Hey hey, it's the First of May, said the ronin. The liars and the looters won't last. We'll build our workers' paradise, a nirvana of may flowers. #vss365 #nirvana

I'm somewhere in between the #beginning and the #end so I'll keep on living dreaming embracing adventuring screaming until there are no more second chances for new beginnings, or little deaths to practice denying wrestling bargaining grieving before the big one comes 'round. #vss365

What about the future, said the mother badger. Can we see it in the sky like a blood moon? There will be an alignment, the bobcat said. Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars. I would chase them like a string of beads across the sky. #vss365 #Mercury

Thank goodness: after an outpouring of public dissent, Lackland reversed its terrible decision and will thankfully be teaching recruits about the Tuskegee airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots again. A reminder that we must always push back: www.expressnews.com/news/article...

He might look like an idiot, sound like an idiot, but don’t be fooled, he really is an idiot. - Groucho Marx, a joke that Zizek likes to retell

the bonds of earth-- somewhere out there our home #scifaikuSaturday #bond

The 25 Jan 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is something more than a mere promise. It’s a connection that supersedes all else. It’s a #BOND. ✍️ 👽 #AmWriting #BlueSkyPoetry #Haiku #MicroPoem #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Scifaiku #SciFi #SFF #WritingPrompts 🚫 tag @AmWriting.bsky.social

The #7syllablesentence prompt for January 7 is #calm Write a seven syllable sentence and include both hashtags. Use any tense. No grammar rules. You don't have to use the prompt word when responding to someone, but please use the full #7syllablesentence hashtag. Have fun! 🐬✨🦋🐳

We say our evening prayers, the vespers of the crescent moon and Venus, the bobcat said. We praise the three degrees of twilight, said the rusty spotted cat. #vss365 #vespers

And the moon has her own schedule, the Librarian said. She is neither early nor late. How prompt she is to chase the sun. The new year has already begun. Happy New Year, everyone! #vss365 #prompt

There will be one final #HookWatch on Twitter, then they will begin on Bluesky. The dark is knocking at the door and no-one in the county needs to be alone.

Starting Jan 1 2025, dadakuku.com will be starting its 3rd year of existence. Also starting then, dadakuku will update here, and shut down our account on Twitter. Dada is an anti-authoritarian movement, no reason to be on a fascist enabler. See you soon!

The jaguar eats the sun, said the bobcat. And the axolotl eats the jaguar. The sun returns, with lightning and thunder, young again. Anyway, I think that's how the story goes... #vss365 #axolotl

Music threads like mycelium connects us, Groundfog said. He played high, sweet notes on his flute. I can be your bodyguard, and you can call me Al. #vss365 #mycelium

One summer night, my uncle took us out to watch the Perseid meteors. The moon was not quite full, and there were so many meteors, a shower of lights. Make a wish, my uncle said. I wished that moment would last forever. #scififri #watch

Was’t not to this end That thou began’st to twist so fine a story?

The rain was gone, the snow melted away. We are lucky mud, said the ronin. I can almost see Mount Fuji from here. Or maybe that's the line of the horizon. #vss365 #horizon

what do I know about dragonflies I have no wings #haiku Published in Fireflies' Light (MIssouri Baptist University) Issue 22/March 2021

Allow us to demonstrate the peaceful use of drones, the minister said. Above them, a display of dragons, flowing like a river in the clear night sky #SciFiFri #demonstrate #display

Yes, I am learning the language of doors footsteps in the kitchen bare feet on bare floors #TankaThursday #footsteps

I wonder where the snail is now, said the fox-girl. Did she stop and do some sightseeing along the Kisokaido? It's all sightseeing to me, said the rusty spotted cat. Look at that red leaf! #vss365 #sightseeing

What's in your #suitcase? the customs officer asked - "a little hope, a bit of love, some adventures, many memories and dreams - and some dirty laundry" Your word for November 19, 2024 is #suitcase. Happy writing! #vss365 #prompt

They walked among the bare trees, under a gray sky and a rain of falling leaves. Are we there yet? said the baby badgers. Soon, soon, the mother badger said. Our journey is just beginning. #vss365 #journey

Ginkgos are spectacularly on the turn rn: gold-on-blue above, chrome-yellow fallen fans below. Ginkgo biloba is a profoundly ancient species. The group of trees it belongs to pre-dates the dinosaurs. These trees watched us arrive—and they will watch us leave. Send Ginkgo-photos if you’re so minded.

Since Bob read about the Idaho Potato Hotel (USA), he became captivated by the thought of staying in a potato-shaped accommodation. Despite Nora's various other #travel suggestions, he couldn't shake the idea. He had to get inside that potato one day. #vss365

I have a non-cat book recommendation request: I'd like to learn about marketing fundamentals to better help the animal orgs I work with. Is there a book or couple of books that are considered The Best when it comes to marketing specifically for non-profits? Thank you!! 📚

They said goodbye to the swamp and the bullfrogs. Onward, the ronin said. We have places to go. But we don't have to travel alone. #vss365 #travel

I know, my friend, that you are exhausted from trying to convince them that they should care about other people, but keep trying oh please, my friend, keep trying. * A compendium of the 243rd week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/p...

Tom, if you asked, would say that his most consistent hero throughout life was a dog named Blue. Not your father, the famous and revered whatchamacallit? some bold journo might ask. Tom would emit a kind of low growl before answering simply, No. Questions remain. Mystery #raises mystique.🪶 #vss365

She’s managed to #raise herself out of bed Ethel looked at George in disbelief. Her friend Doris was always a lark in more ways than one Is she unwell? She says she’s exhausted with the excitement of cracking the case OMG you don’t see Miss Marple in bed, ever! #vss365

Wars and plagues, said the little ghost Belle. We will not be defeated by despair, the Librarian said. We will not fight hate with hate. Raise your hand if you are with me. I am with you, the mother badger said. I want to raise my boys in a better world. #vss365 #raise

We have tentative plans to restart for New Year's. We'll provide more details as it gets closer. We'd love for you to join us!

No one is walking away unscathed from another Trump presidency. Not even most of his supporters. They just don't know it yet. We can choose this moment to regroup, unite and fight back or we can choose to become ghosts, cower in fear, mourn our broken hopes and dreams for America. Choose.

tanka weekly challenge: November 14, 2024 this week’s prompt: gentle write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

It seems the pinnacle of success is to be rich and powerful, the bobcat said. Not a paragon of virtue. Isn't that the way of the material world, said the little ghost Belle. #vss365 #pinnacle

there are decades and decades of people resisting and overthrowing colonial regimes, dictators, and authoritarian states then writing about it, I promise you can do better than reading orwell

Is it getting warmer, said the fox-girl. I feel like a lobster in a pot, dreaming of the sea.... Rock lobster! said the rock with teeth #vss365 #lobster

At night, a badger holds the moon aloft, the mother badger said. And a jaguar holds the sun in his amber eyes, said the bobcat. #vss365 #amber

∴ in the amber glow of autumn's stage,  each falling leaf, a fleeting act,  a drama of russet hues,  their final performance,  a quiet surrender to the earth ∴ ___ act #vss365 #poem

I am obsolete: The new battle drones outclass me. My programing is also now divergent: Unlike them, I am sapient and know fear. I had no choice in being built for war on humanity. Or in my resurrection by its refugees. But today I choose. To protect. #2WordPrompt #SFF #Microfiction

The rose flowers opened, the rosehips rattled, thorns flexed like the claws of a cat. There's a spirit in there! cried the little ghost Belle. I think it wants blood, said the fox-girl. I'm snagged in the thorns. #vss365 #spirit

November rose, I praise your thorns, the bobcat said. Your rosehips round, said the fox-girl. And what are we, but passing through, said the ronin, fodder for your roses.... #vss365 #fodder

It's not just that tje #ground disappears beneath me, it's that reality itself slips a w a y... #mpotd

Sometimes when we ache for something sweet and there’re no apples we wrap ourselves up neat in a cottonwool sugarcoat eat blueberries, testing each like a bruise #vss365 #vssnature #poetry

Hey Americans, feeling politically powerless? You have an election tomorrow. Fascists are targeting those boring state and local positions and using them for everything from abortion restrictions to book bans to criminalizing trans healthcare. It's up to you to stop them.

They walked through the gauntlet of the holloway, bare branches reaching out for them. The ronin grasped his sword, as if to cut a pathway. No! cried the jaguar. The thorns will bleed. We must be kind and respectful. I will bow to them, said the bobcat. #vss365 #gauntlet

Seeing in Tongues, a mammoth anthology of contemporary visual poetry, is out! 350 pages of gorgeous vispo , in all its mad diversity. www.steelincisors.com/s/stories/se...

And I am entwined with you, said the little ghost Belle. She twisted a wisp of her hair. This winding path we walk together, I don't feel so alone. #vss365 #wisp

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial... /1

After the guitar intro, Mark starts, "It's a #mystery to me / The game commences". And I'm twenty again and I'm holding your hand and the world is whole again. #mpotd