Rachel
@vignettes.bsky.social
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. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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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“My work explores the intersections between people, place, and justice, the silent struggles of the world, and the resilience of its landscapes and inhabitants.” (UK/Italy) This is Rach…
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Writing Haiku has become a healthy addiction. This is my second, accepted for for the Encircling challenge published by Pure Haiku.
Thanks to @freyapickard.bsky.social for all your work✨
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#haiku #writing #writingsubmissions
Thanks to @freyapickard.bsky.social for all your work✨
purehaiku.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/3...
#haiku #writing #writingsubmissions
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February 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Today's #poetryprompt:
Let's play poetry telephone! Take one of the other comments to this post and change it slightly. You can add lines, change words, delete things. Lets see where we start and end
I'll kick us off below, but feel free to start your own
#MPPrompt
Follow for daily prompts
Let's play poetry telephone! Take one of the other comments to this post and change it slightly. You can add lines, change words, delete things. Lets see where we start and end
I'll kick us off below, but feel free to start your own
#MPPrompt
Follow for daily prompts
February 10, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Today's #poetryprompt:
Let's play poetry telephone! Take one of the other comments to this post and change it slightly. You can add lines, change words, delete things. Lets see where we start and end
I'll kick us off below, but feel free to start your own
#MPPrompt
Follow for daily prompts
Let's play poetry telephone! Take one of the other comments to this post and change it slightly. You can add lines, change words, delete things. Lets see where we start and end
I'll kick us off below, but feel free to start your own
#MPPrompt
Follow for daily prompts
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Pat is a retired librarian who has found blogging an easy way to share her writing. (United States) This is Pat's first appearance at Pure Haiku! This haiku is part of our Encircling Theme.
Pat is a retired librarian who has found blogging an easy way to share her writing. (United States) This is Pat's first appearance at Pure Haiku! This haiku is part of our Encircling Theme.
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Pat is a retired librarian who has found blogging an easy way to share her writing. (United States) This is Pat's first appearance at Pure Haiku! This haiku is part of our Encircling Theme.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Pat is a retired librarian who has found blogging an easy way to share her writing. (United States) This is Pat's first appearance at Pure Haiku! This haiku is part of our Encircling Theme.
Pat is a retired librarian who has found blogging an easy way to share her writing. (United States) This is Pat's first appearance at Pure Haiku! This haiku is part of our Encircling Theme.
February 10, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 7:16 AM
On Saturday I shared an order of Feminello lemons from a grower in Sicily. Five of us preserved lemons in jars, made lemon and honey marmalade and fried lemon rice cakes for carnival week which starts this weekend before lent. Sharing yellow with you, hoping for Spring.
#haibun #prose #poetry
#haibun #prose #poetry
February 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM
I'm going to Liguria with friends for a long weekend. A little research tells me we're staying in the gulf of spezia nicknamed Bay of Poets....the name stems from the inspiration that the area has had on poets Lawrence, Shelley, Bryon. Well I did not know that!
February 10, 2026 at 8:01 AM
I'm going to Liguria with friends for a long weekend. A little research tells me we're staying in the gulf of spezia nicknamed Bay of Poets....the name stems from the inspiration that the area has had on poets Lawrence, Shelley, Bryon. Well I did not know that!
I remember making mix tapes for seaside road trips with friends.
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 AM
I remember making mix tapes for seaside road trips with friends.
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I couldn't shake the crow caw
Of blood streaming from the dead
So timeless that human suffering
Was dismissed with the indifference
Of winter’s bite
A second caw saying, “You made me death”
Wiping clean the ink of a million pens
A third, just a sound in the woods
Sharp and alarming
But nothing more
Of blood streaming from the dead
So timeless that human suffering
Was dismissed with the indifference
Of winter’s bite
A second caw saying, “You made me death”
Wiping clean the ink of a million pens
A third, just a sound in the woods
Sharp and alarming
But nothing more
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I couldn't shake the crow caw
Of blood streaming from the dead
So timeless that human suffering
Was dismissed with the indifference
Of winter’s bite
A second caw saying, “You made me death”
Wiping clean the ink of a million pens
A third, just a sound in the woods
Sharp and alarming
But nothing more
Of blood streaming from the dead
So timeless that human suffering
Was dismissed with the indifference
Of winter’s bite
A second caw saying, “You made me death”
Wiping clean the ink of a million pens
A third, just a sound in the woods
Sharp and alarming
But nothing more
low tide
a sideways thought
for #completethehaiga prompt 137. Art by Josiah
#haiga #micropoetry #poetry
a sideways thought
for #completethehaiga prompt 137. Art by Josiah
#haiga #micropoetry #poetry
February 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
low tide
a sideways thought
for #completethehaiga prompt 137. Art by Josiah
#haiga #micropoetry #poetry
a sideways thought
for #completethehaiga prompt 137. Art by Josiah
#haiga #micropoetry #poetry
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For #PromptCombo this week, it's #ecstasy. Use the hastags & tag me to get involved. ❤️
This video of me reading my poem "My Man" is from a series of poetry videos Julie & I did during Covid.
@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social
This video of me reading my poem "My Man" is from a series of poetry videos Julie & I did during Covid.
@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
For #PromptCombo this week, it's #ecstasy. Use the hastags & tag me to get involved. ❤️
This video of me reading my poem "My Man" is from a series of poetry videos Julie & I did during Covid.
@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social
This video of me reading my poem "My Man" is from a series of poetry videos Julie & I did during Covid.
@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social
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New #FaeSense prompt is up:
From 8th-15th February we listen to
#theSoundOfGrassGrowing
More info in alt-text
All sorts of art are welcome (drawing/photography/poetry...)
No AI and please use alt-text for images.
Enjoy creating!
@danigracewrites.bsky.social
@thescribblings.com
From 8th-15th February we listen to
#theSoundOfGrassGrowing
More info in alt-text
All sorts of art are welcome (drawing/photography/poetry...)
No AI and please use alt-text for images.
Enjoy creating!
@danigracewrites.bsky.social
@thescribblings.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 AM
New #FaeSense prompt is up:
From 8th-15th February we listen to
#theSoundOfGrassGrowing
More info in alt-text
All sorts of art are welcome (drawing/photography/poetry...)
No AI and please use alt-text for images.
Enjoy creating!
@danigracewrites.bsky.social
@thescribblings.com
From 8th-15th February we listen to
#theSoundOfGrassGrowing
More info in alt-text
All sorts of art are welcome (drawing/photography/poetry...)
No AI and please use alt-text for images.
Enjoy creating!
@danigracewrites.bsky.social
@thescribblings.com
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Do not sell the red bike.
Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
#mpprompt #poetry #prompt #poetryprompt #writing
Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
#mpprompt #poetry #prompt #poetryprompt #writing
Today's #poetryprompt:
You opened up a box you found buried in the back yard, and it contained this poem.
#MPPrompt
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Follow for daily prompts
You opened up a box you found buried in the back yard, and it contained this poem.
#MPPrompt
I repost replies.
Follow for daily prompts
February 8, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Do not sell the red bike.
Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
#mpprompt #poetry #prompt #poetryprompt #writing
Fix the chain.
You know how.
Eat slower.
Look at birds
even the boring ones.
#mpprompt #poetry #prompt #poetryprompt #writing
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February 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Sunday morning 'walk'. Barely exercise as I keep photographing green.
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Sunday morning 'walk'. Barely exercise as I keep photographing green.
Flurry of lichen —
the woodpecker’s tapping
ripples the green hush
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt flurry
#haiku #gendai
the woodpecker’s tapping
ripples the green hush
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt flurry
#haiku #gendai
February 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Flurry of lichen —
the woodpecker’s tapping
ripples the green hush
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt flurry
#haiku #gendai
the woodpecker’s tapping
ripples the green hush
#DailyHaikuPrompt
#prompt flurry
#haiku #gendai
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
#TBRuary Day 7: Life Stages
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen is in by TBR. It's about the end of life, an 89 year old man living in rural Sweden. It's about aging, the loss of autonomy & a fight for dignity.
#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen is in by TBR. It's about the end of life, an 89 year old man living in rural Sweden. It's about aging, the loss of autonomy & a fight for dignity.
#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
#TBRuary Day 7: Life Stages
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen is in by TBR. It's about the end of life, an 89 year old man living in rural Sweden. It's about aging, the loss of autonomy & a fight for dignity.
#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen is in by TBR. It's about the end of life, an 89 year old man living in rural Sweden. It's about aging, the loss of autonomy & a fight for dignity.
#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
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February 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Thankyou for those who follow my hodgepodge of prompts! Todays February 7th prompt is #window #thingstowriteabout
February 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Thankyou for those who follow my hodgepodge of prompts! Todays February 7th prompt is #window #thingstowriteabout
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Most days she kept her power hidden, magma beneath the surface, but she was weary and hungry. When she saw him, it was time to feed. She walked towards him, hips swaying like a #demon bell, a hiss of steam left by her damp feet, a whisper of devil's grass along his skin.
#SatSplat
#SatSplat
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 AM