Waiting for the ache to burst It pinches Like Pins beneath my skin Like Stitches pulled up Too tight Final meal Dead ink Dried into flakes Like Broken asphalt Like Crows in judgment Perched between my teeth, waiting Waiting for the ache to burst #Vss365 #ache #writing #blueskypoets

Next Friday! #fragmentsfriday #poetry #poetic #micropoem #prompts #writingprompts

She woke up angry North wind through the cherry trees Paths pink with petals #DailyHaikuPrompt (North wind)

cold North wind finding all the drafts in the house #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt

you are far away in every sense distant I shiver into sunrise it hangs from my bones warmth tailor made for someone else I see her, smiling and you're smiling too there are elvers in my #blood swimming upstream hope runs through me leaks out through my colander heart #Vss365 #blueskypoets

He sat with the pain made peace with the wound found a temporary escape wound in bandages of smoke #Vss365 #wound #blueskypoets

too much sunlight on the photographs she still sees the smiles though the faces are faded bleached away the forgotten son weeps silently for his mother separated by an obfuscation of reality #Vss365 #obfuscate #WritingCommunity #blueskypoets #writingprompts

On the whisper of a zephyr came fragments of a cypher as I pieced it back together its message became clear— he called to me upon the wind and I replied in kind— a message sent in secret code, a kiss encrypted on the breeze— my heartfelt answer, to all the love he send to me. #sensewrds 177

pack some heat, they say as if I could fit fire into my luggage #haikufeels #haiku

crayon in my hand gloam lingers in my small room he claps after dark #7syllablesentence [gloam] #prompt #haiku

#vss365 #quiver

your eyes twin moons, waning will you still consider me when the sandman comes... #Vss365 #wane #WritingCommunity #smallpoems #writingprompts #BlueSkyPoets

how readily the welcome words to weapons do change the throat from wellspring to loaded quiver the heart protected seen now as prey for jealousy knows no gentle way #Vss365 #quiver #writingprompt #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets

see me my legs ache from standing in this nowhere knees shake weak with ligament strain I am at the cusp of collapse send me a few rays from a breaking dawn a trickling rill to ease the dry before I'm reduced to still I don't need much but I'm at an edge don't want to fall from this ledge #vss365

Light hits wrong. Sound crowds in. Breath stutters. Jaw locks. Thoughts scrape, won’t line up. Walls lean. Time skips. On the #cusp of insanity, balance thins. Stillness holds. Movement feels louder. #vss365 #prompt #poetry #writing #poet #poem

how should I feel toes upon the #cusp eyes searching a flawless sky for a dragonfly or a lost balloon ought I offer my neck to the violet scent of it or my hands to the pinecones and peppermints on offer a step either way could bring ruin rose tinted perhaps it may be #Vss365 #BlueSkyPoets

your name inked on a #slip of paper in my finest hand in your absence I am resigned to holding you thusly sometime between the bluebells and the fall of blossoms we will meet again a #ruse to placate the heart sorely burdened with sticking plasters #Vss365 #WritingCommunity #BlueSkyPoets

a drizzle of honey the touch of her breath smooth against his neck, the soft perfection of simple moments like these #Vss365 #drizzle #writingprompt #BlueSkyPoets

under slate grey skies wind sculpted hawthorns #bend sparse leaved and thorn laden like dark witches wizened by the weather like dark stories whispered low at the hearth and yet it is here in the harshness of nature where I am uplifted #unmoored at last from expectations #Vss365 #BlueSkyPoets

sparrow on the fence— the whole morning fits in her chest #haiku #poetry

murmur of starling wings the dusk beautified with art in motion beneath cathedral skies I sleep, dreamlessly #Vss365 #murmur #writingprompts #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Hello Wild Walk #writers Sorry for my silence yesterday, I am in Cardiff for the weekend. (And sorry for the delay with this prompt. Fuzzy guy #Bumble Use the image/word to inspire your writing, then post with #WildWalkPrompt #prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #nature #5amwritersclub

one heartfelt wish to stargaze by his side the ocean ruffling pebbles in search of hidden treasure his presence no more than an imprint a memory sinking into wet sand #Vss365 #heartfelt #WritingPrompts

A soft #murmur against breathless lips Electricity tingling fingertips Gasping for air in sweet little sips Calm implodes—the moon dips #vss365 #poetry

Thank you for dappling my day with your incredible talent! Your #vss365 #prompt for Jan. 18 is #murmur Song: Stella by Starlight by Ella Fitzgerald Song lyrics: “The #murmur of a brook at eventide. That ripples through a nook where two lovers hide.” youtu.be/xDQ-Erg3KlQ?...

a hint of you and I'm falling wide awake into dappled dreams you smile and suddenly I'm all softened edges my fault lines smudged and blended from charcoal into gold #Vss365 #dappled #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets

July morning soft breezes stir dancing through window lace in the back yard a bath full of noise and fluster full of birds midday sun rounds the bend clears the trees sears a landing strip on yellowing grass the bubbles in her lemonade begin to self destruct #Vss365 #sear #BlueSkyPoets

what if our lips ceased to speak of the weather crushed instead as wave upon rock unstoppable in motion what if we explored all the pathways illuminated by a moon drenched kiss #poetry #blueskypoets

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Next week’s TopTweetTuesday prompt - a highly imagistic narrative based on a children’s story or fairytale. Let the imagery dominate over the narrative. Ensure metaphors dominate over prosaic language and rhetoric. Make it inventive, not cliched. Make up two new words at least. 100 words max!

the edge of a pond petals of frost softening winter peony

in pictures that ask for my lips, in music you shared as the baring of your soul, in words of love to me, I let them slide across my skin laving my body I spend my time lost in these abstractions it's all I have, but more the hunger for the real of your touch, is a claw to this soft heart #vss365

- words fade into birdsong; my heart succumbs to their lyric, i have found my locus, here, where love is no longer an abstraction, but instead, a meadow of wildflowers, thick with pollen and color unbounded. - #poetry #vss365

New #FaeSense #prompt Let yourself be inspired by the sounds of the sea See #alt-text in replies. Have fun creating! 🌊🌊🌊

quiet nights, all the spaces just for breathing, I need you

a new fortune each kiss priceless #inkMine #sixwords #fortune

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Jan 02, 2026 Weekend #Prompt - FORTUNE (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine

golden plover hidden among the stones a clutch of eggs #DailyHaikuPrompt plover

new year's slow start by the cold water's edge shorebirds searching #DailyHaikuPrompt (plover)

"Abstraction of Love" I am a song Slowed down Taking in moment Sharing simple love A ripple moved A touch in time Dancing with stars Every step found Over a golden lawn Each leaf falls A sparkle in dawn An #abstraction of love #vss365

secrets kept from the all-seeing moon memories of us forever tender in my heart #poetry

in conversation his mind ripens shifting the grayscale towards abstraction from his perspective a plethora of colourways come suddenly into view my admiration glows like a warm squeeze of honey feeding my hummingbird heart #Vss365 #abstraction #BlueSkyPoets #WritingCommunity #writingprompts

I imagine us understanding passion our fire rising from a smoulder of soft kisses #poetry

a flutter, building in the back of my throat, irrepressible a slow transition into sound melodious sighs, slip from moistened lips a song of you sung in private my rhapsody of pure delight #Vss365 #delight #poetrylovers #writingprompts #BlueSkyPoets

after the long day dusk on our shoulders you hold me like a shawl remnants of a dream curled, feather-soft smoothing harsh angles into art nouveau curves #vss365 #dream #BlueSkyPoets

you say later, another day believing this perfect moment can be placed on hold replicated at will I fall back into elements roots, birds, flames, oceans you carve a flute from indifference I conjour a symphony out of thin #air #vss365 #writingprompts

a thought, cast into movement.... curiosity firing all senses away.... away.... free and unstoppable as water breaking through a dam carrying me, all and all far from the weight of stagnant air #vss365 #air #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets

we carry the words so very far to leave them unspoken and yet, here they are whisky blended dissolving, as ice against the grain #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets

Moon in Capricorn The impetus for change Second only to a need for closure Saturn's sickle Clearing away deadwood Back to the roots I nurture the soil And sow afresh once more #vss365 #Saturn #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoets