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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social · 8h

'Wonderful." #bookrecommendation

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www.amazon.ca/Housie-Mousi...
www.amazon.com/Housie-Mousi... #ThursdayThoughts #autumnleaves #pumpkins #pumkinspice #Mystery #cozymystery #kidsbooks #books #eating #sport #fun #animals #pets #childrensbooks

Housie Mousie and the Big Cheese

Housie Mousie and the Big Cheese : Davies, Suzy, Geiger, Helen: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social · 9h

Have a good laugh with the kids

www.amazon.co.uk/Poop-Dragon-...
www.amazon.ca/s?k=poop+the...
www.amazon.com/Poop-Dragon-... #comedy #comics #picturebooks #pblit #readers #reads #funny #farty #poop #dragon

Poop the Dragon

Poop the Dragon eBook : Davies, Suzy , Campbell, Lizy: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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MJM Grand @huntnfish8.bsky.social · 14d

Two weeks ago I was waiting for the #sunrise and someone painted the sky..

Happy Wednesday

Pre-dawn Bowman Lake
Glacier National Park

#scape #landscape #eastcoastkin #nationalparks #Montana

This photograph captures the stillness of a pre-dawn moment in the mountains. A wide lake lies calm and glassy in the foreground, perfectly mirroring the sky above. The water reflects the early light—soft shades of lavender, pale blue, and faint pink streaks that run through the clouds.

On either side, dark mountain ridges frame the scene, their slopes still cloaked in shadow. In the distance, jagged peaks rise against the faint glow of approaching day, the horizon glowing faintly with a hint of peach and gold where the first light of sunrise begins to emerge.

The atmosphere is hushed and serene, as if the world is holding its breath, waiting for the day to break. The colors are muted yet delicate, painting a tranquil, almost ethereal scene where water, sky, and mountain blend together in quiet harmony.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 16h

Here's my effort

#vss365

Dustrophy

(ASHES)
(ASHEs
(ASHes
(AShes
(Ashes
ashes
ash
falls
from UPPER
to lowercase,
the unstoppable
journey
to trophied
dust.

#ash
#poetrycommunity
#writerscommunity

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 15h

I preserve the trees
the beautiful forest green
I light the backfires

In dry air grass burns
burns up the fodder
that feeds the flame

Green leaves not black
robust limbs not infirmed
trees feed dreams

With unencumbered flames
those trees will burn to ash
#vss365 #ash #poetry #photography

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you💙♥️🙏

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Mo Hayes @mohayeswriter.bsky.social · 1d

‘How was your trip?’

‘Fine. We started with a bit of a #clash, though.’

‘What happened?’

‘I asked a lady if she would change seats with me because I was traveling with my husband, and she refused.’

‘How rude.’

‘I know. So I had to sit next to him for the whole 10-hour flight!

#vss365

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 1d

I used to believe
that the lie would die
When the truth clashed with a lie
Now illusion reigns
and I can't define the sides

Perhaps it was all
a misbegotten fantasy
That a was a and b was b
Or perhaps just the clarity
of an innocent life
#vss365 #clash #poetry

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 1d

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Author Suzy Davies Award-Winning Children's Books and YA LitFic @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social · 2d

This children's book is a warm-hearted fall read.

www.amazon.co.uk/Housie-Mousi...
www.amazon.ca/Housie-Mousi...
www.amazon.com/Housie-Mousi... #schoolchoice #kindness #care #share #turntaking #adventure #food #friends #FF #sport #gifts #readingsky #youngreaders #mglit #middlegradefiction #mgbook

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning writer/authors/poets ready for day 6 of our musical mystery tour?

Let's skip back to the early 80s music scene & Party Fears Two by The Associates one of my fave songs of all time, today's #vss365 #prompt, 06/10/25, is #associate.

What's your favourite party song?

two men singing and playing guitars in front of a window

ALT: two men singing and playing guitars in front of a window

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my effort

#vss365

Resuscitation

I ass( )ciate
filling g a ps

with

g a s p e d
b
r
e
a
t
h

sp sp sp sputtered words
to FILL the air, anything
to reach you when
the
heart
b
e
a
t
s
slow.

#associate
#poetrycommunity

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 2d

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i grow by the brook
it sings to me
but has forgotten my name

time has forgotten
me
us
you

and there is a thirst
no song can slake

the sun warms me
i associate that with love
or its memory

when there was
you.
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 2d

Leaves dance daily
Silent music of the wind
Down around and up again
Twirling colored costumes
Of associates and friends
First one then two then more
And soon they line
a crowded dance floor
#vss365 #associate #poetry

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 3d

Good night have a great week #sunset #photography

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you...and thanks for reading!!

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PS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 3d

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bluebells ring faint
‘long the forest's edge
adrift in pollen & ache

you are present
in an oleander breeze
laughing at how we cannot
cast shadows

i advert to a blackbird’s song
she beckons me
to the evergloom
'neath the birches

where my shadow
withdrew, long ago
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#vss365 #poetry #read

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed input!!

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 3d

Morning creatives we're a third of the way through our journey, it's day 5 already!

One of my favourite songs of the punk era is Gary Gilmore's Eyes by the Adverts, so today's #vss365 #prompt 05/10/25, is #advert . Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What is your favourite song of all time?

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 3d

Your advert spot on
Saying all the right things
You look good in digital
Our interests align
Your history replete
No blemishes there
We should probably meet
But it's buyer beware
And I'm so incomplete
So I think I'll stay lonely
#vss365 #advert #poetry

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 4d

What does it ask of me
Not an hour in a week
Just a tender minute
Seconds gathered
and set free
A gesture on the street
A soft word in the wind
To warm the meek
To walk toward not away
when I cross the street
When it beckons when it speaks
That's all kindness asks of me
#poetry #poetrycommunity

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard to ignore
Five hundred million children of war
Death is the norm
Hearts pulled out and war torn
Hate to the core
No future for love
As the digits fall
But who's keeping score
#poetry #war #humanrights

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 4d

the tide rushes in
the estuary stretches
then it shrinks again
#vss365 #elastic #Haiku

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Mo Hayes @mohayeswriter.bsky.social · 4d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMrEcWNK/

VSS365 Fun

TikTok video by Mo Hayes

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CliveReed @clivereed.bsky.social · 4d

I sit on a log
in elastic thought
I tug on this and that
Drain the turgid
the rigid cracks
but I don't settle on anything
as darkness expands
and daylight contracts
ideas are the same
nothing has changed
once again
#vss365 #elastic #poetry #photography

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