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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 · 11d

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

🍊 🐉

#KazThoughts #MicroPoem #CreativeWriting #DragonLogic

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 4h

My contribution to #poemsabout #imperfectme
It's a piece that I've been meaning to write for a few weeks but never got round to it, so thank you
@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
For the push.

This is

Cracks In the Mirror

#poetry #blueskypoet #poem #mirror #identity #lost

It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room,
A face familiar, but still unrecognizable.
Silvered glass, which was not cracked last time I looked upon it
Now shattered into fragments, in each one an impostor.

A thousand faces trapped within; not one is whom I seek,
It stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
And I stare back, wondering who this man before me is
The man with cracks that crawl across his myriad of masks.

I know him not; I never have, but somehow he knows me
His crooked smiles, and weary eyes drill deep into my soul
He stares at me, from the other side of an empty room
From in between the cracks; a man I thought I used to know.

Once upon a time I saw my own face in the mirror
A bright and beaming smile; that was who I'd always be,
But somehow I cant see him in the faces of the beast
That stares at me, from the other side of this still empty room.

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 6h

I must go down to the seas again
to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by

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Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 19h

#vss365

A #libertine
From the start
I guess
I asked too many
Questions
How do we know?
Why do we believe that?
Who decided that was true?
Where does it say that?
Why...
are you
mad
at me?

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 2d

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 14h

The bandits wait close,
The filters are worth life and breath,
Guns fire in the fog.

🌫️ 😷

#HaikuFeels #DailyPrompt #Haze #PoetrySky #ThreeLines #Dystopian #DeadFuture #ArmoredRun #PreciousCargo #RoadWarriors #Scarcity #FilterWars #CourierLife

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 15h

Truth waits for no one,
The brief rest ends; hunting starts,
Duty calls him back.

⌛ 👮

#BlueSkyRelay #Respite #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #AllWorkNoPlay #NoRestForTheWicked #DutyCalls

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 19h

you are kidding yourself if you carry a flickering lantern along the winding path through the dark woods and think that the approaching thunderous hoofbeats signal the arrival of anyone other than the inimitable headless horseman

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5d

Death from above. Photo from my collection, 1959.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby cat looking down at the photographer from the roof of a wooden structure in the woods.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost ponces and phantom mongers would call it ‘psychic residue’. Me Nokes, I am a practical man. I call it collywobble echoes or if I am feeling little poetic, a place remembering. – #DICallaghan in conversation with #DSNokes

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

for a henchman, there’s nothing better after a long day of guarding a small chest than standing with your back to a field of waving grass just tall enough to hide a crouching human being

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

The heavy floral scent,
Blends with rain and cold copper,
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 is where he thrives.

🪻 🗡️

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Hyacinth #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkHaiku #InspiredBy #Webtoon #PurpleHyacinth #Ephemerys #Sophism #AntiHero #Regret #PhantomScythe #KieranWhite

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

He weds the black Night,
From their dark union, Daybreak,
The father of Dawn.

🌑🌅

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober5 #DailyPrompt #Erebos #ThreeLines #Katabasis #FinalJourney #Underworld #Classics #PrimordialGods #DarknessAndLight #NyxAndErebos #GreekMythology #MythsAndLegends

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis

1. Hypnos
2. Thanatos
3. Graeae
4. Shroud
5. Hermes Psychopompos
6. Moirai
7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress
8. Erebos
9. Lampades
10. Hekate
11. Torch
12. Styx
13. Empousa
14. Cocytus
15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters
16. Typhon
17. Echidna
18. Kharon
19. Shade
20. Acheron
21. Kerberos
22. Judge
23. Lamia
24. Phlegethon
25. Tartarus
26. Punishment
27. Erinyes
28. Phobos & Deimos
29. Mysteries
30. Lethe
31. Elysian Fields

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected blow,
The old plate, worn, buckles fast,
Skin, beneath, tearing.

⚔️ 🩸

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #KnightFall #ArmorFails #Visceral #BattleWound #CheapShot #DirtyFighting #UnderHandedBlow #DogTactics

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 1d

A plethora of #prompts from today: #bark, #pea, #ash, #candid, and #sonder.

Funny how they found their own rhythm in a city that hardly looks up.

#writing
#vss365
#microlit
#vssdaily
#emoetry
#blueskyrelay
#creativewriting
#wildwalkprompt

"Almost Seen" ~ story written and copyright (c) 2025 by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t.bsky.social). All Rights Reserved.

He blends into the city the way ash disappears into wind. People rush by, screens in hand, their minds fixed on scrolling without consciousness. A street vendor’s bark cuts through the crowd as he shouts, “No Pea Soup For You!” to no one in particular.

He sits on a bench, phone silent, thumb hovering over a list of names that used to mean something. Across the street, two strangers share a laugh, sudden and candid. The sound startles him.

For a moment, he imagines what it might feel like to belong in their world. The thought comes and goes, small as breath, leaving only the quiet knowledge that everyone else carries a life just as unreachable as his.

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

Their eyes, meeting mine,
A torrent of life pours in
... And then they depart.

🤯 🚶

#BlueSkyRelay #Sonder #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #WorldView #InnerWorld #SecretLives #EphemeralConnection #HumanCondition #PeopleWatching #Neologism #NarrativeTheory

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 1d

‘Unlike a brain surgeon, the beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time.’
— Robert Cormier
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

That touch, #feather light,
Tickling, driving them insane,
'Please...' he begs, '...no...? More...

🪶 😵‍💫

#HorrorPrompt #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkHaiku #SensoryHorror #PsychologicalHorror #PsychologicalTorment #Sensory #PleasurePain #PainParadox #Endurance #Torment

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 2d

An aging #relic
I cough, splutter, curse the sky
each ache magnifies

#haikufeels #haiku

I have a cold and feeling sorry for myself!!

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of a dragon reading a book with the words " me buying another book " above it

Alt: a cartoon of a dragon reading a book with the words " me buying another book " above it, and a TBR pile falling down

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you ✨🧡🙏

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

The mat, she'll circle,
A slow #curl, with limbs arranged
Always time to snooze.

🐈 💤

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #ThreeLines #MicroPoem #CuddleOfCats #CatCollective #AlwaysTimeForANap #FelineForm #CatPoem #PetPoem #猫 #ねこ

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

The violin sings,
A song of #ineffable truth,
It needs no language.

🎻 🖤

#BlueSkyRelay #DailyPrompt #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #InspiredBy #ThisSavageSong #VESchwab #Sunai #AugustFlynn #MonstersOfVerity #MusicMagic #DarkFantasy #SoulSong

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 2d

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

King Richard II knighting Henry of Monmouth. Harley 1319, f.5

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 2d

I watch you
light yourself on fire.

You don’t know how else
to react
when your illusions
are shattered.

You reanimate,
then burn.
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

You tell me
I’m the one
who failed to live up to
our shared ideals.

I wonder why
you’re wasting
time and resources.

#Poetry #Poem #Skypoet

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GoRhyme @gorhyme.bsky.social · 7d

And the lines,
They blur,
Between ape and man,
Sisters kindred under the skin.

God Bless you Jane Goodall.

You showed us what it was like to be truly human.
—GoRhyme

A big part of many of our childhoods

Just a generated picture there’s no way I could paint a likeness so quickly.

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