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𝖶𝗋𝗂𝗍𝖾𝗋|𝗉𝗈𝖾𝗍|𝖺𝗆𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗎𝗋 𝗉𝗁𝗈𝗍𝗈𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗁𝖾𝗋 (𝖺𝗅𝗅 ✍️📷=©𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖾 𝗎𝗇𝗅𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗋𝖾𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗍). 𝖶𝗈𝗋𝖽𝗌 𝗉𝗎𝖻𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗁𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗇 𝗏𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗈𝗎𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗅𝗈𝗀𝗂𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖺𝗌𝗌𝗈𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖼𝗈𝗅𝗅𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌. 𝖪𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌 𝗆𝖺𝗍𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝖽𝖺𝗆𝗆𝗂𝗍.

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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 3

A song that starts with C

"Cordelia" - Tragically Hip
Cordelia
YouTube video by The Tragically Hip - Topic
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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lynmac.bsky.social
New Year, new life and all that

Also there is something I like about the word unfurl

#BlueSkyArtShow #NewYear #ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #ferns #macro #plants
Close up view of a fern frond in the process of unfurling.
January 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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billmontei.bsky.social
Where Will The #NewYear Take Us?
#BlueskyArtShow #photography
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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sonnetsmith.bsky.social
I have returned to where I started off for #FaeSense this week
A Shakespearean Sonnet.
(Although this one has a little more to it @daveashleypoet.bsky.social )

Here is sonnet 055

(I don't name my Shakespearean sonnets.)

#sonnet #sea #waves #acrostic #nature #poetry #blueskypoet
So softly rolls the surf into the sand O'er shells and stones, ground fine into a dust Until, on tidal leash in Luna's hand No slack remains, retreat the ocean must. Day in, day out, and back, and forth it goes Spitting out foam and froth across the beach Opens its maw, to swallow branch and stone Feeding on everything within its reach. The hiss, the roar, the plop, the gulp, the sigh, Heard every time it rises from its bed Echoes off the cliffs, into the sky So loud, yet oh so soft each sound is said Each whisper, slow, across the sand uncurls A thousand whispers can reshape the world
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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robojesi.bsky.social
A brief thunderstorm
Is just the sea telling you
"Hello! I miss you!"

#FaeSense #Sea #Prompts #Poetry #WritingCommunity #Haiku #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky
ignorantfairy.bsky.social Matthias (glimmering) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 6d
New #FaeSense #prompt
Let yourself be inspired by the sounds of the sea

See #alt-text in replies.

Have fun creating! 🌊🌊🌊
December 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
mightyathena.bsky.social
#DailyHaikuPrompt | New Year, beach
#dailyimageprompt #dip7
#abstract #haiku #haiga #poetry #art
As inspired by several prompts, starting with #dailyimageprompt #dip7 #abstract photo. To me, it looks like a woman laying on her back at the beach, her head propped on a turquoise blue blanket. She's wearing a colourful beach wrap, oranges and and tans and yellows and reds. Her book held overhead is bright yellow, warm as the sun. In black text over the picture: the year turns anew hot sand tempered by blankets - a book’s comfort #DailyHaikuPrompt | New Year, beach #dailyimageprompt #dip7 #abstract #haiku #haiga #poetry #art
January 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
manicured mirrors
made-up mirages mining
meandering muse

#tautogram #senryu #poetry #alliteration #poetrycommunity

[Tautograms have become my latest addiction, there's just something about them that makes my cortex hum in satisfaction]
January 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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racheldarker.bsky.social
Afternoon nap anyone? 💙

#art #dailysketch #quotes #wisdom #watercolour #digitalart #meme #racoon #shakespeare #sleep #dreams #life #naptime #procreate #digitalart
Raccoon slumbers on a branch. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” Shakespeare. Watercolour style digital art created on procreate.
September 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
mightyathena.bsky.social
Reading this/alt-text, a George Bernard Shaw quote springs to mind: 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑦 “𝑊ℎ𝑦?” 𝐴𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 “𝑊ℎ𝑦?” 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, & 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑦 “𝑊ℎ𝑦?” 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒, & 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑦, “𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡?” Happy New Year, Lola. I'll join you in continuing our stories whilst sussing out what it means to Be 🕊️💜🦋✨
lolajovan.com Lola Jovan @lolajovan.com · 5d
We Swim Amid Particles
oil on Yupo
12 x 19.5

And meanwhile,
up here,
we swim amid particles
we cannot perceive
folded into dimensions
we cannot imagine - MARIA POPOVA

Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p813/f...

#art #painting #crow #crowart #fantasyart #oilpainting

Story-ALTtext⬇️
A gigantic crow sits atop a small boat against an abstracted sky ad sea. The quote continues: “to tell stories about what is real and what is possible, and what it means to be. “ And just like that, we're here at the end of a year. A year of telling stories and of trying to figure out what it means to be. It is tempting to count the blog posts, the paintings, the canvases shipped and the ones remaining, the comments, the followers, the reposts and shares. It is tempting to tease out what the counts actually mean, what stories they tell. And yet. That is the way I used to be (data-driven and quantified) and I cannot now be entirely that anymore. Instead, I pause and notice what I am thinking now, how I am feeling, whether I am energized or exhausted, inspired or depleted, engaged or withdrawn. How does it feel at the end of a year? All the information I need is right there. It is more difficult for me to check in than to measure. More challenging to probe and question than to analyze. But there is gold in them thar hills, and I am excited to go looking for it. I put one foot in the river and smile. Despite the whole world seeming to run amok with madness and mayhem, what is real, what is possible here in this very moment is good. Very, very good. I am curious - do you have end of year practices in your world?
January 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
half-moon hangs as
hoof print filled with snow
more ways to go

#DailyHaikuPrompt #moon #haiku
December 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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arwashington.bsky.social
A #SŌLSËËD Joint 🌻
#PoetryCommunity
“A prompt, a pulse, a purpose
of the soul —to water a seed.

Join #January #NewYear
#Monthly #Prompter #Prompt
Use word or theme to post:
#poetry #art #photography #writing
Please Tag: #Solseed + word
MONTHLY PROMPT #SÕLSËËD | JANUARY #PROMPT JAN 1-5 • NEW YEAR week theme: new-you JAN 5-10 • Aquarius week theme: testimony JAN 10-20 • Astral alignment week theme: new beginnings JAN 20-25 • Principality week theme: self actualization JAN 25-30 ・Glacial week theme: starry-skies MS. AWASHINGTON | @ARWASHINGTON A SOLSEED JOINT
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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pleides.bsky.social
birds in winter
are small experts in hope
each cold day
find what they need, with luck
survive another long night

#tanka #hope #winter ✨
January 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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jennygaitskell.bsky.social
sky shows off
whole new shade of blue
like a dare
I ask what she calls this
but sky says guess

#TankaThursday (blue sky)
#ThingsToWriteAbout (curiousity)
January 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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pippilngstkg.bsky.social
this is beautiful, Athena, and happy new year to you 🎉💕

a small bird sings
perched on a bare branch
its breath—
a small flame in winter's air

snow keeps its distance
the sky leans closer

perhaps nothing is warmed today
still, rustling feathers hold the wind
the song remains 🎶 🕊️
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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ulveheksa.bsky.social
Artist: Anna Silivonchik

These seem somehow a bit Chagall-reminiscent.
Artist: Anna Silivonchik Artist: Anna Silivonchik Artist: Anna Silivonchik Artist: Anna Silivonchik
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Reading on the banks of the Cam. Pastel (not recent, sold a long time ago).
#art #pastel #books #Cambridge #rivercam
A fairly large pastel showing the banks of the River Cam with a couple of students reading. I have mostly used Arboreta acid-free heavy off-white sugar paper for pastels. I bought several large packs of it.
January 2, 2026 at 7:13 AM
mightyathena.bsky.social
#𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗉𝗅𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗁𝖺𝗂𝗀𝖺 𝟣𝟥𝟣 #𝗁𝖺𝗂𝗀𝖺
#𝖽𝖺𝗂𝗅𝗒𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗉𝗋𝗈𝗆𝗉𝗍 #𝖽𝗂𝗉𝟨 #𝗁𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗍
#𝖳𝖺𝗇𝗄𝖺𝖳𝗁𝗎𝗋𝗌𝖽𝖺𝗒 | 𝖻𝗅𝗎𝖾 𝗌𝗄𝗒
#𝗍𝖺𝗇𝗄𝖺 #𝗉𝗈𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗒
#𝗏𝗌𝗌𝖿𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖺𝗌𝗒 #𝖽𝖺𝗐𝗇
A tanka written in response to several prompts and as originally inspired by #dailyimageprompt #dip6 #heart. Taking the original abstract line drawing from #completethehaiga 131, I clumsily formed a very rudimentary heart. Above the heart, black text on white background: cracked and ancient tomes rumoured of a heart’s arch scrawled in deep blue skies alone, I rose at dawn hopeful of new year’s promise ---------------- Prompts: #completethehaiga 131 #haiga #dailyimageprompt #dip6 #heart #TankaThursday | blue sky #tanka #poetry #vssfantasy #dawn
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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tamadhito.bsky.social
#haikufeels idea

life’s unyielding secret–I have no idea
a hand reaching for a star in the sky
ALT: a hand reaching for a star in the sky
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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shinobazupond.bsky.social
Overthinking -
Escher-like ideas
spiraling inwards.

Spiraling inwards -
ideas Escher-like
overthinking.

[repeat]

#haikufeels prompt: idea 💡
#haiku #senryu #linkedverse
January 2, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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asummerghost.bsky.social
The Journey.

🎨 Shawn Brayley
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
mightyathena.bsky.social
#mobilephotography #photography
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#bloomscrolling #flowers
#poetry #amwriting
Two blooms of a soft yellow Dietes Bicolour Iris plant. The background is slightly blurred (still early attempts at bokeh) as using the phone camera's portrait mode. I then used one more small edit of greying out most of the greenery behind the flowers, only a few green stems showing. On the bigger flower to the right: it looks like tiny, fragile wings of a faeries or angels, pirouetting in the centre of the bloom. A free verse poem as inspired by @aetherread.bsky.social post. Black text on white background: floating believing becoming - everything that we are regardless of the mindless raging swirling ‘round - ‘tis nothing to do with us remember, beloved – seraphim dance in the smallest of places - wings, feather-soft, like you and under skies pinpricked by the old gods - take your place in The Universe namaste happy new year 2026 ------------ Original inspiration: Under the starry sky Synergy. Seraphim. Floating on the merciless sea of reality. Beloved. Believed. Becoming the light. 0xE7134974
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ignorantfairy.bsky.social
peace inside a bloom
colours calming troubled mind
nature's ripples soothe

#bloomscrolling #haiku #haikufeels nature #photography #digitalart
#senryu
Triple exposure of orchid blossoms
December 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
mightyathena.bsky.social
fine filaments
of a world offline
- true connection

#DailyHaikuChallenge | thread
#dailyimageprompt #dip3
#haiku
dailyimageprompt.bsky.social dailyimageprompt.bsky.social @dailyimageprompt.bsky.social · 5d
#dailyimageprompt #dip3

to inspire your writing, art or other creativity

enjoy!

image: close-up of a sprouting flat sea-holly
attrib: ~🫂 mike 💖~

#flower
#macro #macrophotography #macromonday
#art #create #inspiration #muse #poetry #prompt #writing #vss​​​
December 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mightyathena.bsky.social
#MusicChallenge
#SoundtrackThis
Day 31 - Party

Flight of the Conchords Ep 3 - 'Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros'

"There ain't no party like my nana's tea party..." 😆

Thanks heaps for the past year's music challenges, @kimberjohnson.bsky.social & @firstnamebob.bsky.social Happy New Year 🎉
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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joegarrity.bsky.social
I captured 20 hours of integration time on the Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebulae. If you look closely at the heart of IC 410, you'll see two small tadpole-like structures.

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #nebula #starcluster #eastcoastkin #photography
December 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM