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Kaz_the_Kumquat

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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 · 9d

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

🍊 🐉

#KazThoughts #MicroPoem #CreativeWriting #DragonLogic

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

Thank you ✨🧡🙏

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 6d

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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i am Dags @iamdags.bsky.social · 1d

Stomping my feet around my head.
I do this not to prove that someone is home,
But to wake up and then regret a memory.

I never considered her insight.
Now I can see that
Half the time the world really is beautiful.

#poetry
#poem

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social · 1d

this sadness
woven through the years
like lace
late frost

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

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ElleM @ellem111.bsky.social · 1d

crows know who we are.
they remember who feeds them.
build a bond with birds.

#HaikuFeels #Haiku #Micropoetry #Poetry

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

Pond skater,
Ignoring the force of the depths,
A master of pull.

🏄 🐜

#WSS366 #Surface #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #Haiku #NaturePoem #WaterInsects #PondDipper #SurfaceTension #PhysicsInNature

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

Cold law 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 be served,
My brother's blood stains the square,
For the 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 of all.

👑 💔

#BlueSkyRelay #DailyPrompt #Realm #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #Kinslayer #PoliticalSacrifice #ColdLaw #DutyVsLove #TheKingWhoCulls
#Tragedy #HighFantasy

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

We walk on our path,
Unknowing the length of our thread,
Just to play our part.

🧶 📜

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober5 #DailyPrompt #Moirai #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #Katabasis #FinalJourney #Underworld #Classics #TheFates #Destiny #GreekMythology #MythsAndLegends #StringsOfFate #Fatalism

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

#MondayMotivation
#MondayThoughts
writingforwellbeing.co.uk

Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that.

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

I know someone who volunteers at a church museum, they very occasionally at special events ring the bell ... And local people complain 🤦 even though the church was there waaaay before the houses 😅 and they do it maybe once a year, if that, and during the day 🤦🤣

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen this sign in the wild too! 🤣 🐮 🐷 🐐

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

🤣 I know, right? Did make me do a double take whilst assembling it! I'm guessing a translation error 😅

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to ..

Alt: a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to ..

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

Love it! 🧡🐉 Well done with connecting all the prompts to fit! 🛶🌊

a drawing of a man sitting in front of a black wall

Alt: a drawing of a cyclops sitting in front of a black wall

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 2d

When sailing stygian waters—
secret #realms of self,
I try to stear my #ship
clear of monsters
unlike Odysseus,
near #bitten by Charybdis.

Some parts #resemble
Penelope's loving arms,
others #associate
with Circe's witchy charms.

To truly know oneself—
An arduous journey
like a personal
Odyssey.

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

House and picket fence,
I know it's just a pipe dream,
Still, I buy the paint.

🏡 🫟

#WSS366 #Pipe #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #KeepDreaming #Hope #Wistful #AGreatAmericanDream #BitterSweet #Dreamer

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

two cats are playing in the snow and one is black and white

Alt: two cats are playing in the snow and one is black and jumping into a snow drift

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