Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

BREAKING: A federal court just blocked the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of Maryland voters. In 9 out of 9 attempts, courts have prevented the Trump administration from accessing voters' data.

silent field fireflies speak for us morse code ✨ #haiku #micropoetry #poetry #fireflies #morsecode

hot meadow sunset orange sky fades to purple flickering fireflies lingering in the solstice trading kisses on tanned skin 🌄🥵☀️🌻💋✨ #tanka #micropoetry #summersolstice

#BlueSkyRemnants what lingers #Prompters #Poetry #micropoetry Haunting Mothers An old gospel hymn drifts softly through humid halls thick with clove incense. My mother’s voice still lingers inside unfinished blessings. #blackskyrelay #tanka #haiku4u

Some quickly written blast from the noughties inspired by this week's #poemsabout prompt #outaftermidnight I might write another one later. The theme is clearly taking me back. Excited to check out your pieces after work. #poetry #queer

In the dark👀forest🌿🖤🌿sketch in colored pencil✨ #forest #sketch #mushrooms #fungi #enchantedforest #coloredpencils #UkrainianArtist #traditionalart #artonpaper #draw #drawing #handdraw #artwork #sketchbook #woods #woodland #traditionalart #natureart #fungifriends

a thousand flavours #one taste #7SyllableSentence #nature #photo

Juneteenth moon not full not finished still carrying the light forward #Photography #Astrophotography #Moon #Night #Astronomy #Space #NightPhotography #Juneteenth #EastCoastKin #NightSky #Haiga #ImageAndVerse

Paws up! 🐾🐾 Happy Caturday 😻 #BlueSky #cloudart #photography

open grave nothing but this fistful of petals (FemkuMag) #haiku #micropoetry

lost soul, a dark toy we dress up in paper dreams instantly devoured #PoisonPen #lostsoul #haiku #writing #micropoetry

red teeth of dawn sunlight cracks through mesas to chew on bleached bones #♡ᝰ.🖋️ #haiku #poetrysky #poetry #poem #blueskypoets #micropoetry

Simultaneous fear of being forgotten and of forgetting #poetry #haiku

One of the intro pages of The Conjuring of America. #juneteenth #freedom #quotes

Poem for Juneteenth. From Robert Hayden's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780871406798 #poem #booksky #writing

This will always make me cackle 🤭

Happy Juneteenth! Read a book (or 5) by a Black author!

Nectarine Dreams 🍑✨ i lie in fantasies under nectarine trees into soft skin i sink eager teeth such saccharine relief… sticky juices slide down my cheeks i consume the flesh until the pit is freed #micropoetry #poetry #nectarines #summerdreams

nothing happens then happens again more quietly #haiku

Knocking his socks off - a ‘mild’ curry. #dailyhaikuprompt mild #senryu #haiku 🍛

Lurking 👀 (Jagged ambush bug lurking on largeflower milkweed, Asclepias connivens)

Procrastinating one project by working on another

Through water gates of time paths through ripples coldness of home choices through now the familiar returns self #poetry

young moon caught in the pine branches the night still unfinished #haiku

Without the whiskey This tea is weak Not up to the task of my wonderings In the early hours Thinking of tree-skinned men I knew Mahogany, Ebony, Redwood Tilling concrete Root-veined Stone-eyed Sap-hearted fools What strange winds Had felled them Lending light And guilt To my own crown #poetry

Old ginger cat snuggles into my arm crook My shoulders loosen J. C. #poetry #haiku #haikufeels

the mountain path goes nowhere- so I follow it #illustration #booksky #haiku

I'm done with apologies let the moon shine through me if she desires splinter with bright my hands remember rituals and light darkest of midnights I'm done with apologies #poetry

I hope you enjoy my new #poem, the first in a month. ✌️ #FuckCancer #flowers

Spent the past couple of weeks reconnecting with nature. 🌲 It was a relief to get out of my own head even for a little while.

Due process is one of the most basic promises in the Constitution. It protects us from arbitrary government power. So when Trump’s DOJ asks the Supreme Court to let ICE detain lawful permanent residents indefinitely without bond hearings, they are not just attacking immigrants.

I know chiropractors are a mixed bag & people feel like it's hokey, but mine helps so much, especially when my neck is locked during migraines. He uses a combo of treatments on top of adjustments, so that could be what sets him apart.

late at night with eyes glassy and glazed i fantasize of space dreaming of beings on worlds light years away wondering what they did with their day 👽✨ #micropoetry #poetry #starblazing #blazing #aliens

two cheshire grins yours / the crescent moon two naughty mouths teasing i shimmer with the stars gleefully lost in the dark 🌙💋🥵🔥✨ #micropoetry #crescentmoon #waxingcrescent #sensual #cheshire #tease

closer, further too many similar, different things exist 😵‍💫⁉️ #micropoetry #poetry

Migraines will have you walking around your own home with sunglasses on even with all the curtains drawn shut 😫

Despite my woes, I recently enjoyed all of these shows: Apothecary Diaries Link Click With You and the Rain Cat's Eye Spy Family Wolf's Rain Natsume and Friends Sakamoto Days Bartender: Glass of God Nyaight of the Living Cat Currently watching: The Summer Hikaru Died My Roommate is a Cat

NGC 7293 The Helix Nebula (LRGB) The Helix Nebula, is a stunning planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius. This nebula is sometimes called the "Eye of God". #astrophotography #astronomy #PhotographersUnite #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotographersOfBluesky @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social (See ALT👇)

Him shy (back yard Marpissa lad 🤎) #EmotionalSupportSpood

Surround yourself with the kind of people who read banned books.

Back cover for Marvel's "DOCTOR WHO" No.8 (USA, 1985) created to tie in with the story "Dreamers of Death". Art by Dave Gibbons. #DoctorWho

Need a periscope To see above the bullshit, Submerged as we are. #BraveWrite #periscope #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @bravewrite.bsky.social

Our epithet will read that we were chasing dreams of democracy, finding a fiend emperor, knowing he wore no clothes but beholden to billionaires and trillionaires who decided are quality of life for us as we endlessly scrolled and argued #inkMine #ourpoetryx #vss365 #vssmagic #poetry

My love of Doctor Who is not diminished by a blip in the production schedule. #DoctorWho

Spiders are such amazing creatures, what a great shot of this one 🥰🕷️

among the fireflies i dream on warm, lucent nights buzzing with desire green pastures in my future full of blooming wildflowers 🌸🏵️🪻🌅✨ #tanka #micropoetry #wildflowers

if only we could live like the wildflowers, blooms of all sizes and colors sharing the soil of one field #micropoetry #poetry #wildflowers Another one of my poems in the Alchemy and Miracles #poetryanthology 🌸🪻🌻🏵️

Wildflowers 🌸🌻🪻 #bloomscrolling

Football matches next To concentration camps, a Cup tainted by crime. #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity