The bellwether's milk eye wept a greasy tear. The farmer staggered by, weighted by buckled language and crow-cloud. The moor held its breath through bog-sweat pores. Beneath a graze of heather, an ache with antlers sharpened its teeth on flint. On it went. Still. On it goes. #vss365 #bellwether

Small press books are such a joy—Animal Heart Press, Loblolly Press, Belle Point Press here! 📚💙 “formed by the grit / of the heart” indeed. I cannot say how important it is to support small presses right now directly. Many have alternative distribution models; they are the life of literature.

#短歌 #tanka the short letter she scribbled saying goodbye I enter it in a tanka contest

soup season (2021)

Not much new artwork this month, but here's an older sketch for the first day of autumn. 🍂🐇

Damien & issue co-editor @rhonagreene.bsky.social, are bright lights, who bring beauty to the world w/their talent, their own works, & their generous, genuine support, lifting other artists. It's an honour and a thrill to have a #poem included! #poetry #prose #art #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon Sept 22, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - TORN CONCERN ASCEND IMMENSE AUTUMNAL CONCEPT post with hashtag: #inkMine

I remember your #berry stained lips As you handed me some too The innocence of you The innocence of me A #kindness true When our legs Were little And smiles Bigger A little Too Long Ago #emoetry #whistpr #poetrylovers

elderberries still young enough to dream of fairyland #whistpr

goosebumps chill breezes kiss summer goodbye #DailyHaikuPrompt (chilly)

are there any other songs that simultaneously sum up the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, AND maybe the early 2000s as much as this one? is this *the* revolutionary battlesong to rally antifa around?!? deee-lite GROOVE IS IN THE HEART youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg?...

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 22, 2025: #BERRY #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Writing Prompts, 21 Sept 2025 Creative writing prompts for the week. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts ko-fi.com/i/IF1F61LG5GX

these sf/f/h journals have reopened to submissions in the past few days: - A Cup of Owls - Quarterly Online Anthology - Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror - Hearth Stories - Polar Borealis (for poetry) - Polar Starlight - Silver Blade Magazine - SpecPoVerse - Three-Lobed Burning Eye

Oh to be a little bat reading your book by the light of the moon 🌙🦇 #kidlitart #illustration #cuteart #bats

#3095 Apple frog! (There's no good way to combine those 2 words)

Here's a whimsical black and white warbler based on a lovely photo by @gettoknownature.bsky.social (see comment) Such a striking little bird! #art 🪶

Long-tailed tits #birds #titmouse #EastCoastKin #onlybeautifulthings #ArtShow #ColorADay #BlueSkyArtShow #art #illustration #painting #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #artcommunity #ArtYear

Artists! Quote with your night art! #kidlitart #invertebrate

leaning into equinox

lichen on the roof all the colours of our lives that nobody sees

twilight sky all the stars I still can’t see fill me with light #SenryuSunday #senryu #haikul

midnight canyon- my howl splits into seven wolves #haiku #poetry #wolves #wolftwin

Dizziness Hits upon standing Like a drug

Seagazing, I wonder. These sparkles must be telling secrets. Nah, Beach Crow says. The sea whispers her lickle myths into shells. All about moons & stars & comets. But that's how most water began. As comet ice flying through space. Cor, says Beach Crow. That's why she's full of sky. #whistpr

cloud shadows you frown when you think I won't see #DailyHaikuPrompt (sombre)

cooling skies — the clouds gather their wool knitting scarves of rain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 21, 2025: #COMET #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Fourteen Hills has an open call for our upcoming special feature, "HOPE IS A DISCPLINE." For this theme, we are accepting: - Fiction - Poetry - Short Plays - Visual Art - Hybrid/Experimental - Creative Nonfiction More info here: fourteenhills.submittable.com/submit

Shout-out to fictional works of fiction referenced in works of fiction

He has not a care In one hundred galaxies Orange cat sleeping #scifaikusaturday #care #haiku

Other work by the Ladybird artists 'September' (Shell Guide to Flowers of the Countryside) 1955 Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

'Now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time. Such a silence is not a mere negation of sound. It is like a new element, and the world is suspended there, and I in it.' Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain #BookWormSat 🎨 Jane MacNeill

'Speechlessly, they stared at the wondrous tableau of the setting sun in a golden splendour of clouds. Then they became aware of the blissful poetry of things.' - Cyriel Buysse Tomorrow #BookWormSat shall celebrate Cyriel Buysse's birthday with the theme Naturalist Literature. Do join us!

I like the idea of finding words in whispering places. #amwriting #writingcommunity lithub.com/in-praise-of...

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 19, 2025: #SHELL #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

When hero trainee Meteor Strike clashes with a newly-formed girl group & the baddie president, who will emerge victorious? And who gets custody of the gold hot tub? Join the team in DAUGHTERS OF ERIS, the satirical third book in the Meteor Strike superhero series. 🪐📚 a.co/d/6vLNiIf

New Evie and the Afterlife on a newly-organized thread! #WIPWednesday #WIPSnips

Pre-order links for the ebook are starting to pop up at some of the most popular platforms! Roadkill is a unique eco-horror tale featuring 25 original illustrations by me! Cover also by me! books2read.com/RoadkillBook

∴ kiss o𝔣 hares — 𝔣leete heart-reins snap, 𝔣lit we wunder wilde-wayes leape þæn loll ∴ #haikufeels #vss365 #poemspell 🗣️🗝️ 𝔣 → "f" þ - "th" as in thin þæn - then

Gandalf at the Council of Elrond: "This meeting could have been an eagle."

Fancy a go at #screenwriting? My husband has a few places left on the next run of his course '100 pages in 10 weeks', which begins on 8 Oct, 7-9pm UK time on Zoom. For more info & testimonials, see: www.onlinescreenwritingacademy.com/course/100-p... #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Film #TV

A tall tale told and spun, gold threads and spinning wheels, rose reds and apples. A myth that rises from fog and descends over stone, labyrinths and wax melt, creation and hero. We are wisdom and folly, old book and word of mouth. Stories by the fire for when the world feels cold. #whistpr myth

tanka weekly #poetry challenge September 18, 2025 this week’s prompt: paper write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

grey house on the hill at noon the high windows blink filling up with clouds

lily's bouquet - hints of a lost dreamscape #DailyHaikuPrompt | lotus, subtle

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon Sept 15, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - HUMANITY MORAL VALUES COMPASSION NEIGHBORLY VIRTUES post with hashtag: #inkMine

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 17, 2025: #MUSHROOM #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

autumn at my door the wild wind brings me all her withered roses #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

earth keeps her thoughts secret walnut shells #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry