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INK_John
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Stories in ink. Salt in my hair.
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INK_John @intjohn.bsky.social · May 21
He sings to the stars,
hoping one will fall for him,
the sky is unmoved.

#DailyHaikuPrompt
The moon glows behind tall, bare trees at twilight. Its light veiled by soft clouds, casting a dreamy halo in a deepening blue sky.
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aspenbrave.bsky.social
braiding autumn’s wind
November knows it cannot
measure hopelessness
hides under December’s blanket
will we see Spring bloom and ascend

#BraveWrite #vss365 #Poetry
#measure #PoetryCommunity
#tanka #haiku #BlueSkyPoet

Under the weather🍁BBS
Miss & love you,
Aspen🕊️
👇
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Image of Zendaya~in a long white winter dress~wind blowing~lighthouse in distance~Promotion for Movie Per Pinterest
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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redheadsmiles71.bsky.social
Moonlight drips like silver #myth on midnight waves, whispering secrets of forgotten gods.
#vss365
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Pan soared forever young, never aging, never changing.
Yet, as years flew by, he watched from afar as Wendy lived and loved.
Peter's heart ached with a longing he couldn't name. Money meant nothing
The true treasure was time. Time to grow, to love to live. It was a currency he couldn't earn

#Vss365
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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aleesia27.bsky.social
Fall is beginning to fade away. 🍂🥶

#BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #sky #autumn #nature #clouds #fall #trees
A cloud covered mountain surrounded by golden trees, on the Thompson River, in the Interior of British Columbia. The sky is blue and there’s a faint reflection on the water.
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Quint from Jaws. That Indianapolis backstory is a whole novel waiting to happen. His telling of the story is what got me hooked on the craft and he brought those characters to life in just a few lines.

#WritingLifeMonthly #writingcommunity #BookSky
#bookskyclub
#bookish #books #indie #amreading
rosannamcglone.bsky.social Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d
Whilst I don't have an immediate answer, I love this question. 👇
traceyleewrites.bsky.social Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 10📚

Secondary characters have been known to steal the show on occasion. Who would you like to see as the main character in their own novel?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Milton’s Satan. He’s tragic, cunning, and dangerously relatable. Give him a whole novel and you’d get a psychological thriller wrapped in cosmic rebellion.

#WritingLifeMonthly #writingcommunity #BookSky
#bookskyclub
#bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
traceyleewrites.bsky.social Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 10📚

Secondary characters have been known to steal the show on occasion. Who would you like to see as the main character in their own novel?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
November #writinglifemonthly Day 10 Which book character deserves their own spin-off? Tag the author emoji eyes Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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pianoniji.bsky.social
🇫🇷 パリからご挨拶！昨日、ファツィオリのピアノで演奏させていただきました🎹
音色は本当にパワフルで力を入れすぎることなく、多彩な音色を引き出すこと気がしました。
なんて美しい楽器なのでしょう！

🇫🇷 Greetings from Paris! For yesterday’s performance I played a #Fazioli #piano with a powerful sound, and I could elicit many colors with ease. It is a beautiful instrument! 🎹

#ファツィオリ #ピアノ
ファツィオリピアノ: 写真：虹ピアノ@PianoNiji Fazioli piano: Photo by Niji Piano @PianoNiji
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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tregallery.com
✨️🥜🌬🐿🌬🥜✨️

Beyond My Curtain

Gust steals nut
Evening the score
Squirrel breaks wind

#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening
#EastCoastKin
#WildWalkPrompt Curtain

#haiku #俳句 #Freeverse #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Wildlife

Short story in ALT: ⬇️
Here is a shot of Sassy the squirrel, outside my writing window. The momentary pause of insult barking allowed me to take a seemingly serene nature photo. But don’t be fooled; this grey bark licker is giving me the stink eye. It’s a bright day—light through tender leaves frames the scene, and our forest beyond is a lovely blurred backdrop. Sassy is leaning hunched on the poplar limb, all hands and feet gripped tightly to the bark. This side-body-view shows the elegant curl of its fluffy tail, hooked beneath the limb for balance. Sassy’s black almond-shaped eye stares into your soul. Bonus story: Five years ago, I received daily belligerent visits from this fluffer-nutter. Each morning, I’d wake and peacefully start the day with a few paragraphs before breakfast, and Sassy would watch me while barking and doing an interpretive bristle-tailed shuffle along the limb. One blustery day, the south wind snatched a peanut from those teensy hands. The wild-eyed rodent thrashed around afterwards like it was a premeditated assault. Which led to my free verse haiku: Beyond My Curtain Gust steals nut Evening the score Squirrel breaks wind I will say this about Sassy: “That squirrel passionately barked up every tree, and made our world chuckle.” I miss the long walks we’d take together. With one eye peeled for a drop assassination, I strolled as Sassy stalked me with the bare minimum of twig snaps and rustling leaves. When I paused, taking a photo, barking would echo down from above. Our loving rivalry will never be forgotten.
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ellissa.bsky.social
#dailyhaikuprompt #tickle #wildflower #butterfly #haiku #poem #poetry #blueskypoetry

She tickles with her feet
As she sips from his sweetness
Wild butterfly
Light greenish/yellowish butterfly on yellow Rabbitbrush flowers
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
Dig not too deep, nor whisper low,
the chthonic dream beneath your woe.

They do not sleep, but softly dwell,
and hum the hymns of those who fell.

#BlueSkyRelay #chthonic
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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telaranrhiod.bsky.social
Hello #Writers & #Poets!
(Repost with correct date)

Today’s #BlueSkyRelay writing #prompt (Nov 7, 2025):

#Chthonic

Deep below,
where myth and legend sleep,
chthonic realms lie.

#writingprompts #writing #fiction #poetry #BlueSkyWriters #SkyPoets #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
A BlueSkyRelay writing prompt graphic with a gradient background fading from deep rose at the bottom to pale gold at the top. The text reads: “#WritingPrompt #BlueSkyRelay Today is November 8th, today’s word is: #Chthonic Cambridge Dictionary Definition: relating to or living in the underworld.” A small blue butterfly and the hashtag #BlueSkyRelay appear at the bottom.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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arwashington.bsky.social
A Butterfly Flaps its Wings

A butterfly’s life—
between sunrise and sunset
mine in resistance.

#pennedreveries
#betweensunriseandsunset
#haiku #senryu #haiku4u
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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martini8m.bsky.social
#photography #fotografía
#flowers #fujifilm #xt5
#アサギマダラ

Chestnut Tiger
📷 ִֶָ 𓂃.𖥧🦋𓈒𓏸ᵕ̈*
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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dorotapawlak.bsky.social
Rainy day walk.

#ColorADay #YellowThur #EastCoastKin #photography #UrbanGaze #scape #nature #PhotographersOfBlueSky
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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immcarvalho.bsky.social
While the rich and #famous
Exult in their power over all
Trees look on, bemused—
The fools will yield to the grave
While they keep standing tall

(My 📸) #vss365
Twin gold-capped trees rising towards a vibrant blue sky
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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bookish33.bsky.social
Aurora Borealis,
made an appearance tonight ✨
dancing across the sky pt1
#auroraborealis #northernlights
#nightsky
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
intjohn.bsky.social
Door creaks behind you

The moon won’t rise for mercy

Stay off the moors, lad

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#MoonRising #prompt
#werewolves
Under a waning moon, upright wolves linger by a stone wall, half-man, half-memory, caught between prayer and hunger, their shadows whispering what the night no longer forgives. Maurice Sand created a lithograph called "Werewolves" around 1858. It depicts a procession of wolves standing on their hind legs against a stone wall under a crescent moon.
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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martini8m.bsky.social
#photography #fotografía
#flowers #fujifilm #xt5
#アサギマダラ

📷 ִֶָ 𓂃.𖥧🦋𓈒𓏸ᵕ̈*
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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oevermann.bsky.social
Vote

they’ll count your silence
too — but only as consent
to what you did not stop

#haikufeels #haiku
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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drdeepakdev.bsky.social
REFERENDUM —the decision made in silence

I #vote for my peace
even if it costs my past—
some echoes must fade

#haikufeels #senryu
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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tamisar.bsky.social
eVict all thOse who
are Taking away frEedoms:
they’d take this one, too!

Vote as if your lives
depend upon it: they Do!
My💙Heart is with you 🙏
-tam💞🥹
#vote #haikufeels #haiku #TheResistance #poetry
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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hermiteveryday.bsky.social
I voted for peace,
Took the tiny pencil home,
Wrote a small poem.

#haikufeels vote
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
intjohn.bsky.social
The sky keeps no throne
Stars scatter their ancient fire
Each heart lights its own

#HaikuFeels #Vote
#prompt
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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youngliz.bsky.social
#vss365 #prompt #Nov3rd

Morning all!
When I went to infant school, we had free milk at playtime & after-lunch naps on tiny camp beds. How things have changed for my grandchildren! Now even 5 year-olds use computers.
Today's word from my xword book index is #education.
a young boy is standing on a chair in a classroom .
ALT: a young boy is standing on a chair in a classroom .
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November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM