Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social · 2hCold tides drag me out Drifting on the open sea Where no birds will fly Exiled by the tribe Condemned a social outcast A lazaretto island #vss365 #island #tanka 172
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15David Middleham @dmiddleham.bsky.social · 1hthat lone island that dreams always of the sea and her every horizon whilst she will only ever be truly in love with the sky #vss365 #island 073
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 1hThe inner world is peaceful Despite the real world outside Proving the opposite #VSS365 island #VSSDaily blur #VSSMagic rid #Emoetry vindictive (eh, vengeance…) 042
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 1hOut of a tempest and off. The world is still spinning, and you have to navigate the coast that way. That's how you find the island that at low tide isn't one. A state of the art road flows to the walled city. Someone sees you with your boat on your back and screams. #horrorprompt #vss365 #islands 032
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 1hshe deploys her spend thrift clothes spinning atop an island of bell-bottom corduroys; her price tag shows, cost of admission paired with her mint gemstone alloys. charmed rack (full poem) formulateinfinity.net/2026/08/07/c... #vss365 #island #poetryformulateinfinity.netcharmed rack – Formulate Infinity 163
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15King's Raconteur @kingsraconteur.bsky.social · 39mParanoia seeks those hidden thoughts and dark clues. For this is eye land. #vss365 #micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry #emoetry #haiku #dailyhaikuprompt #island 052
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The Rookery @crowslight.bsky.social · 39mThe heart And souls Of the Dischanted islanders Up for grabs Tribalism, Lost in A giant Man hole The Trihord And Their third eyes A prison of Their devices #vss365 #island 032
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Venus Kii Thomas @goddexxvenuskii.bsky.social · 38mmy world has multitudes of elemental #islands where the ocean calms the sands ground the sun warms and the air frees and they all work together trusting the harmony trusting the communities within me to surrender to marvelous rhythms. #vss365 #poetry #writingcommunity #erotica 062
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15beth death & the slay-belles @dumb-belles.bsky.social · 2h#vss365 #island In her chest, a chest, her heart bound, padlocked no-one's treasure but her own she is an island no cartographer will find, nor look for she thinks of bikini atoll somewhere there is a concrete island of nuclear waste, abandoned and the sea is rising and the concrete is cracking 0115
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 3h#vss365 The visions Bespelled A mirage My house an #island Waves splashing the deck The witch far exceeded My ability to deflect Her arrows My dog barked Trees appeared My deck chairs The barbecue Spells taking space Filing through my mind I closed my eyes But she was there too 0132
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Ashe Taylor @phantomashes.bsky.social · 3hforced to abide, the shiny peach grew bitter. disdaining touch, it dreamt of an island haven where no one could find or taste from it again #vss365 0102
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Jape Paradox @japeparadox.bsky.social · 3h#vss365 on an #island that started as a raft there's timber at its core the river back up into a lake with wildlife on its shore nature rared back & laughed then along came an engineer corps now the levee is 3 stories high the lake has gone bone dry & the island is no more 0102
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 3hLady Free of the Exile #isle, Who wore solitude like a smile, She traded thrones for tide, Found peace no crown could guide, And waved empire off with a single mile. #vss365 082
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 2hOn an #island where free souls remain, No fences, no crowns, and no chain, They watch the tide swell, And listen so well, To wind teaching peace through the rain. #vss365 083
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social · 2hWhen the storm of her unexpected heritage quieted, Anna felt herself on an island, not of exile, but of clarity. The letters had carried her here, to a place where she could rethink all she thought she knew about her family. #vss365 0143
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 2h#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like being EVERYONE on Gilligan's #Island: as smart as the Professor, as good as MaryAnn, as attention-grabbing as Ginger, as assured as Mr. Howell, as proper as Lovey, as forbearing as the Skipper & as enthusiastic as Gilligan. 152
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 2h#BraveWrite #vss365 #tanka #haiku #Poetry #Sail #harbor #island a #harbor within that docks all my memories when I die they’ll #sail out to sea and set us free on your heart’s #island remember~me for you were a wave far more than any ripple my tribe~oh sweet family youtu.be/h0K9jxmFMNo?si… 4235
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 2hToday's #vss365 prompt is #island. I've already written my bit for today but I am reminded of a lost story I wrote set in my Caveat Emptor shop. It was about a woman who needed a map of the tropical islands in Ohio. My narrator sold her the map and then thanked god HE didn't have to go there. + 141
David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 4hAlone and far away from the hands of father empire, they built freedom and seeded chaos in its wake. Today, your #vss365 #prompt is #island. 0176
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15irae @monkirae.bsky.social · 21hLove is like riding paper boats in lava streams Scorching, hot, Powering through on sails of sheets, briefs, and lingerie Driven by harsh breaths, sighs, and exhales #vss365 #sail 0102
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 06/10/2026hellscape raise the ghost #sail, death’s come ashore; plague of bodies, permeate the devil’s morgue deck hands hail, let down skeletal oars; lethal lobotomies, inseminate the blackened bourg fiendish farewell, from the corpses’ corps; ruinous abnormalities, ruminate the forsaken shore #vss365formulateinfinity.nethellscape – Formulate Infinity 1233
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like having a #sail *and* an engine for your boat: it takes twice as much time to learn how to use both correctly, and twice as much time to maintain both, and you *still* might end up having to *row* the damned thing. 0112
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Mary and her Typos @msamios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026 #vss365 #prompt #hurricane a matter of course i became nothing but dross when your hurricane blew through the locus of my small life. You tore down the nests that sheltered me and carried me away. You dropped me by the side of the road crumpled, torn, without a backward glance. 10-05-2026 192
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Jess @js-hyder.bsky.social · 18hI call your name; a whispered word sails on the breeze. Unheard and broken by the distance it must travel. The silent wave brushes your lips, unheeded. You will never know my final breath was given just for you. #vss365 #sail 0142
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Jane @jcm444.bsky.social · 18hthe wind filling my sails to move me the storm keeping me humble the star-filled sky the compass guiding me the vessel the water the waves the ocean the shore the harbor the whole journey you are all of it everything #sail #vss365 2214
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15MuederKrieger @muederkrieger.bsky.social · 18ha groan within the fading hurricane; goodbye! #DailyHaikuPrompt #groan #vss365 #hurricane #InkMine #goodbye #Senryu #micropoetry #micropoem #Halloween #spooky 072
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Lorinda J. Taylor @termitewriter.bsky.social · 18hLong ago their Seer’s predecessor had taken a vision in which a great steaming stone had #sailed across the sky, spitting out the words, The time is new … Even here in this ancient place so far away, that vision had been presented to them. #vss365 0102
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Lorinda J. Taylor @termitewriter.bsky.social · 18h“It is a strange craft that you #sail, with those spars across your Eye-Nest pole and Mother-Eyes upon your prow, to say nothing of the head of a monster going before you! And a bireme! We have taken tales of those, but no citizen living today in No’chet has ever seen one!” #vss365 0162
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Lorinda J. Taylor @termitewriter.bsky.social · 18h“I say we head west for at least a day’s #sailing. The wind is holding easterly and the tek’a| [“sail”] will take us out quickly. If we do not come to any land after a day, we will furl the wind-catcher, turn around, and row back. How lost can we get?” #vss365 0132
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#vss365 #horrorprompt #vsshorror 1/2👇 An old harbours pale moon lights over its ships & the horrors writhing within. The heart squeezes tight, fear takes its hold as the creatures within, begin to unfold. 25111
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15A s p e n🕊️©️(AspenBrave®️™️) @aspenbrave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#BraveWrite #vss365 #WIPㅤ #AmWriting #Script “Normal is a mirage. The only 'normal' is the setting on a washing machine. I'm not going to apologize for surviving my share of life's storms & pouring rain. For the most part, I AM 'sunny with blue skies'-but beware- so is the eye of a #hurricane.” 46112
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 22hTattered of sail, she Emerged from the fog, listless On the dead waters. #vss365 #sail #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity 3496
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The Rookery @crowslight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The ship Roams the Broken Hearts Of The White Dwarf's Far flung Spinning globes Their sails Patched In black tides Of treason They sing The echoes Of Treasure From a Captain's Cosmic plunder Tinker boy, Marvels At the Constellation's wonder #vss365 #sail 0264
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hand me down that tool, Let me have a #crack instead. Watch me make a mark; Step aside and let me try, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 show you how it's done. 🪓 ✨ #WSS366 #DailyPrompt #Tanka #PoetrySky #FiveLines #MicroPoem #TakeAChance #WritingCommunity #MicroWritingstatic.klipy.comTina Fey's Maniacal Axe LaughAlt: Tina Fey's Maniacal Axe Laugh 1132
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 20hshrouded in darkness lapped in a swirl of light I sail across the midnight sky looking for the parts of me the hurricane scattered away I have searched every shore but the only place I have not looked is the eye #Vss365 #Sail #Poetry #AcrylicOnCanvas #ECK my 🎨 4679
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Natalie Reilly-Johnson @natalierj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Don’t worry, she’ll understand,” Lyn told Pauline yesterday when she said she couldn’t attend Carol’s WI meeting. This must be how that weather forecaster felt after reassuring the British public there’d be no #hurricane. “Sorry, Pauline,” she mumbled over the howling. #vss365 0196
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 06/10/2026inspired 🙏 writing + image. bsky.app/profile/gwil... 041
David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It started as a black smear and grew into a monster. A ghost ship needed no sail. It wasn't moved by wind or anything natural. What drove it most of all was greed and a desire for mayhem. Today, your #vss365 #prompt is #sail 37629
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15L.D. Tudge @dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk · 05/10/2026#Hurricanes are, by nature—though the reader, I expect, already knows this. However, there are times when the whole business of wind getting thoroughly above itself could be more assertively bridled. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #emoetry #poets #blueskypoetry 0124
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Lizzy Perkins @lizzyjperkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nana! She races towards me flinging her arms around my waist then drags me to the garden to play football and imaginary games like running across the grass arms outstretched like a plane I’m caught up in her vortex she’s a #hurricane #vss365static.klipy.comAnimated Girl RunningALT: Animated Girl Running 2196
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Katherine Traverse @kattra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026poll is live! #vss365 crowd, please consider my interactive story~ today: what? all the players are in one place? wonder how long that’s gonna last…👀 *cross-posted on the Bird🐦Site (same username/pinned post) *this is the best place to read the story from the start~💖 082
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“’Tis true I’ve butterflies inside my roly-poly belly.” BREAKING: THE HURRICANE’S NOW PREDICTABLY SPIRALING <yawn stifled> TOWARD THE HEART OF THE MILKY WAY. IT’S UNEXPECTED TO HIT BEFORE CHAOS IS ORDERED. “Shush, guys! Beat slower, will ya? Y’all remember the equation?” #vss365 #hurricane #Oulens 0265
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Linda St. Vincent John @lindasvj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026just wondering why did the rose garden disappear did a flash #hurricane wash it away i recall now it was demolished & replaced with a concrete slab for entertainment purposes by the elite #vss365 #poetry #writing 2286
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The Rookery @crowslight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I want You in laughter And the Tears of Us getting Silly I want You happy, Smiling With everthing We dressed up Homely and Frilly Me, Escaping This hurricane, I only require Your words I want their Peace, Thats always Been yours To give Then, We get silly And frilly #vss365 #hurricane 1114
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15Igor Namus @igornamus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Piter closed the door and rushed to the next. “Judge Uller, it is not a natural #hurricane. Coastguard captain sent a warning about it. A volcano has erupted.” Uller increased his pace. “There are no volcanoes here.” Piter pulled open the door to cellars. “There is now.” #vss365 041
David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Me too. Must be in its code but as long as it's not doing anything weird, it's fine. 010
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15The 6th Jack'o'lantern Monster @the6thjm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#vss365 #FirstLine Being Chief Conjurer of Oldbridge, Massachusetts, is like watching people prepare for a #hurricane which might come close: some board up their houses if it gets a little windy, others stand outside making "content," and everybody buys way too many loaves of bread. 082
David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That is great. I'm glad I helped. 000
Reposted by David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026She rises on A #Hurricane Of knowing, Contained within A primal squall, An ancestral spectre Come to carry You home, With salt in her hair And truth on Her skin - This is not the end; She's the fierce roar Of renewal Where you begin. #VSS365 #Writing #Poetry 15112
