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and from the rupture that was breaking our hearts we came forth clean again, naked, loving each other without dream, without sand, complete and radiant, sealed by fire. -Pablo Neruda, The Dream

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Minstrelsy @minstrelsy.bsky.social · Feb 9

Etched upon my heart,
sweetest music of your mind
enraptures me still

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing

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Minstrelsy @minstrelsy.bsky.social · 14h

What you've become,
and what has
become of you

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · May 6

"What did the earth teach the trees?
How to speak to the sky."

-Pablo Neruda

two bare trees on the side of a road in a wildlife refuge. there are mountains in the distance and a cloud in the sky.

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 2d

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Mon Oct 06, 2025

Weekly #Prompt - PLEDGE TEASE LEDGER TEMPT JASMINE INSOMNIA

post with hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekly Prompt: PLEDGE, TEASE, LEDGER, TEMPT, JASMINE, INSOMNIA

use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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Faded Romantic @afadedromantic.bsky.social · 2d

October
has a promise
in every turning leaf

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paulst001.bsky.social @paulst001.bsky.social · 2d

Close up of a pink scented rose from our garden

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Amanda @amandawrites.bsky.social · 2d

I finally pulled my actual camera (Lumix FZ1000) out of the closet and started relearning how to use it (and an SD card reader...sheesh!)

Here are some practice pics I snapped of my potted patio hibiscus.

#bloomscrolling #macro

A close-up shot of 2 red-orange hibiscus blooms. This one is my favorite.

2 red-orange hibiscus blooms at a more comfortable distance.

A close-up shot of 2 red-orange hibiscus blooms.

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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 3d

stay with me, love
oh stay, in this momentary now

every breath
a brief bookmark
in a story we can’t
bear to close

#poetry

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Jess @jessdean77.bsky.social · 3d

Sunset hours slip-n
thru fades of autumn’s long light.
Orange quaking aspen
to evergreens, outlining
nature’s calico canvas..

#sunsets #ColorADay #OrangeSun #eastcoastkin
#Stunday #tanka #nature

Colored photo of my backyard aspen as sun slips into the night.

Autumn is in the air.. rock cropping with a scape of varying colors defining the scene.

One last peek of the sun setting thru the field of colorful fall foliage.

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Janet Nestor @janetnestor.bsky.social · 3d

The leaves are beginning to change. I love this time of year.

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Amanda @amandawrites.bsky.social · 3d

To know your kiss...
an atom-splitting instance

cyclonic inferno in a
fiery blitz of synapses

the kiss of ancients
lives spent and ever-present

presaged in near-waking dreams,
in the sorrowed sighs
of hushed whispers in the mind

#inkmine 1/2

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Minstrelsy @minstrelsy.bsky.social · 3d

When the South wind calls,
the Learned know its promise,
its whispers of love
blanket us in purest light,
faith in brighter days to come

#inkmine #tanka

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Minstrelsy @minstrelsy.bsky.social · 3d

transit layover
laundered for return trip home
bedroom chair marooned

#haiku

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · Sep 2

this little spider
in the dark under the stairs
so comfortable

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Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 24d

We’d trade vibes instead of prices, measure time in heartbeats, and count success by how your dog greets you at the door.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22d

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

Green, grassy fields in the foreground with a tree, shrubs and flowers. Trees in the background including two red Japanese maples and a stand of pines on a ridge. Further back, a sliver of sea with hills rising behind. The sun lights clouds from behind with some blue sky remaining.

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 5d

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Oct 03, 2025

Weekend #Prompt - KNOW
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: KNOW

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #October, people. I’m welcome n in the best month of the year with some classic #raybradbury #gothic tales.

Black text in white:

OCTOBER COUNTRY
...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. ...

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Andrew Brindle @andrewbrindle.bsky.social · 9d

embers
of the fading day
silence remains
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 9d

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Mon Sept 29, 2025

Weekly #Prompt - MYSTERY STAMINA PAN HISTORY ANATHEMA PLAN

post with hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekly Prompt: MYSTERY, STAMINA, PAN, HISTORY, ANATHEMA, PLAN

use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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Amanda @amandawrites.bsky.social · 8d

#SenseWrds Prompt 126

numbness in blue
downcast eyes
warmed by dappled daylight

palms bloom in peace
childhood friend dissipates
like the tinkling notes
the shifting winds play

cloaked by the night,
kneeling in the autumn quiet,
I sow lightbulbs for spring

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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 8d

Home from the sea
Mitchell P
#art

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David @haikubycrane.bsky.social · 11d

our siloed realities
interrupted
by a fallen leaf

#haiku #nature #relationships

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 12d

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Sept 26, 2025

Weekend #Prompt - ACCIDENT
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: ACCIDENT

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 16d

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Mon Sept 22, 2025

Weekly #Prompt - TORN CONCERN ASCEND IMMENSE AUTUMNAL CONCEPT

post with hashtag: #inkMine

over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekly Prompt: TORN, CONCERN, ASCEND, IMMENSE, AUTUMNAL, CONCEPT

use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine

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Mitchell Squid @mitchellsquid.bsky.social · 15d

Accidental
Mitchell P
#art

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