Good morning writers, Seven days in and seven to go, midway through my prompting... Find the words that make your writing special, and enjoy it. 24 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #eventuality

Following footsteps Rock begs questions of walkers The way is not clear #dailyhaikuprompt footsteps rock

The steady chiming of the #bellwether Keeping time, checking mood, writing a score This major key keeper, this pacesetter Like plucked strings we strum and hum all the more While feet step lightly in common time flair To a tune we think never heard before #vss365

Welcome writers, and friends to this Tuesday. Take the lead, lift your story from imagination to ink 23 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #bellwether

Streams fat with salmon Geese unravelling the sky Letting out summer #dailyhaikuprompt salmon geese

Our daily haiku prompts for Sep 20-27 Welcome to the new participants and thank you to those who've been here all along. As always, use the prompts (or not) as you see fit. North South 09/20 Cascade Cooling 09/21 Somber Crocus 09/22 Chilly Touch 09/23 Salmon Geese 09/24 Footsteps Rock 09/25 […]

We climbed the old tree, sat eating apples Smiling between bites, seeds and secret things Only climbers in high arms could grapple Tasting the way of things through red peelings Down to tough cores at the heart of knowings

The sea shushed that day Whitewashing old wrecks Taking words away And traces of steps Like we were never Never there at all No sign or tether Nothing to recall We had crossed the sea Followed our star Passing silently And cold from afar

Much before the fall Pride, foolishness or too much It's after that tells #haikufeels fall

winter, spring, and summer, fall again... today's #haikufeels #prompt is fall ~~ one more last... tears and maple leaves ...fall

Welcome writers, to the genesis of Autumn Grab your pen and make a statement! 22 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #reinvigorate

The wind clings to the coast like salt on skin And no wave breaks gently upon the shore You walk ahead quiet fingers skimming Rocks the departing sea has left forlorn Like words unsaid litter the days that flow And the sea sighs again of tomorrow As endless white lines write endings #sensewrds 122

Prompt 122 Someday Lingering Unsettled Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions about the prompt. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

Welcome writers, to the eve of Autumn. Let's all share for the world to see. 21 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #perhaps

Prompt 121 Cottage Winding Midnight Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds , and include the prompt number. No combo prompts. Message me if you have more questions about the prompt. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

Said our prayers on sore knees, threw coins and emptied pockets. Blew out candles with breath to spare, and crossed fingers ‘til knuckles popped. Rolled dice, picked cards, and held breath. And we filled a pot on a wish of #perhaps, perhaps for winnings we’d never earn. And then we folded. #vss365

The season’s somber Crocus petals cupped in prayer What stirs from slumber #dailyhaikuprompt somber crocus

How sadness settles An aftertaste with each bite Clouds never breaking

A poem cascade Cooling line, deep caesura Where words have fallen #dailyhaikuprompt cascade cooling

Tarmac motorways Gossamer overpasses Routes to getting home #cityverse

So many red threads Weaving, knotting or fraying Family blankets #haikufeels family

howdy, feelsfam! today's #haikufeels #prompt is family ~~ drifting planets the sun makes us a family

Heavy on our wee toes Weightless life breathes Both blessing and a curse This #stock full of emotions Ripping you stitching you back Within this flesh & bones filled husk #vss365 #poetry

There the morning horse Tail catching the first cool wind Chasing down the day #dailyhaikuprompt Morning horse tail

Welcome writers, friends and storytellers ~Keep a #stock of firewood for those cold winter nights~ 18 September 2025 #vss365 prompt word, is #stock

Before the lotus Subtle signs in dark water Of undertakings #dailyhaikuprompt Lotus subtle

At the next junction Bumping into an old friend Exchanging details #cityverse

And there the indrawn breath, where air and thought mix in the #synthesis of all delights and despairs. #vss365

I thought I left old feathers behind and here I am finding them and my nest is the warmer for it.

Good morning writers, poets and wordsmiths! ~Writing is the #synthesis of heart, dreams, and Life~ 17 September 2025 #vss365 prompt is #synthesis

Take a walk over bridge where trees and cloud move and sway, where up is down in passing puddles, reflecting leaves turning brown, you're on your way, on your way They say Catching train, heading south Alone and unbound, onward to London Town

Done it. Finished week 9 of cs50. Was challenging: tears were involved. Started on my final project so have invested in a bigger box of tissues and mugs for coffee😜

Silenced owl No longer asking who Why trees leave

What time is it now? The wind has already blown On dandelions

The winners are in — now read the commentaries…. Our judges reflect on what made each #Summer Competition winning #haiku rise to the surface www.waleshaikujournal.com/blog

The dusty cobweb Quiet reminder of things To leave or tend to

Too much like the leaves Caught up in wind between walls Missing my turning

Silence is a strange absence Like old long lost photographs Leaving a dusty odd space On the busy mantelpiece It is the waste between these Between the always just beens And the daily them agains Clinging like nagging shadows To things we heard and had once Only to lose in the noise #sensewrds 116

Prompt 116 Tentative Missing Darkness Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds so I can find your writing, and include the prompt number. Also remember that I ask for no combo prompts here. Message me if you have more questions about the prompt. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

I am not ready for autumn…for the fall. Yet my heavy limbs hang low with leaves that once were green and hang closer to loss than the bloom. I am not ready, yet the wind blows harder and colder. I am not ready, yet all things must have their winter.

There once was a guy called big Fred Who made sure he was oft well fed All it took were nooks And time with thick books For this bookworm where no one read

Made a heart of wax In a wicker chest And thought love could last The worst of darkness Like mother’s candle ‘Tween story and kiss

They had range between them. She played the piccolo and he the double #bass. She liked diving and he loved climbing. One liked comedy and the other horror, and they agreed to disagree on poached or fried. And somewhere between the two they had everything they needed. #vss365

#VSS365 #prompt #BASS The VSS365 prompt word for Aug 24, '25 is BASS - The lowest of tones, pitches, or frequencies, describing deep, low sounds. Also refers to a kind of fish. "The bass rumbled like tremors in the earth, and the dance floor crowd pulsed like a living thing."

Hummingbird Two slender throats Sweetly in tune

Standing stones and fairy rings Bent old oaks and cunning men Crones with sticks and dark warnings In bones and deep water when The moon sweeps neither waning Nor waxing, half-smile again To red hoods and wolves waiting Between sky and paths trodden Where we wander in dreaming #sensewrds 109

A hanging lantern Egg gold glow and a white shade Light cracks for supper #dailyhaikuprompt lantern egg

Prompt 109 Folklore Stepping Hands Do Not use the prompt words in your piece. Please use #SenseWrds so I can find your writing, and include the prompt number. Also remember that I ask for no combo prompts here. Message me if you have more questions about the prompt. Happy writing! ~M 🙏🏻

An evening out The wind joins the table Shows new dishes #cityverse

The wind in the trees Sharing secrets, dropping hints Above the diners #cityverse