Vespertine, my urge to write. Draw. Bake. Even though I love the good light. It seems...my doings are nocturnal. I guess that's why I have an affinity with cats. Bats. And tall black hats. #vss365 #dailywritingprompt #vespertine #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #microprose

I dig deep into the soul of these aphotic days, short and early-blue. Reflective as I walk through bracing wind, earthy mulch of leaves. Seeking rest on return, home's warm welcome. #vss365 #dailywritingprompt #aphotic #blueskypoetry #writingcommunity #microprose

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 867: Your authorial voice is the product of your background, your education, your experiences, all the books you have read. It may change with time, and depending on the narrative voice you adopt, but will keep the same range and register. Celebrate it. It's unique.

Things to do this weekend besides shopping: - manage your mind goblins - nap for 1,000 years - investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff - investigate pie - read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it

Learning how to keep my cool when tyrants continue to pillage the world is an ongoing, teeth-gritting monumental task. #vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Do not fear the night. Face it boldly. You and your creaking bones, fading memories, wine stained robe, and teetering piles of unread books belong to the darkness.

Only the bare minimum is achievable today and that is enough - for slow progress is still progress. #vss365 #poetryprompt #achievable #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

In reality all I want is to read books, take naps and drink tea. #vss365 #poetryprompt #reality #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Your afternoon weather: - heavy brain fog incoming - followed by a hailstorm of indecision - expect scattered showers of wistfulness & existential dread - 75% chance of heavy sighing and ennui will continue into tomorrow

Be yourself. Be helpful if you can. Be insufferable if you have to. Be as dark as you wish. Be the reason a forest is considered haunted. But most of all, be kind and stay weird.

Writers: truth tellers myth makers lifesavers world builders history preservers hermits travellers and voices for the voiceless. #vss365 #poetryprompt #myth #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem (Image: BigStock)

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 #language arboreal hangs in the air through scents and signals lives in networks underground gossiping and loving in ways we will never understand? #vss365 #prompt #poem #poetry #trees #autumn #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #evening

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

Yes, the forest is haunted. But that's not a bad thing. The creatures of moss & gloom, twigs & talons, and howls & horror are only trying to make connections. To be seen and heard. Just like all of us.

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

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

Hang in there little guy

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)

Oh, how these shortening days, confetti of leaves, and gentle, chill caress of breeze replenish my energy and never fail to bring me home to myself. #vss365 #poetryprompt #energy #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #autumndays www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aQd...

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

I hover between the dawn and the dream, heeding the call of a lustier scheme. #vss365 #poetryprompt #hover #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

What is unearthly? To no longer be of the earth? To be aerial, spiritual, extra-terrestrial? And what of the ceaseless ecocide of wars? Is this not the true meaning of unearthly? #vss365 #poetryprompt #unearthly #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

The beetle rolls its ball of dung across the earth just like the sun. #vss365 #poetryprompt #beetle #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

In this house, we believe: - love is love - science is real - books are magic portals - pants are always optional - squirrels are little demons - the forest accepts you as you are, and for who you will become

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)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This elastic heart, like the willow, will bend but never break, not again - at least not soon, and if it should it will heal as before - wearing war paint of blood, amid seams of battle scars. #vss365 #poetryprompt #elastic #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Tis the pulp of life the world within these books, my lifeline to dream worlds. #vss365 #poetryprompt #pulp #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

even in the dry barren scape there is a glimmer of hope, a shimmer of oasis, for the earth cannot help but bear fruit. #vss365 #poetryprompt #oasis #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Living to work instead of working to live is a fine conundrum. Don't even get me started on taxes. Why is living so expensive? #vss365 #poetryprompt #conundrum #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

this sonorous morning of strutting crows and charcoal clouds, I decide the world can wait another hour before I greet it. #vss365 #poetryprompt #sonorous #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

If you dream it, you can do it. Make an enchanted crown of antlers & bones. Haunt the darkness on the ragged edge of town. Unfurl your great black wings, take flight across the forest, and teach the night your name.

Autumn equinox sets me on my course, uplifts reinvigorates. #vss365 #poetryprompt #reinvigorate #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem (Image credit: Getty images)

Perhaps it's best not to dwell on could-have-beens when it's enough that I'm still here with time to create which is all I ever want to do anyway. #vss365 #poetryprompt #perhaps #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem #creativity

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)

I'm so pleased to have a poem published with Black Nore Review! @blacknorereview.bsky.social 💖 You can check it out below👇🏽 Anyone else partial to mango pickle? 🙂 blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/n... #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #publication #publishedpoet #blacknorereview

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)

It's barely bearable how the season's turn is so fleeting in its beauty, makes me ache for could-have-beens, makes me wonder if it's not too late. With the world on the cusp of breaking, I can only bare my soul to you. #vss365 #poetryprompt #bearable #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

I'm so pleased to have my poem, "I Met Carlos Castaneda in a Bar" published in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Rat's Ass Review 💖 You can check it out below👇🏽 ratsassreview.net?page_id=4488... #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #publication #publishedpoet #ratsassreview

I power through the next phase of my chapter with grace, grit and a little bit of luck. #vss365 #poetryprompt #power #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

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)

Answers elude me but healing is messy, so I shall not fret. #vss365 #poetryprompt #elude #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Good night 🌙 and….

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

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)

What relief it would be to expunge the media of politician's pungent lies. * (Farage can do one, along with Starmer🖕🏽) #vss365 #poetryprompt #pungent #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

I contain the sentient universe, whose cosmic thrum echoes in my circadian blood. #vss365 #poetryprompt #sentient #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Foraging away, flitting across the street, staring you out then darting up a tree There's nothing more audacious than squirrels. #vss365 #poetryprompt #audacious #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem