Can't believe I got through to the final showdown for @writingbattle.bsky.social's Summer Nanofiction Battle! So exciting! #writing #creativewriting #nanofiction #fiction

"I want the world to be simple," I said to the genie.

"How do you mean?"

"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."

"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."

And then he turned me back into a child.

Clouds blush the evening
Frail warmth suffused by the day
The stars drink deeply

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Damn, it's been a while. Got tangled in life.

#pinks #nature #dailyhaikuprompt #writingcommunity #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #blueskypoets

Sudden break of calm
Guarded jealously by bark
Under fleeting sky

#glade #nature #dailyhaikuprompt #writingcommunity #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #blueskypoets

Past windows and doors
Ghosts whisper their memories
Wisps brushing the now

(Missed yesterday's prompt, d'oh!)
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Leaves catching dawn's sun
Birdsong weaves peaceful ribbons
The forest breathes deep

#trees #nature #dailyhaikuprompt #writingcommunity #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #blueskypoets

Waves collapse to sand
Deep treasures made silent gifts
Whispers sidle home

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Light frozen in place
Spears impaling sky to earth
Claimed by darkened cloud

#lightning #nature #dailyhaikuprompt #writingcommunity #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #blueskypoets

Night's lamp-yellow glow
Sung alone from quiet dark
Serenading dawn

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Bark cracks and echoes
Snow under foot creaks in kind
Silence tracks their marks

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Proud to say my microfiction piece "A Kindness" has been published by Fairfield Scribes! Check it out and the amazing stories that others have crafted at www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-47.html/ #microfiction #writing #creativewriting

Clouds dark with longing
A thousand kisses returned
The earth remembers

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Ribbons of colour
Thread between dancing waters
A flash of scales speared

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Astralis #poetry #poems #poem #writing

Absent Hands #poetry #poems #writing