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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

The 04 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#STORM

✍️ 👽 🛸 👍

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

A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the person’s view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

In memoriam… #EdgarAllanPoe

died 176 years ago on this day.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 2d

>> BREAKING GOOD NEWS <<

Rush is going back on tour!

#RUSH

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#Fantaiku on Bsky @fantaiku.bsky.social · 3d

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #Prompt for 05 October 2025 is:

#HAINT

…a spirit or ghost, particularly an evil or restless one.

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

🎨 Non-AI-tagged image: Pixabay | BlackDog1966

#Fantaiku banner. An image of a dragon’s clawed palm raising up a sitting man. They are outside of a castle, in a forest, and having a deep conversation. Non-AI-tagged image credit: BlackDog1966 on Pixabay.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

I adore what Bluesky’s poets create with my one-word prompts.

Sometimes, I’m gobsmacked and I’m not even British. 😏😳

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

❤️👏🏼👏🏼

A full, rhyming haiku sequence with multiple incorporating multiple prompts.

Well done, Quinn. Well done.

I’m jealous, but delighted.

✍️ on!

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

Wow!! 👏🏼👏🏼❤️

A disaster story in haiku form with an image portraying the crew’s impending doom.

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 4d

𝗐𝖺𝗍𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗆𝖾𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗆𝗌
𝗐𝖾𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝖺𝗇 𝗂𝖼𝗒 𝖺𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗍𝗂𝖼
- 𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉'𝗌 𝖼𝗎𝗉𝗉𝗈𝗅𝖺𝗌 ƈ ɼ ả ƈ ƙ

➶-͙˚ ༘✶·˚‿̩̥̩‿̩̩̥͙̽‿̩͙ˊ⸊ˎ·˚ ༘₊· ͟͟͞͞꒰➳

#ScifaikuSaturday | #storm
#scifi #haiku
#haikuchallenge | #aesthetic

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Quinn Qincaid @qincaid.bsky.social · 4d

Enough! Heaven strikes.
False spring sky starts to slacken,
destroying the dome.

Storm wind heaves, and hikes
golden brown bits of bracken -
breaking the biome.

Smite, with ice shard spikes!
Frozen fate! Cold skies blacken.
We mourn our lost home.

#OurPoetryX #ScifaikuSaturday #scifi

A domed futuristic science fiction city on an alien world is struck by a massive planetary storm that breaks the sky dome inward, letting in a massive black storm.

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 4d

solar storms
some secrets of the universe
still hidden

#SciFaikuSaturday (storm) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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Drew, Allegedly @thescribblings.com · 4d

Saturday, October 4th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts 2/2

#LuaViEr~1094 #Acrostic Grace
#MPPrompt Theme = Fetch me a long faded memory.
#OurPoetryX Bits of Bracken
#SciFaikuSaturday Storm
#SpicyPoetrySaturday ⬇️

Whistlertimbc @whistlertimbc.bsky.social · 5d

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

Use hashtag
#spicypoetrysaturday

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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That is a storm I don’t want to see in person, but maybe from orbit. 😳

To wit, a Gemini/2.5 Flash image generated by a single prompt based on your #ScifaikuSaturday poem. 😱

(Image: No copyright implied or explicitly stated. For illustrative purposes only.)

A Gemini/2.5 Flash generated, photorealistic image of an old man staring up into the Earth’s sky at the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, as a debris-filled storm rages around the old man. No copyright implied or explicitly stated. For illustrative purposes only.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

Now THAT’S speculative fiction! 👏🏼👏🏼

I’ve always wondered why I see snail trails on my driveway, but never any snails at the end points

Let’s stop looking for wormholes and look for snailtrails instead. 👍

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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I hope you kept the sail’s receipt. 😏😳

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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Are you saying that EM has plans for Earth after getting to Mars?

😳🤦🏼‍♂️

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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What fantasy world to live on…

😳😱

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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☄️☄️☄️

The flotilla needs deflector shields.

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! ❤️👏🏼👏🏼

I often feel NHI entities are testing us with all manners of everyday and doomsday scenarios to see how we react.

Once we pass, they’ll let us into the club!

If we don’t pass?

Did someone say, “Deluge and start again.”? 😳☄️🌊😱

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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This so sounded like an SF/horror movie I had seen, but it turned out “The Swarm” was just a human-engineered locust plague. 🙄

So, you have the start of a movie script or a novel here, Dickson’s “Hour of the Horde” notwithstanding.

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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Good reminder!

It’s terrifying and ironic how quickly our “modern” civilization could be sent into a new “Bronze / Iron Age” by a massive solar flare or EMP. 😱⚒️

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Hinse Mutter @hinsemutter.bsky.social · 4d

we uplifted snails
they birthed bizarre new physics
written in slime tracks

#scifaikusaturday

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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I never want to be present when a ship’s line fails and whips the dock. 😱

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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Nothing?

That was an epic storm.

All praise “the indestructible module!”

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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Never a convenient cave when you really need one!

Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

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🤔

But…

What if you can’t evacuate fast enough?

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