#vss365 She had a whirlpool of knowledge and unbearable sadness in each eye, moon dust sprinkled in her flaming hair, and a face woven together with spirit thread. Orbiting #Mars, she molded a mini Deimos and Phobos, and aligned them, revealing a shimmering veil of time, and a way home.

Dad doesn't believe in #Mars. "Have you ever seen it with your own eyes?" He's not just asking, he's angry. He spits the words at me as if accusing me of something. Judging me for thinking I know better. At some point facts became feelings, and knowing things became the worst insult of all. #vss365

#DailyHaikuPrompt #bear discarded under the teenager's bed tiny ted

She is the founder of her own misfortune. She gives it air to breathe and feeds it doubts. But she also nurtures hope, takes it for long walks and whispers secrets to it. They walk together and balance along edges. Companions that decided long ago to stay together. #vssdaily founder #vss365 air

garden party the air ripe with the scent of pomposity #vss365 #senryu

wind chimes… and only then the wind #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Laid bare on the floor, still & light as a shadow stirred only by fracturing of air. She moved her hand, the atlas of her fingertips, sticky with something viscous. 'Oscar bravo 3497" crackled, poured into her, humming static, insects whirring & the smell of iron. #vss365 #air #writingprompt

you say later, another day believing this perfect moment can be placed on hold replicated at will I fall back into elements roots, birds, flames, oceans you carve a flute from indifference I conjour a symphony out of thin #air #vss365 #writingprompts

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baroque cheekbones gleam/ gilt smiles stitched too carefully/ time looks away first #DailyHaikuChallenge #prompt baroque

a cornfield maze where to get out, you have to finish writing your novel instead of just posting about it

On bitterest nights, we watch for moonshadows at the forest edge. Lost beasts returning to our island. Once theirs. Darker on darkness. Restless shapes of elk and bear, lynx and wolf. Their calls we hear as blessing or warning. The forest, they say, will rule this island again. #whistpr (moose)

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Dec 26, 2025 Weekend #Prompt - CULMINATE (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine

Zephyr braids salt through warm skin #7syllablesentence #prompt zephyr

long road— I keep a pocket for other people’s storms #haiku #poetry

sunrise a baby's cry echoes around the stable #Christmas

“He knows all about the colour blue, all about its folds and shadows, and He hums Blue Velvet in my ear while Mom hisses through the line you’re married now, goddamit.” Blues by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...

at the banquet’s edge / napkins bloom like red slow wounds / outside, bowls are stars #DailyHaikuChallenge #prompt banquet #haiku

sunbeams out to sea and herring gulls' sudden mirth I find my hagstone #DailyHaikuPrompt #inkMine (mirth)

lavish banquet gleams / plates tower like cold small crowns / mouths forget who starves #DailyHaikuChalkenge banquet #haiku #writingprompt

When in Wonderland The Queen’s Flamingo Ballet Is not to be missed @Bleu_Owl #HaikuChallenge Word: Ballet #TheAliceSeries #IamWriting #AliceInWonderland #YourDailyAliceHaiku #writerscommunity #AliceinWonderlandPoetry

yellow hay a moment of weeks of sunshine #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (hay)

A single maple sweet sap turned slow into flame Winter remembers #dailyhaikuprompt (maple) #writingcommunity #haiku

Nightmares loosen their teeth. I gallop ceiling cracks, hooves of breath. Strength wakes tingling in my wrists, pulling me through sleep’s hedge, where fear forgets my name. #2WordPrompt #prompt Strength glory

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 26-DEC-25 is: Gallop & Strength #Prompt

poaching pears a fruit fly bubbles up— star anise pointing nowhere #star #thingstowriteabout #tanka #haiku Happy holidays to those who celebrate! My poached pears survived, the fly did not. 🍐🌟

Gone are the bright reds, The maple tree now quite bare, Winter soothes with snow. #dailyhaikuprompt maple

winter garden sleeps / hay stitched over tender beds / birds steal the edges #DailyHaikuPrompt #prompt hay garden #Haiku

Preview the January 2026 #horrorprompt and #haikuhorrorprompt line-ups on my Patreon page, and submit your own prompt words on my website now. Patreon: patreon.com/PGPayT Submit Your Prompt Words: wordsfrombehindthemask.com

before winter freeze koi schooling in garden pond soon ice tapestry #ArtAdventCalendar #haiku

rattled by recent events she found solace in the meadow wild hair blowing — softest zephyr laughter erupted, shaking the ground she found herself in love with the wilderness within again #emoetry rattled #poetry #poetrycommunity #freeverse

Message to President Trump from Greenland Tupaarnaq made by a greenlandic woman, which is a EU citizen.

She’s not a straight line. She is a skip and a jump. A splash into puddles, a shuffle through leaves. Footsteps along the tide line, a meander through the woods. She is a soft bend of grass in the meadow. A path through the dew. A gentle pause to watch a snail. #vssdaily straight #vss365 jump

It's a leap of faith, A jump into the unknown, If you'll take my hand. #vss365 #jump #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

Files open Names fracture⬛️ faces broken into planes then swallowed whole by neat black rectangles A mouth here, hand there No body ⬛️ responsibility redaction absence It trains the eye where not to look, how to admire the geometry, subjects remain silently screaming gagged by power #MPPrompt

Cosmic marauder But in a respectful way A humble pirate #ScifaikuSaturday #vss365

Dead flowers still bloom Nothing takes winter away Hydrangeas wear white #dailyhaikuprompt #winter #hydrangea #poetry #haiku #snow

Today’s #poetryprompt: Write a poem with some parts redacted. You heard me. #MPPrompt I repost replies. Follow for daily prompts

darkness bleeding still methodical killing moon peeling human masks #HaikuHorrorPrompt #Haiku

I wake with one butterfly wing instead of an arm. Inconvenient, maybe. Difficult to drive, possibly. But I do get more time with the little ones, and their #gratitude is more than enough. Unravelling her knotted hair, my youngest asks when I'm going to grow the other one. #vss365

I thought I had lost it but here it is warmer it anchors me though she is not here i still feel her

evening washing up / human masks dry on the rack / none of them are mine #HaikuHorrorPrompt #prompt 1609 human masks #Haiku

we wore human masks / until the night asked softly / which ones were lies #HaikuHorrorPrompt #prompt 1609 human masks #Haiku

reminder: Normal is a setting on a dryer.

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Dec 19, 2025 Weekend #Prompt - FREEZE (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine

A widely used #Christmas time special of the European past was to buy and wear a paper crown. A paper crown, #skystorians? Yes, a printed paper crown. And the tiny street seller highlighted in this #earlymodern painting is selling them. Let's have a festive 🧵

In my garden; winter leaves for the Pugliese dish 'Oricchiette con cime di rapa'. In rural Tuscany i have no choice but to identify the vegetables & work out what to do with it. Enforced seasonal local eating is no bad thing.

winter clenched soil/ hydrangea cloaked in frost/ a thought unfinished #DailyHaikuPrompt #prompt winter hydrangea #haiku

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2039: unearthed She found it buried in the backyard. A deep brown suitcase wrapped in chains. Was it to keep someone inside? Or to keep something from getting out? It was easy to carry and left a dark trail of red as it began to writhe. #horrorprompt

A good long list of #poetry published in 2025, put together by @clmporg.bsky.social. I’ve added several to my TBR — including one by contributor Dee Allen! #EpistemicLitFamily #BookList #BookSky www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...