Mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon July 13, 2026 Weekly #Prompt - EXIT FLASH CONUNDRUM VIVID PASTEL CATASTROPHE ** please! No AI ** **no AI words photos or art** post with hashtag: #inkMine

Donna Brook

Stillness, until, becoming the night-breeze, everything.

orange to indigo, I’m burning this evening down & drift with the sinking horizon #haiku

I’M OVER THE MOON!!! My book, the improbability of sea monkeys, was awarded third place (haibun) in the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards! I am profoundly grateful to judges, Michele Root-Bernstein and Michael Henry Lee and am honoured to stand alongside such a stellar cast of poets.🙏

this poem feels like second best it's here because I could not think of a better one #kyoka #5lines TV from the next room I refresh my screen looking for "likes" #senryu her sadness seems trivial again -- this burning world #senryu too

greenwhite butterfly yourself and the thought of you from bindweed flowers

💙🌸 by Andrea Cohen

Baby seal. LaJolla, CA. 🦑🌿🦭

dentist visit orange vanilla tooth polish I am nine again in summer, chin and fingers sticky eating a Dreamsicle #tanka #5lines Published: Bright Stars 2, An Organic Tanka Anthology M. Kei, Editor

Breaking news: A broad-winged hawk has been spotted hunting in the area. We go to the blue jays for their reaction to this development. Blue jays: "No, no! No, no! Go away! Go away!"

When people say that there is a bias against conservatives in places like the Times that reflects their failure to understand that the Times (like many university spaces) lowers standards to represent right-wing views for purposes of intellectual diversity.

sunflowers the hum of orbiting bees #haikufeels (orbit) #haiku

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

On Medium, I've met cool people and published some stuff I like, but the best literary reading I've found is a publication dedicated to African writers in English. It is not a "Medium" publication, both because it's not paywalled and also because it's not amateur. Enjoy! medium.com/@kalaharirev...

the nighttime roar of a wild sea won't you come with me and help me find all the shattered pieces of the moon #poem

tilting its head to the blue liquid mirror a lone swan

#completethehaiga 159 #prompt #haiga #haiku #senryu #tanka

Squished and solid piece of ancient ocean 🌊

on the path a patch of light from her window #haiku

adorned with the blue jewels of the lake the swan glides out of the fog #UnknownFairyTales

Photographing living cats was perfectly possible from the late Victorian era onward. There was no technical limitation that would lead one to conclude that the cats in my older photos must be taxidermied. www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/...

the orbit of dandelion seeds another galaxy #haikufeels #haiku

My cat’s head appears around the drainpipe – a mouse between her jaws, dead or playing dead. She trots up the steps and onto the porch. She sits. “Morality,” she says, “is a construct, stupid!” She kills the mouse. Then, miraculously, she brings it back to life.

twilight the cat wakes for dinner #haiku

#haiku the cat pries you from the book

sunny day shadows gently move the cat #senryu #micropoetry

#art Emilie Mediz-Pelikan #haiku #micropoem sea buckthorn #resist

two crows on the blue wings open to everything wind harps the barbules

Rayner Unwin’s referee report on The Hobbit, written when his father Stanley Unwin gave it to him and asked whether it should be published. He was paid a shilling for it. My favorite part is the way that Unwin, aged 10 at the time, makes it clear that this is a book for children younger than him.

shining softly among the plants another little lamp #haiku

‘I’m not afraid of dying any more’: comedian Eric Lampaert on his amnesia – and the memories he was happy to lose

somewhere a prayer for the good whispering pines #senyru #senyrusunday

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity. As Big Tech goes all-in on AI to accelerate its feature pipelines, the disrespect for users that's baked into these systems naturally scales up with it. Now it has reached the breaking point.

In today's Small Good Deeds headlines, I used a toy butterfly net to catch a wayward honeybee that had found its way into the studio and release it back into the great outdoors. What was a recent Small Good Deed of yours?

wildflowers~ i'll show you these when you come visit #haiku

Take the journey. Pick up your copy of Vanished Roads today. Buy it here www.wolftwin.com/product-page... #haiku #poetry #books

hot sunday~ the hammock occupied #haiku

late light creeping over rock and trees, reaching for the shimmering sea, white triangles, sailing out into the boundless blue - zu Salz und Tang trag mich, Sehnsucht seewärts #haiku #micropoetry #poetry to salt and seaweed take me, longing seabound an incantation shanty for #senryusunday

Rag men. The guys who collected old rags to be made into paper. I bet they have stories. Gutties. Women who gut the fish - my whole maternal line until my grandmother Chamber maids. They'd have all the inside gossip

Jane Hirshfield from The October Palace #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

last frost— crabapple blossoms sting my fingers #haiku #micropoem #poem #vss365

alternatively: cicadas the buzz of immortality #HaikuNuggets

I just published a microfiction dedicated to anyone who has ever given a conference paper. medium.com/microcosm/th...

#SenryuSunday doing my own research ChatGPT on the toilet

#SenryuSunday faster than light the darkness within

how young her doctors and poets are becoming #senryu inspired by following a poet whose profile picture looks barely out of braces to 65-year-old me.