castles out of air, no stones to clear when they fall, yet oxygen fails #WildWalkPrompt #castle #haiku #writing #micropoetry

Suddenly struck by A bleak epiphany, smile Turning upside down. #GrimScribe #BleakEpiphany #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @weirdmicro.bsky.social

Extinct by design A mother breathes easier when her children sleep @yeehawpoems.bsky.social #poetry #haiku #senryu (I saw the duo-ness of @rayhourigan.bsky.social and @underablacksky.bsky.social's pieces and decided a sequel was needed 😁)

the unconscious mind, worn cinematographer, weights lights to frame us #BraveWrite #cinematographer #haiku #micropoetry #writing

civic mirage floats, humanity oasis, shifting on approach #BSPP54 #civicmirage #haiku #writing #micropoetry

swifts swirl like commas with motivated malice scripting our smallness #PoisonPen #motivatedmalice #haiku #micropoetry

bleak epiphany, a stray signal on the air, strangled into hiss #GrimScribe #bleakepiphany #haiku #writing #micropoetry

velvet cloud of news, fungal contagion of fear, mind is colonised #WeirdMicro #fungalcontagion #haiku #writing #micropoetry

frenzied tousled hair, whipping in the heavy gale blending in the wild #emoetry #frenzied #haiku #writing #micropoetry

Poppy blood blended Suffused into syringe And sent slurping into vein. Bringing chiffon dreams, Then the wanting, The clawing more, To take away the pain, Send him back to sleep So we can watch his death I peace... #wildwalkprompt #poppy #death #freeverse #poem

#vss365 #poetry Moon looks down in #victory Weaving celestial charms Through moonlight and moonbeams Rendering speechless Its harem of stars What hope be for Us mere mortals Looking above Looking for answers For solace An age old comfort The sun can’t win With its burning eye

Two poems born from worlds apart, one on the left, one on the right, anthology closes, words touch, victory over entropy. #vss365 #prompt #victory

walk the labyrinth, if you never get quite lost, the game stays frozen #WildWalkPrompt #lost #haiku #writing #micropoetry

human by design, solid gold to muffle screams, mocking their own grave #Cassiopeian #design @yeehawpoems.bsky.social

Bleach-white rocks of Ligury, Treacherous frailty edge Of the sea claiming the land— Not a tear shed, falling, the heavy, salty air was enough and recklessness smiled with me. #JollyJune #rock @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

sloppy fingernails meaningless things that still ache colours peeling off #BraveWrite #fingernails #haiku #micropoetry #writing

#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic DAY 3 - A remix or acoustic version. Elliott Smith - “Miss Misery" piano, recorded @2 Meter Sessions youtu.be/RLK811Ac_NY?...

glassless memory taped to the wall banana I rot in full view #BSPP54 #glasslessmemory #haiku #writing #micropoetry

pulse bytes transmission clandestine text prompts the wire phantom current runs #GrimScribe #clandestinetext #haiku #writing #micropoetry

rigid is her mold ceremonial cudgel smashing what won’t bend #WeirdMicro #ceremonialcudgel #haiku #writing #micropoetry

Happy #windmills memories for #JollyJune @daveashleypoet.bsky.social #poetry

don't fight windmill arms, rest on the green grass below, enjoy their blithe breeze #JollyJune #windmill @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

between two lapses nothing bore witness - white mountain

summer starts decay a diseased congregation of rest, roast and rot #WeirdMicro #diseasedcongregation #haiku #writing #micropoetry

ebon scriptorium a white sheet the only key monochord writing #GrimScribe #ebonscriptorium #haiku #writing #micropoetry

walk through my own view, sing the words I cannot write see what I see now #WildWalkPrompt #view #haiku #writing #micropoetry

I move where light ends embarrassed by my own words breathing a thin noise #emoetry #embarrassed #haiku #writing #micropoetry

black coffee spills out, a dark and bitter rampage  across all my world #BraveWrite #rampage #haiku #micropoetry #writing

It stayed with me, view Of my home town by the sea, Distant origin. #BSPP54 #DistantOrigin #WildWalkPrompt #view #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

a cold, fading scar, born from a forgotten day, distant origin #BSPP54 #distantorigin #haiku #writing #micropoetry

#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic DAY 2 - With a month in the title. The Goo Goo Dolls - “January Friend” youtu.be/Dp4kOXCLcfw?...

damning evidence two wet rings upon the wood, you were not alone #PoisonPen #damningevidence

I don't need to lie, my deathbed confession shines on everyday sheets #PoisonPen #deathbedconfession

#PoisonPen #June #WritingPrompts

black screen in my hand, Into the tenebrous depth, I stare at my face #WeirdMicro #tenebrousdepth #haiku #writing #micropoetry

He fastened the dark ruby at her throat. Warmed by her skin, the stone softened, remembering what it once was. A thread of ancient, coagulated blood stirred awake, studying its new host, deciding whether to finish what time had paused. #weirdhorror #coagulated_blood

#7syllablesentence #pride false pride wipes the cowards tears

midnight's a crisis, spurring his pale horse over, never looking back #vss365 #prompt #midnight

"After the Chalk Is Erased" The slate is cleared, the chalk sun gone but in the grain, a pale afterimage waits for the next hand #BlueSkyRemnant

Old book, happy child, Pollyanna’s rules remain, Making work Glad Game #JollyJune #happy @daveashleypoet.bsky.social

JUNE #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts June arrives in fragments. Step into colliding word pairs and write what they open under pressure. Theme: Visible Strain Slogan: June holds meaning under visible strain. Use #BSPP54 to share work from any day in June. #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP54 #June #poetry

unholy relic, looming shadows in the fridge, cold stairway to hell #haikuhorrorprompt #unholyrelic #loomingshadows #writing #micropoetry

where are flying cars? disillusioned with today, back to hopeful past #emoetry #disillusioned #haiku #writing #micropoetry

smacked the kitchen knob, tears are falling, funny bone, where is the punchline? #BraveWrite #funnybone #haiku #micropoetry #writing

let's untie our knot, slow, caring, for to vexed fate it's a second's snip #WildWalkPrompt #knot #haiku #writing #micropoetry

coffin ad pops up, such grotesque speculation before news reel starts #GrimScribe #grotesquespeculation #haiku #writing #micropoetry

tiny buzzing wings and insatiable bloodlust, take the room, I’m out #PoisonPen #insatiablebloodlust #haiku #writing #micropoetry

immemorial darkness, what did visit us in our mothers' wombs? #WeirdMicro #immemorialdarkness #haiku #writing #micropoetry

taste my pulsing neck, insidious dessert of flesh I belong to you #haikuhorrorprompt #insidious #dessert #writing #micropoetry