- i kept your last words on the sill for years, small, wingless things pretending they were birds. tonight, i opened the window and watched my old hurt defenestrate itself into the rain, staining the sidewalk black below. - #poetry #vss365

Today's #PaintbyWords is an oldy, but even more true than ever like Crow I collect sparkly things to give you, wishing each was my heart #haiku #poetry

#WIPSnips (Draw) #wip 'Look Up' I hear children's voices, excited as I was back then. "Look up, Dad. Look up." "Do you know them?" I should close the windows, draw the blinds. "Not in real life. Let's see if I can remember them without my phone." "Look up."

you need not climb them some mountains are meant to be dreamed from the valley #dailyhaikuprompt #Mountains #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Anni fumbled through the bunch of keys at her waist. A swift glance told her the guards had resumed their game of dice. They would force the door if she commanded them to, but better that they should not notice where she had gone. She found a key that looked the right size and tried it. #WIPSnips

fox at the fence line reminding the green garden it too is wild #dailyhaikuprompt #Fox #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

summer clouds~ someone whistling while folding chairs #haiku

ceasefire underneath the rubble their clenched hands #vss365 #senryu

Today’s Thursday June 18th prompt is #stage #thingstowriteabout

"A little further," Jubb breathed. The first of the birds reached the cage. Suddenly there was an explosion of fur in their midst and a clamour of barks and hisses. At the end of it, Jubb found he had a skinny snarling mongrel in the cage and a few feathers. #ThingsToWriteAbout

Happy Wednesday.

We call the mountain #Mother. Not because she feeds us with the crystal water running from her back. Not because she looks over us day and night. But because if you dare to hurt us, she will rain down firey fury on you, your homes and your children without a moment's hesitation. Careful now. #vss365

Music, Speaks what we can't #ThingsToWriteAbout - music #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky

Today’s Thursday June 11th prompt is #bark #thingstowriteabout

Hours must have passed since Ussu's pains began. Maybe this wait was normal, like those #music-stories that kept promising to build towards a climax only to #fall back to the original refrain. If only, Ro had known what to expect from her first birth-song. #ThingsToWriteAbout #vss365

at twilight a flute song in minor sweetly sweetly my eyes fill #tankapoem #tankathursday #tanka #HermitThrush #twilight

#vss365 She resides in the grooves, slipping in and out of the visible realm. There is a pause in the conversation. Unspoken words are floating nearby. She steps sideways, and glides through the hidden door. The brain is shutting down, and colors are #falling asleep.

Today’s Thursday June 4th prompt is #stories #thingstowriteabout

following the bee deep down inside the foxglove where darkness is sweet

With the lamp in one hand and the iron rod in the other, Anni started down the narrow dogleg steps. She turned the corner and almost dropped her makeshift weapon as the stench assaulted her. Ahead of her in the gloom was a row of heavy metal cages. #ThingsToWriteAbout

Today’s Thursday May 28th prompt is #corner #thingstowriteabout

sun behind layers of clouds ghostlight #haiku #senryu

step across the rift not because it disappeared but because you grew #vss365 #Rift #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

"Strange #rift?" I said with a sigh. "Check," Valarie noted. "No sign of Riz." "Check." "Empty whisky bottles." "Check." "Guess that means only one thing." "Riz opened a portal to go and rob a distillery?" "Sadly." 'And we have to go after him?" "Also sadly." #vss365 #riztherogue

#Rain hurled itself down on Fordel's squad and the slopes of bracken, making the dry leaves crackle and snap. It plastered the horses' manes to their necks and soaked through cloaks to add to the general ill-humour. There was no way the lord could come out of this mission smelling sweet. #WIPSnips

Today’s Monday May 25th prompt is #fern #thingstowriteabout

i’ve no more remorse too old for any regrets it is time to live #emoetry #Remorse #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Fion has just ducked into a doorway to get out of the rain and has discovered she's not alone. *Oh no!* It's Joric. How inconvenient. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FantasySky #GasLamp #TimeTravel

"Why do you do that?" she asked. Dovinna paused. "All that walking about going nowhere." "It helps me think." "In Iyessa stillness is thought to promote contemplation." Ro considered a moment. She had never known it to work for her. She joined Dovinna's pacing. #WIPSnips

Our love is old clothes #Lingering threads hang loosely Our own ties fraying #vss365 #haiku #poetry

Today’s Thursday May 21st prompt is #seal #thingstowriteabout

Congratulations/Condolences: You have been accepted to/rejected Schrödinger University. Information about our offer may or may not be enclosed Please let us know your intentions as soon as possible—or don’t. Yours in uncertainty, #vss365

Bissig led them into the embrace of the forest. Like a spurned lover, it grasped at shoulders and ankles, tugged hair and trailed long scratches over exposed flesh. They stopped to eat. Fordel chewed over how long he should play this game along with his food. #WIPSnips #ThingsToWriteAbout

Today’s Monday May 18th prompt is #hungry #thingstowriteabout

Yes I am that person who gets mesmerized by bees this time of year..they’re fascinating though and they let me get so close. ✨

Each household has its own climate, its own biome. She was left with a #barren desert, and envied those with lush rainforests or rolling plains. But one morning, she sat in the rosy blaze of desert sunrise, sipping her fragrant tea. And realized there was beauty here too. #vss365

They were following the river, which had once been full of lazily flowing water fringed with willows, before it was channelled to irrigate the fertile lowlands of Ortann, instead of flowing into Amradoc. Now that country is barren, with poor soil and skinny flocks. #vss365

Here's Soryl and Win having banter #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FantasySky #DarkFantasy #Necromancy

Big weather. Small bird. Tiny snacks. #BirdOfTheDay #WaterDroplets #WildlifePhotography #WhiteThroatedSparrow #BirdPhotography #Birds #Birding #BackyardBirding #BirdsOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

Hello, lovelies Here is a tiny blog about what birds say in springtime - according to science, folklore, and me. Hope you enjoy 2 mins read #blog #amwriting #birdsong #writingcommunity www.jennygaitskell.com/single-post/...

It’s gremlins, Or pixies, The things that I lose, My glasses, The house keys, And even my shoes, The things that are hidden, That I carefully tossed, I can’t find my tea cup, Or the marbles I’ve lost. #thingstowriteabout hidden

Today’s Saturday May 16th prompt is #shelf #thingstowriteabout

How much longer? Ro tucked her hands under her armpits to keep from covering her ears. Maybe if she could block out the sound of the hearers' droning song and squeeze her #eyes tight shut she would be able to will the baby out of her sister's womb. #ThingsToWriteAbout

#vss365 She paints with colored fog, unfamiliar mixtures of emotion. In this patch despair and lust. In another warmth and hate. She's trying to teach. There are no #unalloyed feelings, they're always paired with uncomfortable siblings. At the core of her inscape is love and acceptance.

tattered flags twist on the warm breeze whispers of elsewhere #DailyHaikuPrompt (south wind)

Oh for the pure imagination of childhood, brimming with infinite possibility, unalloyed by reality! #vss365

Her unseen assailant tore at her hands, gripping with dagger-like talons and tangling #wings in her hair. A tail lashed stinging blows to her #face and shoulders. #WIPSnips #ThingsToWriteAbout

glacier cave— our lanterns teaching blue about yellow #haiku #poetry