity #poet #BlueSkyPoet
January 29, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
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Book passage from fears
On migrant flights - worlds afar
Welcome newcomers

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#Fantaiku FEAR #haikuchallenge 2/6 passage #SciFiFri Flight #scifi #haiku #fantasy #poem #poetrycommunity #scifi #poetrylovers #BlueSkyPoet #WritingCommunity #fantasy
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
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Fear is liminal
Between fight and flight
Can wound us both ways

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#vss365 wound #Fantaiku fear #SciFiFri flight
#WritingCommunity #Haiku #poem #poetry #BlueSkyPoet
February 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
'

walk with me a while
thru feared uncanny valleys
of the multiverse

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#fantaiku #fantasy #scifi #horror #haiku #BlueSkyPoet
February 4, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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#scifaikusaturday

I #glitch on and off
Light dance and flash manically
So do our patients

#writingcommunity
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social
kinderzehen
sie pflücken fast blumen
vom bildschirmboden

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#vssmagic #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#kidlit #poetryforkids #kidspoetry
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#dailyhaikuprompt #bravewrite
#thingstowriteabout #flowers
#haikuchallenge #quamoclit
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social
the toddler's toes
trying to pick flowers
from the digital floor

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#bspp50 #flux #scifaikusaturday
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#dailyhaikuprompt #2wordprompt
#thingstowriteabout #flowers
#haikuchallenge #quamoclit
#bravewrite #inkmine
February 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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parkini.bsky.social
#Scifaikusaturday

Space station orbits
Supply ship starboard nacelle
A new disc shaped glitch
February 7, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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thesurrealari.bsky.social
Glitch-ch-ch-ch-ch
Re-SIM-a-U-lit-LA-y-TION
Glitch-ch-ch-ch-ch

#ScifaikuSaturday
February 7, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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hegelincanada.bsky.social
solar flare
a serendipitous glitch
late night aurora

#SciFaikuSaturday (glitch) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Saturday, February 7th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts 2/2

#HaikuFeels Ideal
#HaikuHorrorPrompt Sawed
#MPPrompt ⬇️
#OurPoetryX Rebuild
#SciFaikuSaturday Glitch
#ThreeWordGenre Listening
malformed-poetry.bsky.social Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social · 6d
Today’s #poetryprompt:

It’s mother’s day in Norway. So write me a poem about your mother BUT….. it can’t be about your mom.

#MPPrompt
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February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
terraforming glitch
each night this undead planet
whispers in darkness

crazed hiss like secrets
our desires, greed and hubris
bloodiest curses

we rise as ghosts
can't believe in ourselves
or this next world

#ScifaikuSaturday (glitch)
#inkMine (craze)
#vss365 (bloody)
February 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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qincaid.bsky.social
Your motives weren't pure.
You played God, but you were blind.
Now blood taints snow white.

You promised a cure.
What?! A glitch... You've lost your mind!
Of course they would bite.

What must they endure?
Capture them? Keep them confined?
How can this be right?

#scifi #ScifaikuSaturday #Poetry
A rabid genetic experiment confined within a science fiction containment pen.
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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glhancock.bsky.social
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Now the nightbirds fly
Glitches seldom seen in the
Fabric of our sky

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#ScifaikuSaturday #scifi #haiku #poem #poetry
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February 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM