Monochrome Photography Todd Stoll © September 23rd, 2025 Realme phone camera #Photography #ManualFocus #ManualExposure

#vss365 #bellwether Go ahead and check— I'll be following the bell on a sheep's neck? Go ahead, next guess— English vss was our bellwether, yes? No: We quit for an immortal poetry bit—I haven't yet (yesterday) but today I won't forget to memorize Japanese; to surprise you w their Basho haiku. 🐸✌🏼

The salmon harvest Red honey for bumble-bears Spine held by the stem #dailyhaikuprompt #DailyHaikuPrompt #poem #poetry #haiku salmon

#MossyMonday Entry #2/2 📸 Leslie Ferrell

#haiku leaping swifts leave the rain gutter rattling

I want to know the you from the timelines that were culled; I want to hold your wounded, evil selves. Broken, world-breaking, sleeping in unmadeness, wake them and release them like white doves

lambs first thought. sluicing through the placenta, membrane bursting, meat erupting birthpain everywhere but Mothers gentle, square pupil the first star I see soaked in chroma, heaving white curls already springing up from my bellwether-newness O the world Is sweet Charybdis #vss365 #poem

Necklace of black pearls Snagged, a luminous garotte Pinching your pillar #haikuhorrorprompt #HaikuHorrorPrompt #poem #poetry #haiku garotte

Divine punishment Torture of limbs garrote style For his arrogance #366ff #haikuhorrorprompt #vsshorror

unsolemn news moonquakes cause lunar landslides this is not a lie #DailyHaikuPrompt #solemn #haiku

Penny dropped today A crocus isn't plural For crocodiles #DailyHaikuPrompt #dailyhaikuprompt #poem #poetry #haiku #senryu

Me comforting my copy of Hannibal Rising: "Shhhh, you weren't meant to be written. You are the product of greasy publishers looking to cash in, and your existence is a worm upon the laurels of literature. I still love you though"

#SenryuSunday #senryu #haiku ouroboros year of the snake keeps biting

Fixed my mother's modem simply by squeezing it really hard and threatening it. The caveman method of IT fixes remains undefeated

The three lines On Aphrodite's belly Marble foam caught between Immortal flesh Her full stomach, the opposite Of lovelessness Scented fig and wood nymph #poem #poetry #aphrodite

My untamed garden Gloveless, the thorns scribble runes Redder than berries #haiku #poem #poetry

Theme: #Telekenesis #pixelart #pixel_dailies @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Rutting is such an excellent, grotesque word. 10/10, perfect bit of language

The speckled egg, secretly lain Upon the stalks, recently spilt By the hen, cunningly quick Under the cloak of darkness Perhaps, this time They won't find it They'll have toast instead For breakfast #vss365 #poem #poetry #prompt perhaps

Sky-blue, tiny pills Thinning the silk of your heart Of its scarlet ink #poem #poetry #haiku

oh, love the way the light within murmurs across your skin and the zephyrs dare to tease at your hair I am lost, I am lost to the realms of reverie #poetry

I'm blue, da-ba-dee-da-ba-di #nature #landscape #photography

The somber poppies In the hospital garden Round as fed leeches #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poem #poetry #somber

The beach, during this Slyly false spring Sighs yellow and sparkling black Whipped with grit. Horn of cuttlefish Engorged waves, interstitial Lace between a hungry Blue oblivion It's eyelessness doesn't move us We march back as exiles #poem #poetry #vss365 #freeverse #beach

Touched the grass (and the sea and sand 🌅)

last lily on the pond i know that look of goodbye #vssdaily #look

A catastrophe Tall boots with red culottes. Call The fashion police #vss365 #poem #poetry #haiku catastrophe

I bought a new fridge I didn't measure it right It only fits one head #haiku #poem #poetry #horror

Honey-dew on tongue In full extrusion; fed heart Of the hummingbird #vss365 #haiku #poem #poetry

Ripper Refuse Your humbling #facades Gutted by pure violence Blood spilled onto streets #haikuhorrorprompt

Got baited into a reddit debate about semen retention AGAIN it's like the horseshoe crab of fringe practices

🦝 Squirrels and other fur-bearers Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. [Source]

Heavy morning mist The parhelion it makes Angels playing with matches #poem #poetry #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

Thinking about starting a substack newsletter highlighting historical/forgotten poets and the themes/symbols in their work. Particular focus on poets outside of the Western sphere and the impact of their work in their native countries. If anyone has any tips or suggestions, I'd be grateful ☺️

Hippopotamus Chubby herbivore, silly Little ears. Your mouth An oxymoron of rage If not friend, why shaped like friend? #poem #poetry #tanka #haiku

"INTERSTATE IKE" Noir/horror poem by me Interstate Ike is the quintessential everyday predator. He could be behind you at a traffic light, or parked at your local diner eating a burger in the cab. He never uses a map, and you wonder if he's ever needed to use one #poem #poetry #ballad #horror

Morning light reveals, I ache to pull you closer, one last hug for you. #haiku #poetry #morning

embrace paradox! and don't embrace paradox! paradox haiku!

"BARBED WIRE" Free-verse poem by me Growing up a rural child, the fenceline became a liminal space whose sole occupation was to cut into the land; not to tame it, but to castrate its selfhood, and by extension, the selfhood of everything it contains.

Rooster love: a solar blur #poem #poetry #sevensyllablesentence blur

🌿 A second century of ferns London: Dulau, 1864. [Source]

Pinched nerve of a day Numb hours. Handcuffed minutes Pacing the grey cage #haiku #poem #poetry #freeverse

Red and sticky sad. Please carve out my ovaries. I'm not using them. #odetomyovaries #thattimeofthemonth #periodhaiku #haiku

🌧️ hush just listen to the rain fall 🌃 streetlights illuminating the rain a shower of sparks #haiku #senryu

He's a ten but pronounced Neapolitan phonetically so I guess he's still a ten, just needs some well-salted subtle hints

Off Basin Road (California, 2013). #photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California

Blonde curls lick your neck You're more wild than a mustang Fleeing rope-burnt hands #haiku #poem #poetry #freeverse

Mayhem rushed is joy deprived #7syllablesentence #poem #poetry

event horizon a strange time to get together #haikufeels