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L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much! 😊✨

L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 2d

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Yet it never was a plague. It’s a cancer that has long since replaced our essence. We are no longer associated with humanity. The moon retreats. There is nothing left to save.

(Artwork Mine)

#vss365 #fromoneline #blueskyrelay #vssdaily #weirdmicro

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L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 2d

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I've never seen the moon exert its power this way before. Beyond the tides, its pull invades realms deep within our souls, attempting to draw out the unknowable evil it assumes is plaguing us.

Artwork of cracked face glaring up, moonlight tinting it.

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Lorenzo Hall 🍉 @lorenzohall.com · 2d

Hope is a powerful thing.

When there's no way in sight, it can guide you.

When you are out of strength it can renew you.

Yet, hope is a living thing. It must be fostered and sustained.

It can be born of one, but thrives among many.

And if cared for, it will tell the story of what it survived.

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 2d

your heart
softer than a cloud
a fractured rainbow
drifting through
the hollow of my chest

#Photography Mary
@mjwyatt.bsky.social

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Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social · 3d

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#tanka

Each lie dims thy soul
we associate with masks
not the silent truth
denying what spirit seeks
true bond beyond thy own self
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#haiku

Wearing borrowed truths
we associate with noise
stillness calls the soul

~rev

#vss365
#associate
#spiritual

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

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Eileen Curley Hammond @curleyhammcozy.bsky.social · 2d

“Understand?”

She nodded once, then bounded from the park bench.

Her friend waited. “Get in trouble?”

“Something about I shouldn’t #associate with the wrong kind.” She shrugged.

“Wrong kind of giraffe?” The little girl swung from the bars. “Adults are weird.” #vss365

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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen
the moon,
quite
like this,
hung up on a string,
against a cardboard sky
with the scene you’ve
prepared
for me

#fromoneline 363 #poetry

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 3d

So love doesn't follow all the rules
Bodies just vessels to hold
It’s the inside that matters
What feeds quenches us

We’re all beautiful
In somebodys minds eye
The place time unforseen
Till the flutters of a big bang within
Become the #associate to bind
Us as one

#vss365

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 2d

i write of rivers
as if i know
where they will take me

#inkmine
#know

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MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 2d

ample power
of the night chill;
teardrops freeze

#HaikuChallenge #ample
#vssdaily #power
#DailyHaikuPrompt #night_chill
#BraveWrite #teardrop
#Haiku #micropoetry

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · 2d

Shadow falls on dust
The coal-black, eternal crow
Nevermore, its gaze

#HaikuFeels #Prompt #Crow #Haiku #Poetry #Poe #Writing #BlueskyPhotography #Birds #Birding #Crows #Wildlife #Nature #BackyardBirding #Corvids #Gothic #Nevermore

A close-up photo of a black crow perched on a dark railing. The crow faces forward but has its head turned to the upper left, looking into the distance. Its feathers are a rich, deep black, providing high contrast against the soft, blurred green background.

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L. R. Hudgins @abqmtngirl.bsky.social · 5d

Time feels elastic
The earth holding its breath
With every sunrise

#vss365 #haiku

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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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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 2d

October's Harvest Moon is a real Thriller this year. This is page 64 of @tregallery.com and my 2024 book Moonscape. Available at www.wolftwin.com
#haiku #poetry #october #supermoon #harvestmoon #halloween #illustration #poetry

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Kunal 🌅 @poetickunal.bsky.social · 2d

now that
you know
that you
know nothing
pick your pen
for in this
#realm
of knowledge
observe
the depth
by staying afloat
to find
yourself.

#BlueSkyRelay #Prompt #Micropoetry #Poem #Poetry #writingcommunity

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Flame of Firedrake @flameoffiredrake.bsky.social · 3d

Asleep
Yet walking within
Herself
Very much
Awake

Escape
Insurmountable

She'd
Dreamed
Nightmares
Real
And
Brought forth
Therefrom
Monsters
Most foul

Monsters
Gnawing on human bone
Bathing in their blood
Their war cries
Carrying heavy
On the outterskirts
Of her heart

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Haiku Crush @haikucrush.bsky.social · 5d

#Haiku is alive in 2025!

Please repost this reminder... The Best Haiku search ends in 10 days! Submit at HaikuCrush.com

#callforsubmissions #poetrycommunity #poetry #micropoetry #senryu #monoku #haikusaturday #saturdayhaiku #haikufeels #haikuchallenge #writingcommunity #writers #poetrybook #poets

Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku

HaikuCrush.com

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johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social · 7d

"the sharp edges of
shifting winds
slice off the old skin"

(yet another snippet of one of my poems-in-progress)

📸: my own

#PoetryCommunity, #PoetryOfCanada, #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Photography #Canada #nature

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 3d

His life was scarred, by cruelty…

Unfortunately these are real events. Experienced by myself and people I’ve known...

Always be kind, always respect each other, always take care…

#VSS365 #Whistpr #VSSDaily
#VSSMagic #Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Abuse

He hated High School
The hunt for #ribbons in the sports…
He was #abused by his peers
He doesn’t #miss that time at all

Kids hold unknowable evil
At least some of them.
They abused their #powers
Wherever they claimed their #realm

To this day he #associated teens
As the evil kind he’d known
Like a #veil stopping him from the truth
He’d been #bitten by the evil of teens

He wouldn’t have kids of his own
Didn’t want those experiences on them
Even though he knew most kids weren’t
All that bad. Still he feared them.

The echo of cruelty never quite left

#VSS365 Associate
#Whistpr Ribbon
#VSSDaily Power
#VSSMagic Bitten
#Emoetry Abused
#WIPSnips Miss
#BlueSkyRelay Realm
#WoTtober Veil
#WeirdMicro Unknowable Evil

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · Jul 20

My novella Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social is open for preorders now! Grateful to @joeyhedger.bsky.social who said some generous and smart things about it.

malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

TERRESTRIAL a novella placeholder at Malarkey Books with quote from Joey Hedger: "Here, Eynon writes with poetic precision about contradictions: her characters are charming and awkward, vast and introspective. Her focus is on the lonely, the mundane and the spectacular. TERRESTRIAL is wildly human while exploring that which makes us alien to ourselves and each other.”

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 5d

Tea dreams.

An ink drawing of a tea cup and all the steam turns into shapes, like bonsais trees. Two tiny moons float above the tea steam, perfectly aligned with a white moon spot on the side of the cup. The cup itself has weave patterns around the top and fish scale patterns around the belly.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Invertober day 4!

Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)

Reference photo by nonbinary-naturalist on iNaturalist

#SciArt #art #Invertober2025

Digital painting of an orange and black-patterned weevil with long nose and shiny shell. It is casting a shadow onto an abstract background of light blue stripes with a thin orange highlight against a darker blue background.

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Òrak @orrinonline.bsky.social · 7d

in a sea of blackness
sound of laughing bones—
my inner child
plays quietly

#tanka

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