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Rachel #7syllablesentence host 21-27 January
@vignettes.bsky.social
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Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.

Words in Epistemic Literary, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine

British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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Lovely sentences yesterday.
Today’s prompt is late, I overslept, your word for Sundays #7syllablesentence is gape 🪶

An opening, a hinge, a pause.

Happy writing an enjoy your day.
gape The opening hinge of a bird’s beak. An opening charged with need, shock, amazement or hunger.
January 25, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Hi everyone,
Staying close to structure.
Today’s prompt for #7syllablesentence is rib
rib A curved supporting bone or vein in a leaf. Structure that protects, holds, and quietly shapes form.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Thanks for you patience and humour yesterday. Let’s widen the frame a little.
Today’s prompt for #7syllablesentence is ash 🔥
January 23, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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Hi, thanks for taking part yesterday.
Let’s stay close, observational, tactile.
Today’s prompt for #7syllablesentence is lobe 🍃
lobe A rounded division of leaf, petal, or body. Soft edges; something whole made in parts.
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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The relief. Phew.
Or you might have had to dig out the old soda stream and make your own.
Maybe you're too young to remember?
Soda stream vintage
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Hi, I’m your host for the next 7 days.
Let’s zoom into the natural world and see what small forms open up for small sentences.
Today’s prompt for #7syllablesentence is bract 🌿
Bract - A leaf that frames or shelters a flower. What supports beauty, unseen. #7syllablesentence
January 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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A nature/climate change poem. Thanks for the #PromptCombo topic #subtext and the challenging terza rima. Hope I cracked the structure. 🫣
Hope you feel brighter this week @victoriaspires.bsky.social

#poems #writingprompts
Subtext The data bloomed first in the flowering rate, petals opening out of season, too soon, phenology flagged but filed as debate. Roots altered depth, mangroves learned the moon, fish rerouted spawning maps with care, currents shifted, plankton read the monsoon. Corals ghosted white in warming air, trees closed stomata, seas changed breath, and still we called it noise, not care.
January 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Yesterday's walk might get me through Monday, my weekly nature fix of until the days offer more light..

#photography #snapshots #nature
Lakes in winter, Tuscany, Italy. Lakes in winter, Tuscany, Italy.
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Today's #poetryprompt from #MPPrompt

A poem titled "Death of an Album"
Death of an Album We skim songs now, never staying long enough to be held. No more thick card breathing colour and dreams. No sleeve sigh, no weight of the story in the hands. I miss the tight shrink-wrap, the chemical bloom, static peel resisting, then giving way. The vinyl’s jet-black eye kissing light, grooves whispering patience, urging me all the way.
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Florentines with chestnut flour & no candied fruit. By the time i've adapted this they will barely be Florentine.
Yes, they will be dipped in chocolate.
Florentine biscuits, Italians & French argue over who made them first. Traditionally always made with butter, sugar, honey, hazelnuts & candied fruit & dark chocolate. Dark melted chocolate.
January 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Early morning walk by the lake. A weak watery sun in a milk white sky.
Tuscany, Italy Tuscany, Italy
January 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Todays #blueskyarthshow theme is #one

One winter rose holds on,
frost takes the edges first whilst the sky thins to white silent breath.

#nature #photography
Winter rose. My garden, my photo.
January 17, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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In winter, it's easy to find quiet hidden spaces..

Courtyard of sant'agnese convent, Montepulciano Tuscany.
Sant,Agnese, Montepulciano, Tuscany. Sant'agnese, montepulciano.
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Mists slide over rolling hills, a distant blurred & untruthful. Sunrise rests on the thick walls, warmth without teeth.
Toast crumbs granulate on my tongue, fig-sweet ghosts, while coffee sears briefly.
The fog muffles everything sharp.
I inhale and let nature teach me how not to burn.

#vss365
Winter views, Tuscany, Italy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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#words #writing
The news keeps biting. Bulletins arrive sharp, relentless. My words feel frivolous, indulgent, wanting light while the world bruises. Still, they gather like seeds under frozen ground, patient, insistent. They wait for thaw. They will rise anyway.
January 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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The light is harsh casting ugly shadows and beneath the morning mist lies dirty frozen slush.
Deep winter in Tuscany.
Traditional hilltop village Tuscany. Love the shapes of the street lights. This was taken today but i imagine it looked the same 50nyears ago. Local church, partly hidden in the fog. Tuscany.
January 10, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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I have to cook Italian food, I live here. Everytime I eat fresh pasta I wonder why I dont make it more often and then.....several hours later I remember why. It takes me so long.
Homemade tagliatelle Pasta machine
January 9, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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cool dawn, early dusk /
lone hare lopes through misted field/
apples bruise the grass

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt field
#haiku
Sketches of a hare and Jay.
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social
for our first 2026 #promptcombo. My #nightfall poem is steeped in ancient Turkish traditions, superstitions and folklore. Happy new year to all.
#poetry #poems
A bowl of salt waits on the sill, catching the last blue breath of day. She stirs it with her fingertip, circles widening like moons learning how to rise. Lemon peel warms the room; honey, burnt sugar, baklava breathing sweetness. A red thread rests on her wrist, warm now, bright as a promise she keeps touching. Rue seeds smoulder; the smoke loosens, unhurried, soft prayers rehearsed for a son. Beneath the pillow, cold iron lies, snipping the dark like paper dolls from air. And when the first star trembles awake in the sky, she closes her eyes, breathes in the blue-sweet air, and lets the night pour itself over her like honey from a patient spoon, cupping her in its slow, blue hush.
January 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Treasure hunting in Perugia.

Independent book store:
Mannaggia - Libri Da Un Altro Mondo translates as
Damn It - Books from Another World.

#indiebooks #reading #writing
Book store representing approximately 130 independent publishers from across Italy in 40 square meters. Perugia, old centre, Umbria, Italy
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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In winter the sternness is felt more keenly.

Italian city, Perugia, Umbria.
Church of Sant'Ercolano
Church of Sant'Ercolano, dedicated to the patron saint of Perugia martyred in 548 AD, was built between 1297 and 1326. climb the double flight of stairs and enter the octagonal temple that looks more like a fortified tower than a church. Immediately catapulted into a kingdom that conceals the Middle Ages and offers glimpses of Gothic elements, but which largely has a Baroque flavor. Baroque interior
January 3, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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cold siena dusk
grape canes stitched in rusted slopes
threads of patience grow

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#Prompt grapes thread
#haiku
Italian vineyard in winter
January 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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cold kitchen window /
I plan my life in sunflowers /
yellow futures wait

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt sun flower
#haiku
Vase of sunflowers
December 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Erm.. cheers 🤔
Bach rescue remedy
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Files open
Names fracture⬛️
faces broken into planes then swallowed whole by neat black rectangles
A mouth here, hand there
No body
⬛️ responsibility
redaction absence
It trains the eye where not to look, how to admire the geometry, subjects remain silently screaming gagged by power #MPPrompt
Files open. Names fractured. faces broken into planes then swallowed whole by neat black rectangles A mouth here, hand there. No body No responsibility. Redaction, absence It trains the eye where not to look, how to admire the geometry, while the subjects remain silently screaming, gagged by power. #MPPrompt Background cubist art from unknown source Pinterest
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM