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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social · 5h

This #vss365 is inspired by Aristophanes

The Clouds
The Silicon Valley Sophists work away.
They no longer teach persuasion but predict the next word.
Ask correctly,
and truth will arrive in under three seconds.
The Clouds approve.
They have always preferred things without weight.
Below,
the old world persists: debts, bodies, weather, people saying no.
But the Thinkery is confident.
Reality, they explain, is mostly a prompt-engineering problem.

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 7h

in the evening mushrooms gather to discuss where the circle goes #dailyhaikuprompt #Mushroom and/or #Evening #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 5h

For a #cloud No bigger than a man's hand I watch Westwards But sweet water no longer falls from the West The Atlantic brings us Only a searing sun As do all ways October dust weeps Save me My dear land The trees are dying Their leaves are blowing now on the dry wind My hope is parched #vss365

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 5h

THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE BECAUSE WE MAKE CHOICES WE CAN MAKE BETTER ONES

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Matt Flintoff @flintyflop.bsky.social · 12h

Our daughter Lily, four, has a #cloud she keeps. It followed the car home from Blackpool in June. It sits over the house now and it only rains on the garden, at night. Dad has a lawn he's proud of. He’s not moaned about the weather since, and he’s stopped going on about the hosepipe ban. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 23h

The #bequest of the two headed dragon, cause of the great dispute between the Sisters Taminch and the city worthies, was doomed to remain for ever unresolved. The legendarily quarrelsome heads reached agreement before the sisters, and abandoned the Selestine Park for the northern wild. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tallying up dragon-slaying techniques as depicted by the artworks in the V & A. So far two sculptors think the best method is lance down gullet, and a painter who recommends you wait for it to roll over and get it underneath. Feeling rather sorry for the dragons.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Poetry #Art #Stargazing Then there seem'd A music in the sphere, to charm away The serpent sorrows gnawing at my heart, Till, one by one, they dropp'd their demon hold, And left me, all alone with contemplation, Like thee, to love the stars. - John Howard Payne 🎨 unknown

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clock hands shuddering Tick twenty to nine for hours: Battery's dying #poetry #haiku

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How shall I know WHEN The time is to #purify WHICH Of these things are wrong? What if I TAKE The offering of my evils up and FIND Them accepted as good? If these mirror-lands have upturned my SOUL I will empty out on the ground and scatter away on the WIND purely #vss365 #poetry

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have bought two stacking bookcases. They are currently all over the living room in bits and the books are still everywhere I kind of like my books free-range, until a pile falls over

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Lee Zanello @lima-zulu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of all the things I’d like to #renounce, the need to make everything meaningful is probably the most significant. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't say what to #renounce Or if I can Why would you listen? Instead I'll say Turn towards trees We breathe them Do the things to make trees happy Try it. Bees, rain, Places for seeds to grow Not a long list. They are green and tall Their bark textured like reality Live #Vss365 #poetry

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

equinox— a fox carries the sunset under the hill #haiku #poetry

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am tired Let me merely exist Do not #nurture me I have never seen Such a love that was not also A making A pole to a bean A nipped out shoot to turn a plant Nicely I want to sprawl all over the ground #vss365 #poetry

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd #reckon the rain But the gauge is still empty: Autumn leaves are dry #vss365 ##haiku

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 26/09/2026

If you can catch a hare and look into its eye, you will see the whole world… —Anna Crowe, “A Calendar of Hares” from A SECRET HISTORY OF RHUBARB (Mariscat, 2004) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry annacrowepoet.com/2021/04/21/a...

A Calendar of Hares
Anna Crowe

for Valerie Gillies

1. At the raw end of winter
the mountain is half snow, half
dun grass. Only when snow
moves does it become a hare.

2. If you can catch a hare
and look into its eye,
you will see the whole world.

3. That day in March
watching two hares boxing
at the field’s edge, she felt
the child quicken.

4. It is certain Midas never saw a hare
or he would not have lusted after gold.

5. When the buzzard wheels
like a slow kite overhead
the hare pays out the string.

6. The man who tells you
he has thought of everything
has forgotten the hare.

7. The hare’s form, warm yet empty.
Stumbling upon it, he felt his heart
lurch and race beneath his ribs.

8. Beset by fears, she became
the hare who hears
the mowers’ voices growing louder.

9. Light as the moon’s path over the sea,
the run of the hare over the land.

10. The birchwood a dapple
of fallen gold: a carved hare
lies in a Pictish hoard.

11. Waking to the cry of a hare
she ran and found the child sleeping.

12. November stiffens
into December: hare and grass
have grown a thick coat of frost.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He pokes at the fire with a blackened stick. As it flares, the cavern's gloom drops back a moment. "Hunger," he says, "oh she's cruel, but she's got her ways round her. You do a deal with #hunger, to a point. Peelings, crumbs, and grovel through another day." "Thirst, now. She's a bitch." #Vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you could see the #passion and the fury The roof tiles would lift in rattling crescendo The walls would split open Pillars of ivy To take them writhe and raise Open And keening over all the wind would rise Screeching Beseeching Reaching ever after The skies #vss365

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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the crisis was over before my hands stopped shaking so you held the mug while i drank #2WordPrompt #Crisis #Hence #FreeVerse #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will up upon the lea To the wood that crowns the hill Therein I will settle me Of the sweet air drink my fill Stretch my fingers to the sky Curl my soul into the earth Flourish long and never die Til the green shall leave the turf I'll #embark Gladly so Clad with leaf Bare with snow #vss365

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Wayfarer @wayfarer.chat · 21/09/2026

The trees are all undressed for the harvest, green and hale while birds laze heedless of their appointed itinerary. As if summer, grown fond of warm naps and dewy tumblers, has penciled a #conflict into the reservation book. And autumn waits for some tardy gust to sweep her room ready. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Out of the West you roll and pile Embanked ink black in downpour Your first drops Huge Stipple the concrete steps A touch, a promise #Stormy embrace of Earth And consummation which will birth new green Out of the dry slopes Set the streams to singing After long silence #Vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The world seems hastening to its end The seas burn up, the ice cliffs fall But do not quench my hope, my friend And more than that, oh, far more- all! Consider #Marvell's lusty plea, Though swiftly now the times decay, Embrace no cold despair, for we Together yet may seize the day. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Beyond the boundary of sky The spheres Grind spirals into dust #Explore Their endless brilliant dissolution outward Gravity's strings fly torn And creep at last onward to only night After the end of stars, then, Little ship, Will you spin on unlit Still seeking for an edge? #vss365

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B. Fowler @bfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She was #sustained by deadlines and coffee. This had seemed perfectly reasonable at thirty. At forty, it seemed less like a lifestyle and more like a medical experiment. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Wayfarer @wayfarer.chat · 17/09/2026

Anticipation binds us: the cat crying for dinner to #commence; the cracked riverbed awaiting summer rain. A moment fulfilled complete unbroken. Then empty we begin again. #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A perfect word returns, Yes, I'll #commence Worship of sunlight, moon, Of iris, leaf, Frost, rain, the old rebellion Of the overwriting years - All in their transit All in their decay Return, begin, return And pass away ##vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"They're perfectly ripe." Meredith cupped the first plum and twisted it gently from its stem. 'Leave them, Meredith. It's passed. They're coming. Witchcraft is illegal. We have to go.' 'Just a #moment, Lynn. You grab our familiars and the bags. I'm not wasting these. They're perfect.' #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I move #small things A leaf without a breeze A hair across your face to brush aside - a slip of anger into your gut The rippling of that wrath I slide glassware on it Smash it in walls, mirror and magnify Fear flowers Sweet gulp in my gullet Chairs hurl so you Flee And I drink silence #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In CAPITAL letters To disguise the writing Or make hate plain #someone Dunno who Person Angry-bitter-poison-destroyer Wrecking-crowbar-crosshair kisser Wrote AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN To you Bin Burn Report (You know you ought) Hope they're caught I'll hold you and sharpen my pen #vss355

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Oh my beloved, you are fading The #strait to the past grows wider And on that distant shore, the turtle-dove is calling The willow warbler pours song Golden sparks of light fly from time's whetstone The future is all I can clutch Be a bridge, days, Be a hope Bring the birds home singing #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Did this wall create the idea of Scotland and England? Or was that already there? Or did it come later? Is it a brutal imposition on the landscape? An adornment to the crags of the Whin Sill? I let all that swim in and out of focus while I admired its survival and how damn steep it is.

A landscape view - Hadrian's Wall winds its way into this distance over moorclad hills and crags under a clouded sky

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I am so glad when people put subtitles on their videos. I infinitely prefer my videos on mute with subtitles. There's something about an unmuted video which sets off my 'making a phone call' panic. Printed words are so much - quieter.

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

When words #splinter in the heart Do not withdraw them The shaft is intended The damage is everything Flat triptych angels Joy, Sorrow, Hope Are little enough in gesso Now you bleed the tears of conmingling And that pain is richness #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

#Sunbeam magnified in the empty house Finds wood under the dust Smoke creeps Across the cup-marked desk and catches The first pile of old bills Licks at the peeling damask of the walls Assails the beams and vanquishes the damp for ever Pyre for the old man Who clung here So long #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The Wizard Gardener's Invocation By spade and by rake and harrow, May I suffer no slug, weed and sparrow On a great pile of muck To the size of a truck I summon a prize-winning #marrow! #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Storm cave under the sea mountain A slew of seal-skins Heaped Did you think Only for human mem The #selkies transform Here Secret in earth-rind Beaching Water embraces water Skein in skein All you who yearn To melt In a lover's body You hold A shadow of this sea #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Oh I have sought her The Lady of this Land In the springing verges The stoop of the oak And I know The tongue in which I might have called to her Is lost long since Sunk in pools and marshes Where reeds blow My cry for its scattered words that bonedeep loss It might have called #hiraeth #vss365

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Robert Kett. A man from the middle class who declared he had been wrong and became the leader of a workers' rebellion for common rights. Ever heard of him?

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Alex D @alexdwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It is Limerick Day, I have found, A verse that is justly renowned - So let everyone here Raise a glass to old Lear, With his birds and his beards all around! #nationallimerickday

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Memory is a room where the furniture has teeth. Sit carefully. #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #fieldnotes

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