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Alan Vincent Michaels
@alanvmichaels.bsky.social
#SFF Speculative fiction author & poet | SFWA & SFPA member | archaeohistorian | genealogist | photographer

#Prompt host:
#ScifaikuSaturday
#SFStoryPrompt
#Fantaiku (@Fantaiku.bsky.social)

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What a coincidental time to exist. 🤔

On 10 January 1776, “Common Sense” was published anonymously. Later it was revealed to be the work of English writer, Founding Father, etc., Thomas Paine.

#CommonSense was his seminal argument for America’s independence from England.

It still rings true today!
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@ayisi_yaw (X) & I (Bsky) are switching hosting duties for Jan 2026’s #Fantaiku & #ScifaikuSaturday prompts

The weekly #prompt for 11 Jan 2026 is #REVEAL

#BlueSkyPoetry
#Fantasy
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingPrompts

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January 11, 2026 at 5:36 AM
What a coincidental time to exist. 🤔

On 10 January 1776, “Common Sense” was published anonymously. Later it was revealed to be the work of English writer, Founding Father, etc., Thomas Paine.

#CommonSense was his seminal argument for America’s independence from England.

It still rings true today!
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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We are not passive
In the face of massive loss
Dreams ascend in pods

#ScifaikuSaturday (pod)
#haiku #senryu
#emoetry #passive
#blueskyartshow #vivid
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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light and time bending
naïve humans acquire
a shiny pearl

#ScifaikuSaturday (pod)
#haiku
#senryu
January 11, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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desert air spinning
illuminating pod scene
geographic scope

#SciFaikuSaturday
#micropoetry
#3lines
#haiku
January 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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apparently
not a milkweed pod:
it coils round my wrist

#SciFaikuSaturday (pod)
#senryu
January 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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seven pod dinner
but a surfeit of moon food
tastes just like sorrow

new favourite tune
the hab's falsetto alarm
at incoming comms

home's a thousand scents
bet when I smell rain again
it's moon dust I'll miss

#ScifaikuSaturday (pod)
#inkMine (sorrow)
#ThingsToWriteAbout (alarm)
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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open plan office
to each their own
broken pod

#SciFaikuSaturday (pod) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry
January 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Cocooned
This transparent pod
Of consciousness

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday pod
January 10, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Saturday, January 10th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts

#RetroArtPrompt ⬇️
#OurPoetryX Novelty
#SciFaikuSaturday Pod
#ThreeWordGenre Emberscold
Fix my #CubistPoem 👇 with your own interpretation in any creative medium #RetroArtPrompt for Jan.10th:

It’s no huddle but muddle
~ Fear ~
Self-
Exposure
Pretense
Illusion
Disillusionment
Hatred
Breaking reality in struggle
©️ #Seranya #CubistPoet 🦄

#Writing #Poetry via #Poetry #Prompt #MPPrompt ✌️❤️🦋
Today’s #poetryprompt:

This prompt is for those of us who have been struggling to write lately.

Something short, no more than 10 lines and 50 words, about something you did today. No big themes or philosophical thoughts required.

#MPPrompt
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January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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strange pods glowing blue
shimmering mouths in the night
native speech in light

#scifaikusaturday #haiku #dailyhaiku #sciencefiction #scifiaku #scifansaturday
January 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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A pod? What is this?
New novelty from the skies
calls us with thunder.

Seams split with a hiss!
Two eyes: dancing fireflies,
taking in wonder.

Drawn from the Abyss...
There! An unmissable prize:
a world to plunder.

#OurPoetryX #ScifaikuSaturday #vss365
#scifi #poetry
#POD
#unmissable
#novelty
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Ignore the comet
Pick and pod the peas and beans
Marry the black soil

#scifaikusaturday #pod #fantaiku
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
At the moment, it seems something’s seriously amiss with Bluesky’s sorting algorithm, when displaying Posts, etc. 😳😬
January 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Tortoise-shaped pods crack
Earth’s temperatures spiral
Tuned viruses ooze

©Alan Vincent Michaels @AlanVMichaels.bsky.social

#2WordPrompt #temperature #tortoise
#ScifaikuSaturday #pod
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 10-JAN-26 is:

Temperature & Tortoise

#Prompt
January 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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empty eyes and minds
bodies go through the motions
pod people rule us
#scifaikusaturday
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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live in the cluster
kubernetes pods for souls
digital people
#scifaikusaturday
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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For their pods, they took
all the sorrowful people
with the greatest care.
#inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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the pod's smouldering
unmissable fireworks
about to occur

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#WritingCommunity
#vss365 #SciFaikuSaturday #DailyHaikuPrompt #inkMine (sorrow)
January 10, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Jealous eyes watching
Low chance of coming from Mars
Still the tri #pods came

#scifaikusaturday #sff #haikuprompts #senryu #waroftheworlds #jeffwayne #hgwells

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January 10, 2026 at 9:59 AM