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INK_John
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Stories in ink. Salt in my hair.
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Equality always. Stories forever.
Pinned
He sings to the stars,
hoping one will fall for him,
the sky is unmoved.

#DailyHaikuPrompt
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#vss365 #dark

just before sunrise
time inhales the dark
February 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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The #dark tugs at me
with silver-tongued promises
of comfort and numbness,
absolution from the horrors of this
world

Yet I resist, eyes wide open
heart cracking in two
as I hang by a thread, remembering that somewhere in the haze above remains a sun

#vss365
February 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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The waves rose
as if to touch the sky
The ocean heave-ho'd
to give another try

#vss365 #poetry #writingprompt #touch

📸 free pik
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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halo moon,
more snow
on the way
#haiku
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Week 2 of #NaHaiWriMo, we explore winter imagery with this #freeverse #haiku from Tré (@tregallery.com):

✨️❄️🪾❄️✨️

around poplar's
snowy bend
another short road

Thank you for joining our Haiku Month Wolf Pack Highlights every Tuesday.

#PoetryCommunity #poetry #photography #imageandverse ✍️
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Do I always get their jokes?
No.

Does their book press a perfect leaf? Absolutely.

#NewYorkerCartoons
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first #NativeAmerican woman to become a physician in the United States. A member of the Omaha tribe, she campaigned for public health & for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of her tribe.

#WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Black&White
Common Goldeneye ducks as seen this week on the river.

It’s fun watching them fish.
They dive for their food and when one goes under, the rest follow suit one by one as they notice their buddy nearby dive under the surface.
FOMO in nature 😅😂
February 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
#HaikuFeels #rant

He’ll rant for hours
No, no, he can’t rant, it’s true
Because it’s haiku
brace for syllables
today's #haikufeels #prompt is

rant
February 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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She lost her #lambent sky eyes
in the crush of still life.
She could see it,
pursed behind irises—
a dying speck of sun, shivering.
She tried to pluck it from a memory,
but like the ghosted flicker of stars,
it was already light-years away.

#vss365
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 AM
She sprayed the perfume, a fragrance not made in thirty years, its scent swirling around her like a forgotten dream. It smelled just like the one he had given her years ago. But as the fragrance faded, so did the memory of his face. She reached for more, desperate, but the bottle was dry.

#VSS365
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 4 is #ghost

"But that isn’t all.
Some of my ghosts are planets.
Not bright. Not young.
Spiraling deep in the dusk of my body
as saucers or moons
pleased with their belts of colored dust
& hailing no others."

'Ghosts', Kiki Petrosino

#4
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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My #soul speaks in riots
quiet though they may be.

Can you hear it?

Or is it but a whisper
a cacophony below a summer’s green,
a storm folded in brooding sea.

Or am I but a firefly
stealing kisses from the sun?

#vss365
February 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Short eared owl with wings outstretched.

#birdoftheday
alternate prompt
outstretched wing

photo by David Chernoff
February 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 2 is #soul

"Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone."

'Alone', Maya Angelou

#2
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The soul is the place where harm lands and meaning survives.

It looks different in everyone, but it’s always the part that still gets to choose.

The world can bruise us. It can’t author us.

#vss365 #soul
February 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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✨️🪨🌊☁️⛵️☁️🌊🪨✨️

clouds shape narrative
shoal r o c k tales
form a library

#BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds
#EastCoastKin #ImageAndVerse
#Cassiopeian Libraries

#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Wolftwin #ocean #ClassicMono
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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#photography #fotografía
#flowers #fujifilm #xt5

📷 ִֶָ𓂃𓈒𓏸‪❀ᵕ̈*
January 28, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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#SFFChat I don't label it in my story, but my MC is heavily Audhd coded. In-universe, this is hardly neuro*divergent* though, because different races think differently.
He's a half-orc and orcs are the race of chaos. All of them think in adhd patterns. Humans are the race of order.
#SFFChat Q1: Do you have any disabled or neurodivergent characters in your story? If so, talk about them here!
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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You #obfuscate your heart,
yet like moon’s silver edge,
your longings wander
the seams of nightfall,
before writing yourself across my skin.

Like stars peddling memories,
you dust me in your fragments—
half-formed notes of warmth
that dry on my heart
until shadows swallow you
once more.

#vss365
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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..i feel the sun today.. fire to my fire.. a burn.. in the best way.. burn-it-all-away.. let the ashes dance like ghosts.. in day-light-remains..

©️dww
.
#quotes #lyrical #sun #alchemy #indiesongwriter #writer #songstress #philosophy #rebirth #solarreturn
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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how long
will you stand at the edge?
this place where boulder hovers
and pain boils
in a cauldron of memories

how many locks upon your heart
'til the weight keels you over?
wings, trained to shutter in flight
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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“Dusk blankets the ground,
The pack armed with moonlit eyes,
Emerges as one.”
#haikufeels
January 28, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Happy Hump Day, everyone!
Today is January 28th,
and I’m glad to be back hosting this
#7syllablesentence prompt again—
your word is #gloam.

If you’re interested in hosting this prompt soon, please
let Gabe know @poetguygabe.bsky.social

#7syllablesentence #prompt #gloam #amwriting
January 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM