You are still here. Your hope not yet extinct even though shadows loom. You are a jar of last summers jam left in the pantry. Treasure from a warm day when your fingers were strawberry pink, bare feet in mint green grass. The clouds telling stories across the blue. #vssdaily extinct #vss365 loom

Kosode Early 18th Century Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

#Pharaoh’s tomb is the biggest ancient #Egyptian discovery since King #Tutankhamun. #Thutmose II didn’t rule for long, but the find marks a major moment for Egyptology. Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/science/thut...

Cold remembers Our first fires, Alive with embers, Long burning desires. #AcrosticJanuary #Coal #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

This engraved Romano-Egyptian magical gem (green jasper) depicts the Egyptian god and psychopomp Anubis holding an ointment jar and standing over a lion-shaped bier. The mummified body of Osiris lies on top. 💀🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 100-125 CE. #GettyVilla 📸 me

A sunny march morning nine ladies peak district #Standingstonesunday

Stone and lichen guardians of Machrie Moor, Arran, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

Neu Gaarz Dolmen: A well preserved dolmen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with NW-SE orientation, the chamber is set with two uprights on the long sides and one stone on the NW side. On the chamber capstones, there are some cup marks visible. 📷 weldersdog- More:

''All tragedy erased. I see only wonders…'' Blue Lake 2hrs speedpaint #hollowknight #art

Sasuke Inari Shrine in Kamakura, Japan. The small statues visible in the image are not rabbits, but rather foxes (kitsune), which are considered the messengers of Inari, the Shinto deity of fertility and prosperity.

like a fragile flame oxygen intoxicates the seconds in me #senryu #haiku #moments #vss365 #flame #seconds #oxygen

Summer flowers, oil on board, cone flowers, poppies, nasturtiums and other flowers in two glass containers (sold) #art #botanical #oilpainting

9 Jan– #Agonalia in honour of Janus #Roman god of beginnings, transitions & endings - with two faces looking to past & future. An ancient festival, its meaning was already unclear in antiquity, but still carefully observed. A ram was sacrificed by the Rex Sacrorum at the Regia in the Forum Romanum.

Just making sure everything is safe. 🐾

Mouse pauses in the Moonlit field, a whoosh of wings, Death in silhouette. #BSPP49 #MoonlitField #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

With the river crossed Lightly on the underside Of belief, a love less likely Tightly keeps the strings Tied yet divided, broken Amidst this connection Twisting into a Symphony with no Direction, only noise Without relief #Cassiopeian #connect #vss365 #symphony #poetry #writingcommunity

shattered crystal bowl containing nothing but light shards gleam at midnight #haiku #senryu #poetry

Judith Godwin, Woman, 1954, US Abstract Expressionist painter #WomensArt

Pastel shades, Acrylic pops, Inky parades, Nuanced slop, Timeless faces, Iconic places, Notable pieces, Garish friezes. #AcrosticJanuary #Painting #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

For whom was this place Built? Narrow passages, ten Feet tall, glowing walls. #2WordPrompt #Narrow/Whom #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social

UK ceramic artist Marie Prett specialises in figurative and carnivalesque sculptures #WomensArt

Her voice echos off of nothing. Words fall like glass weights from her tongue, shattering. Vacant, vacant— her eyes, her tired steps. Holding the sum of foolish things.

Frost Seldom snow But Always Frozen That was Her heart Its world Her hope But beneath her feet Crunched Magic And Sparkle To some A landscape Frigid and bleak Yet To her It was Her soul's dream

This is the @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social lake, a watercolour drawing done on location 2017. As I can't travel far to sketching locations now I hope to do more drawings there when warmer weather arrives (it's a short walk away!) #watercolour #indianink #enpleinair

Leptis or Lepcis Magna was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya. Established as a Punic settlement prior to 500 BC, the city experienced significant expansion under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193–211), who was born in the city. #RomanSiteSaturday

days unravel like a bobbin of twine through this long dark labyrinth of our earthly time and the Cardinal sin that we dare not admit is believing we chose every step of the way when we just stumbled along, from day to day #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

across the graveyard a lone magpie picks Insects from epitaphs

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"Along The Street" - my oil painting, 12"x16"

Life dragged me under Then you grabbed my hand, and we danced in the waves #haikufeels #under #haiku #senryu

Each time, the found world surprises - that is its nature. Jane Hirshfield

Spellbound, as he spoke In augury prose, omens of Fell literature. #vss365 #augury #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

moon maiden strolling the dark side of her garden Luna's second face always veiled in shadow silver silence's night bloom #poetry #retroartprompt #poetrcommunity #tanka

Time’s Tattoo Remarkable footsteps, A futile, charming chase To fix time's fleeting grace. Photos are time’s tattoo, So dearly, sorely gained Where memory is chained. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #Photography #bluesky #blueskypoetry #art #blueskyart

cardinal wind - eyes welling up at sun down #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (cardinal)

Memory's ribbon curl, wrapping round the present Door to Christmas past. #BSPP48 #RibbonCurl #haiku #senryu

December bruises / cherries rise in my mouth’s dream / winter tastes of want #DailyHaikuPrompt #prompt cherries December #haiku

These days are so long Restless nights and wild dreams Voices sense of home #senryu

Final Cut Excise notes, the past is clean. All marks are now unseen. The revision complete. The judging is complete, With history made neat, The shaping complete. #poem #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #bluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskyart #art

shaved ice in moonlight / gnawed edges of the woodpile / something feeds #DailyHaikuPrompt #prompt shaved ice #haiku

In the dark spaces of every day there is your light shining on me. #pennedreveries #everyday #haiku #senryu

Some 1,900 years ago a child was buried with an array of terracotta figurines in the #Roman town of Arae Flaviae, #Rottweil: 2 pigeons, 2 dogs, 2 roosters, a chicken, a duck, and a female figure, commonly identified as Iuventas, the personification of youth. Rather than....🧵1/2 🏺 📷 me

Cat upon the sill Unhappy with winters chill, Blames it on the dog. --- O.Ottewell #haiku #poetry #cats #dogs

Madness- An artists wild strokes weaving onto fabric last nights fever dream. ---O.Ottewell #poems #poetry

In the maple's blush A soft wind stirs the leaves, Winter's breath is here. --- O.Ottewell #poetry #poems #haiku #winterpoetry

Time creeping, slipping through cracks in the mirror- The Fates step aside. ---O.Ottewell #haiku #poem #poetry

Birds twitter away As I walk through the garden- All that bloomed is dead. ---- O.Ottewell #poetry #haiku #poems #winterpoem

Pair of vases, Made by Kawade Shibataro, Early 1900s. Copper alloy, silver, enamel; carved wood (stand). Height: 31.3cm © 1998 - 2016 The State Hermitage Museum.

these eyes, wells of gravity light capturing devices these hues, reflective thoughts rising beneath the spaces in-between an ever-breaking day #poetry #slingingpaint #creative