Nina Nazir
@ninanazir.bsky.social
Poet, writer, artist, blogger. Bibliophile. Activist. Tree hugger. Caffeine connoisseur. Neurodivergent. Creative af. Room 204 Writer with Writing West Midlands. www.sunrarainz.wordpress.com / ninasnazir.substack.com
I love this image! I'm currently reading last year's spring edition of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and this is the cover...🪲
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I love this image! I'm currently reading last year's spring edition of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and this is the cover...🪲
In reality
all I want is to read books,
take naps and drink tea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reality #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
all I want is to read books,
take naps and drink tea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reality #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In reality
all I want is to read books,
take naps and drink tea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reality #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
all I want is to read books,
take naps and drink tea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reality #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Writers:
truth tellers
myth makers
lifesavers
world builders
history preservers
hermits
travellers and
voices for the voiceless.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #myth #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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truth tellers
myth makers
lifesavers
world builders
history preservers
hermits
travellers and
voices for the voiceless.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #myth #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Writers:
truth tellers
myth makers
lifesavers
world builders
history preservers
hermits
travellers and
voices for the voiceless.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #myth #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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truth tellers
myth makers
lifesavers
world builders
history preservers
hermits
travellers and
voices for the voiceless.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #myth #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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Oh, literature!
What would I do without you
to while away the hours
every rainy day
that asks me to?
#vss365 #poetryprompt #literature #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #bibliophile
Currently reading👇🏽 Whose pages are you lost in at the moment? Feel free to share below 🙂
What would I do without you
to while away the hours
every rainy day
that asks me to?
#vss365 #poetryprompt #literature #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #bibliophile
Currently reading👇🏽 Whose pages are you lost in at the moment? Feel free to share below 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Oh, literature!
What would I do without you
to while away the hours
every rainy day
that asks me to?
#vss365 #poetryprompt #literature #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #bibliophile
Currently reading👇🏽 Whose pages are you lost in at the moment? Feel free to share below 🙂
What would I do without you
to while away the hours
every rainy day
that asks me to?
#vss365 #poetryprompt #literature #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #bibliophile
Currently reading👇🏽 Whose pages are you lost in at the moment? Feel free to share below 🙂
I love how the web
oversteps geography
spanning oceans
to connect us
so we all get to watch
Mamdani win
and rejoice
🎊❤️ 😄
#vss365 #poetryprompt #geography #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
oversteps geography
spanning oceans
to connect us
so we all get to watch
Mamdani win
and rejoice
🎊❤️ 😄
#vss365 #poetryprompt #geography #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I love how the web
oversteps geography
spanning oceans
to connect us
so we all get to watch
Mamdani win
and rejoice
🎊❤️ 😄
#vss365 #poetryprompt #geography #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
oversteps geography
spanning oceans
to connect us
so we all get to watch
Mamdani win
and rejoice
🎊❤️ 😄
#vss365 #poetryprompt #geography #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Happy Dia de los Muertos 🧡🌼🌺🍁
This was my response to day 28 of the Inktober drawing challenge: Skeletal 💀
Wishing you a blessed day 🌟
Acrylic, watercolour, food colouring and various pens on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
This was my response to day 28 of the Inktober drawing challenge: Skeletal 💀
Wishing you a blessed day 🌟
Acrylic, watercolour, food colouring and various pens on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy Dia de los Muertos 🧡🌼🌺🍁
This was my response to day 28 of the Inktober drawing challenge: Skeletal 💀
Wishing you a blessed day 🌟
Acrylic, watercolour, food colouring and various pens on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
This was my response to day 28 of the Inktober drawing challenge: Skeletal 💀
Wishing you a blessed day 🌟
Acrylic, watercolour, food colouring and various pens on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
As daylight creeps away
dusk falls all too soon.
I hunker down
in my favourite chair
with hot drink
and a blanket's hug
reading late into the night,
my only company
the whispering house.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #creep #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumnpoems
dusk falls all too soon.
I hunker down
in my favourite chair
with hot drink
and a blanket's hug
reading late into the night,
my only company
the whispering house.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #creep #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumnpoems
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
As daylight creeps away
dusk falls all too soon.
I hunker down
in my favourite chair
with hot drink
and a blanket's hug
reading late into the night,
my only company
the whispering house.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #creep #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumnpoems
dusk falls all too soon.
I hunker down
in my favourite chair
with hot drink
and a blanket's hug
reading late into the night,
my only company
the whispering house.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #creep #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumnpoems
On the day of the dead,
la dia de los muertos,
the great unseen
will show themselves,
vivid and particular,
if you trust
that you can see.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #unseen #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumndays
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la dia de los muertos,
the great unseen
will show themselves,
vivid and particular,
if you trust
that you can see.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #unseen #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumndays
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October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On the day of the dead,
la dia de los muertos,
the great unseen
will show themselves,
vivid and particular,
if you trust
that you can see.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #unseen #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumndays
(Image from i-stock)
la dia de los muertos,
the great unseen
will show themselves,
vivid and particular,
if you trust
that you can see.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #unseen #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumndays
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I place my cup
face down on the saucer
and pause before
I take its round warmth
and peer in
to read the leaves
of the future.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #saucer #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
face down on the saucer
and pause before
I take its round warmth
and peer in
to read the leaves
of the future.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #saucer #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I place my cup
face down on the saucer
and pause before
I take its round warmth
and peer in
to read the leaves
of the future.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #saucer #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
face down on the saucer
and pause before
I take its round warmth
and peer in
to read the leaves
of the future.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #saucer #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
You, divine spark,
became fire,
became ash,
roared again,
ablaze,
made kindling
of darknesses
that tried
to steal your light -
but never could.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #ash #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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became fire,
became ash,
roared again,
ablaze,
made kindling
of darknesses
that tried
to steal your light -
but never could.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #ash #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(image from StockCake)
October 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You, divine spark,
became fire,
became ash,
roared again,
ablaze,
made kindling
of darknesses
that tried
to steal your light -
but never could.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #ash #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(image from StockCake)
became fire,
became ash,
roared again,
ablaze,
made kindling
of darknesses
that tried
to steal your light -
but never could.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #ash #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(image from StockCake)
Tis the pulp of life
the world within these books, my
lifeline to dream worlds.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pulp #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
the world within these books, my
lifeline to dream worlds.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pulp #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tis the pulp of life
the world within these books, my
lifeline to dream worlds.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pulp #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
the world within these books, my
lifeline to dream worlds.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pulp #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Autumn equinox
sets me on my course, uplifts
reinvigorates.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reinvigorate #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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sets me on my course, uplifts
reinvigorates.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reinvigorate #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Autumn equinox
sets me on my course, uplifts
reinvigorates.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reinvigorate #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Image credit: Getty images)
sets me on my course, uplifts
reinvigorates.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #reinvigorate #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Image credit: Getty images)
No, I shall not
weed the garden.
I conspire with nature
to have her way.
Come, bees, thrive.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #conspire #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Photo © N Nazir)
weed the garden.
I conspire with nature
to have her way.
Come, bees, thrive.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #conspire #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Photo © N Nazir)
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
No, I shall not
weed the garden.
I conspire with nature
to have her way.
Come, bees, thrive.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #conspire #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Photo © N Nazir)
weed the garden.
I conspire with nature
to have her way.
Come, bees, thrive.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #conspire #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Photo © N Nazir)
Let's do this poet-style
trench coat
umbrella
favourite café
coffee
notebook, pen
now -
we can begin.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #style #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Artwork - my own, acrylic & gel pen on paper, 2023, © N Nazir)
trench coat
umbrella
favourite café
coffee
notebook, pen
now -
we can begin.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #style #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Artwork - my own, acrylic & gel pen on paper, 2023, © N Nazir)
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Let's do this poet-style
trench coat
umbrella
favourite café
coffee
notebook, pen
now -
we can begin.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #style #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Artwork - my own, acrylic & gel pen on paper, 2023, © N Nazir)
trench coat
umbrella
favourite café
coffee
notebook, pen
now -
we can begin.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #style #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Artwork - my own, acrylic & gel pen on paper, 2023, © N Nazir)
Through the doorway of dreams
my soul runs free
swift and true
toward the sea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #doorway #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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my soul runs free
swift and true
toward the sea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #doorway #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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September 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Through the doorway of dreams
my soul runs free
swift and true
toward the sea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #doorway #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Image from Pixabay)
my soul runs free
swift and true
toward the sea.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #doorway #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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Answers
elude me
but healing
is messy, so
I shall not fret.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #elude #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
elude me
but healing
is messy, so
I shall not fret.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #elude #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
September 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Answers
elude me
but healing
is messy, so
I shall not fret.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #elude #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
elude me
but healing
is messy, so
I shall not fret.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #elude #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
I yearn for
planetary healing,
to face the future
without an ever-rising panic
that our course downhill
is irreversible.
Maybe it is
but please -
let it not be so.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #yearn #climatejustice #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
planetary healing,
to face the future
without an ever-rising panic
that our course downhill
is irreversible.
Maybe it is
but please -
let it not be so.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #yearn #climatejustice #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
August 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I yearn for
planetary healing,
to face the future
without an ever-rising panic
that our course downhill
is irreversible.
Maybe it is
but please -
let it not be so.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #yearn #climatejustice #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
planetary healing,
to face the future
without an ever-rising panic
that our course downhill
is irreversible.
Maybe it is
but please -
let it not be so.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #yearn #climatejustice #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
We are constellations
of a greater web,
our thoughts a current
and a whispering,
like countless
beams of light.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #constellation #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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of a greater web,
our thoughts a current
and a whispering,
like countless
beams of light.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #constellation #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Shutterstock image)
August 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are constellations
of a greater web,
our thoughts a current
and a whispering,
like countless
beams of light.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #constellation #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
(Shutterstock image)
of a greater web,
our thoughts a current
and a whispering,
like countless
beams of light.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #constellation #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
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Sir, put down your ray gun
there is no concern
for such defense.
Clearly,
you are unbalanced.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #erasurepoems #dailyhaikuprompt #offprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
I'm going to call this piece: F**k ICE.
gel pen on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
there is no concern
for such defense.
Clearly,
you are unbalanced.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #erasurepoems #dailyhaikuprompt #offprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
I'm going to call this piece: F**k ICE.
gel pen on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
August 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sir, put down your ray gun
there is no concern
for such defense.
Clearly,
you are unbalanced.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #erasurepoems #dailyhaikuprompt #offprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
I'm going to call this piece: F**k ICE.
gel pen on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
there is no concern
for such defense.
Clearly,
you are unbalanced.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #erasurepoems #dailyhaikuprompt #offprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
I'm going to call this piece: F**k ICE.
gel pen on paper
Sketchbooks 2025
© N Nazir
I'm so pleased to have a piece published with One Sentence Poems👇🏽 @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social 🌟
You can read the whole wonderful issue here...
www.onesentencepoems.com/august-2025
#vss365 #onesentencepoems #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
You can read the whole wonderful issue here...
www.onesentencepoems.com/august-2025
#vss365 #onesentencepoems #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
August 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'm so pleased to have a piece published with One Sentence Poems👇🏽 @ambidextrouslit.bsky.social 🌟
You can read the whole wonderful issue here...
www.onesentencepoems.com/august-2025
#vss365 #onesentencepoems #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
You can read the whole wonderful issue here...
www.onesentencepoems.com/august-2025
#vss365 #onesentencepoems #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
To be pummelled
by the storms of life
in all its injustice
and wild colour -
and to keep going -
that, my friend,
is your assignment.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pummel #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
by the storms of life
in all its injustice
and wild colour -
and to keep going -
that, my friend,
is your assignment.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pummel #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
August 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
To be pummelled
by the storms of life
in all its injustice
and wild colour -
and to keep going -
that, my friend,
is your assignment.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pummel #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
by the storms of life
in all its injustice
and wild colour -
and to keep going -
that, my friend,
is your assignment.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #pummel #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
It's mating season
for spiders, so you may as
well leave them to it.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #spider #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own: acrylic & gel pen on paper, sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir (for Inktober challenge 2023)
for spiders, so you may as
well leave them to it.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #spider #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own: acrylic & gel pen on paper, sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir (for Inktober challenge 2023)
August 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's mating season
for spiders, so you may as
well leave them to it.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #spider #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own: acrylic & gel pen on paper, sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir (for Inktober challenge 2023)
for spiders, so you may as
well leave them to it.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #spider #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own: acrylic & gel pen on paper, sketchbooks 2023, © N Nazir (for Inktober challenge 2023)
Funny how
one's healthy sense of sass
will be wilfully misread
by someone who doesn't like
your type of different.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #sass #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own, collage & overdrawing, Sketchbooks 2025
one's healthy sense of sass
will be wilfully misread
by someone who doesn't like
your type of different.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #sass #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own, collage & overdrawing, Sketchbooks 2025
August 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Funny how
one's healthy sense of sass
will be wilfully misread
by someone who doesn't like
your type of different.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #sass #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own, collage & overdrawing, Sketchbooks 2025
one's healthy sense of sass
will be wilfully misread
by someone who doesn't like
your type of different.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #sass #dailyhaikuprompt #truth #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
Artwork my own, collage & overdrawing, Sketchbooks 2025
At charm school
they teach you
how to throw
a glamour or two.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #charm #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
That's me throwing a glamour👇🏽
Not really, it's a cool painting I found on Pinterest (artist unknown).
they teach you
how to throw
a glamour or two.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #charm #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
That's me throwing a glamour👇🏽
Not really, it's a cool painting I found on Pinterest (artist unknown).
August 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
At charm school
they teach you
how to throw
a glamour or two.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #charm #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
That's me throwing a glamour👇🏽
Not really, it's a cool painting I found on Pinterest (artist unknown).
they teach you
how to throw
a glamour or two.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #charm #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
That's me throwing a glamour👇🏽
Not really, it's a cool painting I found on Pinterest (artist unknown).
I scowl at the moon
whose half-face
has turned away
from me
as it whispers
into the void.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #scowl #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
whose half-face
has turned away
from me
as it whispers
into the void.
#vss365 #poetryprompt #scowl #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem
August 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I scowl at the moon
whose half-face
has turned away
from me
as it whispers
into the void.
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whose half-face
has turned away
from me
as it whispers
into the void.
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