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Jenny Gaitskell
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Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.

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https://www.jennygaitskell.com/

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 11d
all at once
the hedgebirds tell me
look up

#DailyHaikuPrompt (twittering)
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moschoenfeld.bsky.social
bones of spring
glare of returned sun
on potholes

#DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuFeels #vss365 #haiku #poetry #MicroPoetry
February 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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welcometowillerby.bsky.social
Willerby is just off the A5, which some people call Watling Street.

We call it by the name it had before the Romans got here.

Some of our ghosts insist on that.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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joypops.bsky.social
icebound castle~
every hall
erupts
in white roses
blooming

#UnknownFairyTales
February 9, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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catbake.bsky.social
a streetlight halo
the cherry tree in stillness
waiting for something
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England).
🐡🪶
#birdingNortheast
Pen and watercolour illustrations of waders/shorebirds from the Hartlepool/Teesmouth area of northeast England
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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jessdean77.bsky.social
Threading the tides..

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides…is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”
- Rachel Carson

atmos.earth/ecological-w...

#rockingtuesday #tides #biodiversity
B&W of the rocky tide pools in Central America. Mini ecosystems lost to the eye’s view.. sharing tides with the planet’s huge system in human survival. B&W of a sea bird standing on a miniature rock island in the midst of a tide pool. Weighing its options to catch something scurrying around under the water.
February 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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polloscope.bsky.social
pages in her log
contain a heavenly map
of constellations
Andromeda sings stories
of her stellar memories

#TankaThursday
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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haikubycrane.bsky.social
halo moon,
more snow
on the way
#haiku
The moon shining through trees and down on a secluded road in the middle of the night.
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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joypops.bsky.social
rain on cobblestones~
inside the bookshop
a small lamp glowing

#haiku
February 11, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
For Tuesday February 10th the prompt is #sneak #thingstowriteabout
A small figure with his back against the wall peers out. Near to the camera there is a pretend bucket of sand.
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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inkmine.bsky.social
mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Mon Feb 09, 2026

Weekly #Prompt - OFFBEAT WITTY SEISMIC QUIRKY RAUCOUS SWOON

post with hashtag: #inkMine
over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekly Prompt: OFFBEAT, WITTY, SEISMIC, QUIRKY, RAUCOUS, SWOON use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write please credit art & photos combo prompts welcome post with the hashtag #inkMine
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
jennygaitskell.bsky.social
last quarter moon
if not for this windsong
I'd forget you

#DailyHaikuPrompt (moon)
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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catbake.bsky.social
squinting against rain
flooded ruts in the lane shine
like silver headlights
February 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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sarahhina.bsky.social
sports day
I watch the gold
silver bronze
of the sparrows
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
QRP with your skull art
Art piece of a drawing in white ink against a black background of a symmetrical, fanciful looking beetle with a skull on the upper part of its carapace surrounded by abstract doodles.
February 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
Monday February 9th is #castle but if you want a challenge why not try #axolotl 😉 #thingstowriteabout
A miniature castle with a small light green pretend axolotl.
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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xxyxxy.com
Simple and to the point... My kind of dinosaur. Currently at xxyxxy.com

#ceramic #dinosaur #necklace
A yellow ceramic dinosaur with red stripes and a gray belly.
February 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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ninanazir.bsky.social
So pleased to have my poem The Other Face of Goddess published with @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for their latest challenge 🌟 You may read it here if you wish...👇🏽

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#freeversepoem #theekphrasticreview #publication
The Other Face of Goddess
We Are All Eve, © Monica Marks, 2023 She spreadsher navel-gazing selfacross sky and plane. Airborne she is elixirgestating, carnival of magenta, seascape and uproariousfemmescap…
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January 30, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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jolantru.bsky.social
Where the stories come from and why we need translations, more than ever.

lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
Twelve sunshines are positioned around a map of the Earth, across regions of the Americas, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.
February 8, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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moschoenfeld.bsky.social
#haiku #monoku #poetry #PoetryCommunity
February 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
Today for Sunday February 8th the prompt is #door #thingstowriteabout
A miniature door with knocker and letter box opening.
February 8, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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silby.bsky.social
garb for midwinter;
left in a pocket, last year’s
crumpled paper crown
jennygaitskell.bsky.social Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · Dec 19
old winter coat
the ghost of Christmas past
in its pocket

#DailyHaikuPrompt (winter)
February 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
Just imagine. They're already poisoning the earth to power generative AI. The least useful tech tool developed in ages. It's like extinguishing the sun so that vampires can walk around all day.
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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joyousjoyness.com
My painting, "AAAAAAA with a Side of Eggs," part of the Culinary Critters Collection!

Check out the whole collection: www.joyousjoyness.com/collections/...

#art #opossum #possum #egg #food #sciart #painting
Painting titled, "AAAAAAA with a Side of Eggs." Painting of a screaming opossum surrounded by brightly colored sunnyside up eggs on a blue background.
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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athanaca.bsky.social
The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧

#bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist
An illustration of a great cormorant standing in front of buttering
February 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM