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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

there is much to believe or not believe but divine along August fields at Peckham farm Queen Anne’s lace more in bloom perhaps than ever in my short life #vss365 #divine

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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the big oak in front of my little house needed more than fertile soil to bloom shade an acorn cracked 114 years ago by the rings sad she and so much more has had to go #vss365 #fertile

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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

summer broad as wild grape leaves luscious brine on the breeze our unripened fruit skins still taut exquisite surprise to see them vined on sugaring days of short August #vss365 #fruit

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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

another morning to tend to the chicory and the goldfinches flitting in thick August air nothing more #vss365 #tend

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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

we have our silly human debates over creation and such but among the tanned grasses the bursting thistle and the cream of Queen Anne’s Lace we can agree what summer is #vss365 #creation

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💘Beth C Greenberg✍️ Cupid's Fall series 📚 @bethcgreenberg.com · 01/08/2026

Welcome to the Garden of Eden, birthplace of our epic human story. They say forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. Haven't we all been drawn to something - or some𝑜𝑛𝑒 - off limits? Your #vss365 #prompt for August 1, 2026 is #temptation Do with it what you must! 😉

Close-up of ripe figs on a ficus carica tree, surrounded by the same lush leaves Adam and Eve used to cover up after tasting the forbidden fruit.
Photo by Jessica Hyde

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Matthew Pritt @matthewtpritt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The important thing was finally realizing it was over. You knew already, but you stayed anyway. Because you still loved me enough to let me take the scenic route to where we were heading, whispering in my ear, “Turn here,” so when I #arrived, I’d know deep down it’s what I wanted too. #vss365

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 her every #arrival was a gift - a gift unappreciated until her departure

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Vicente L Ruiz 🍏📜🎲🌓 @vicentelruiz.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

"Back in the day, I used to work two #shifts back-to-back. I was young and thought I could, yet I could see I forgot things." "And now?" "I can barely stand one single shift, I keep forgetting things, plus now I'm older." #VSS365

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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When peace arrived, it didn’t enter me, 𝑖𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒, as salt inhabits every wandering sea. #vss365

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 every day, on every street a package will #arrive into the hands of someone who ordered hope in a cardboard box

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 #Nature #Song the storm-show will #arrive with drumroll-thunder spotlight-ning, rain-songs and wet-earth applause

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King's Raconteur @kingsraconteur.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

To truly arrive you do not need to travel. Simply be present. #vss365 #arrival #haiku #spiritual

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Brooksie C. Fontaine @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Birds and bats and colorful, jewel-like insects #descend in a rainbow of thoughts. It's a brainstorm, an inundation of ideas, of information. When they take flight again, I'm left with a rainbow of scattered feathers. I hope to rebuild a fraction of what they showed me. #vss365

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Brooksie C. Fontaine @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Broomstick-riding in the summer is a special kind of pleasure. A warm #tailwind lifts me up over the landscape, the napping green giants between the emerald hills, birds like jewels, gold in the air. The sea glitters white, but beneath its surface is deep, blue magic. #vss365

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ange belle @angebelle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

. we went through something and found out things about ourselves understanding each other in certain ways, we were obsessed— our bond tight touching in otherworldly ways like the wetness of rain, blackness of night #vss365 #poetry

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 #TheWanderingAphorist Every #arrival at, is a departure from.

An abstract, black and white sketch of a man walking under the stars

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Elvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 #BlackHumor empty street, midnight under a flickering lamp its shadow arrives before the black cat does a little joke Night makes to keep itself amused

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Gemma Mira Wiseman @gemma77.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

the stories of youth may archive but sudden recall may be evident when wrinkles #arrive #vss365 #tanka

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A.C.Juniper @acjuniper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#vss365 #arrive "No judgement," he said. "Please do," I responded, "I trust you, and I have not yet arrived."

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B.C. Freeman @bcpf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Real talk (for a kid turned 18) Sometimes, without really knowing why, I want to die. Want nonexistence One with everything & none the same Forgetting that there's time for that pre/post. So thank you, kid-- You lighthouse sign For to the shore For to the shore Arrive alive. #vss365 #arrive

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D.C. Swanson @dcswanson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The ghosts I know do not appear as misty forms that conjure fear. Instead, my ghosts #arrive at night to ask, in dreams, if I’m all right. #vss365

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Maria A. Perez @mariaaperezauthor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Father #arrive-s and gathers us in the kitchen. “Children, remember how we talked about what is happening on our planet?” I clearly had not paid enough attention. At my young age, I am not so concerned with Aranda’s current events. “Aliens are meddling in our affairs." #vss365

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Migs @ominoushallways.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

fear arrives with the winter wind dancing on memories of fireflies trembling under blood-soaked moons above the bleached wildfire meadows the coal-dusted crows return slowly they cackle, sensing death in the air the sound deafens and deadens senses we all die crawling to safety #vss365 #vssdaily

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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And love, once true, for no more distance strives, Already home, and yet each dawn arrives. #vss365

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lab reports @danhawkley.dev · 01/08/2026

#vss365 🚥 #arrive The day I arrive is the last day of the month. This last day begins with a very short story named Leo A, or The Sidewalk Rabbit. In a zodiac language invented by my lifestyle, not by calendar days, The Sidewalk Rabbit will not shut down at five. What she will do is survive. 🐇

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Heath Laws @likethecandybar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Day #arrives slowly Moon hands baton to the sun A daily passage #vss365 #writingcommunity

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

How to Get from Here to a Future Arrive Refreshed, Remember, In Voting, Every American’s Responsibility; Register, Impeccably Verify, Elect. #tHartigan #vss365 #arrive

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vss365hq.bsky.social @vss365hq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

CURRENT PROMPT HOST The #vss365 host for August 1-15 is: @bethcgreenberg.com Prompts will drop at 1100 GMT (UTC) Follow Beth, if you haven’t already!

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Leland Lydecker @lelandlydecker.com · 01/08/2026

The #descent from the highs of life is like the uncontrolled dive of a plane that's lost all engines– you try with all your strength to pull the nose up, to level out and #coast to a smooth landing, but you have no thrust and no #brake. You're going down. You probably won't #arrive alive. #vss365

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Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"I have fin'lly arrived," said an actor. (From success, she vowed, naught would distract her.) She appeared stardom-bound, But alas, she soon found Dueling egos a life-changing factor. #vss365 #Arrive #Acting #Careers #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Poetry #MicroPoetry #Writing #BlueskyPoets #Poems

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Just Lucrezia @jkh107.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I will arrive when my feet stop moving, when my breath escapes in a sigh, and I smell my mother’s cooking and hear her voice on a golden afternoon. #vss365 #arrive

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Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Barely managing to squeeze in a poem before your month-long tenure ends, @andyperrincycling.bsky.social. Looks like it was an amazing run. Better late than never. #vss365 #prompt #arrive

The Akashic Archive

I arrive as I depart,
skin glistening and translucent
stretched and wrinkled, wet and red,
blooded from the goddess’ womb;
her mythic mouth open
to birth another life.

I am an ink blot on the page,
a dust mote on the shelf of light.
I drift on the crepuscular stream,
cosmic corpuscle illuminating
ancient spines.
Together, we are billions of beating hearts
forged in a cauldron of blood and stars.
Together, we turn the cosmic pages;
light falls in ciphers.

– Gayle J. Greenlea

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Punk Rock Kilgore Trout @pkrt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Upon #arrival on Hedonia V, you will be welcomed with a two hour massage-- Ooh, that sounds nice. Followed by a #healing kale smoothie from the planet's organic-- Wait, what? Kale?? What about the hookers and blow? Oh, you're thinking of Hedonia VI. That's it, I'm out. #vss365 #scififri

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The rift in the planet's atmosphere would have to be mended or healed as the denizens portrayed it. The scientists claimed to have devised a way to accomplish it in order to preserve all the life on the orb. They awaited the the arrival of the critical element. #Scififri #vss365

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💘Beth C Greenberg✍️ Cupid's Fall series 📚 @bethcgreenberg.com · 31/07/2026

Golf pro: "It's not how you drive. Golf's all about how you #arrive." Claimed one of his pupils Who didn't have scruples, "I'm early on every par five." ⛳ #vss365 #limerick #limerickoftheday #writersofbluesky

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Shorthand Missile @mcleansix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"We'll #arrive when we arrive." Dad just couldn't say the normal dad thing like, "We'll get there when we get there." He made everything sound like a Zen koan. I hated it when I was a teen-ager, screamed at him just to talk straight. God, I miss it now. #vss365 #flashfiction

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Maple Rodin @palindrometry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

CORRUPTION "adore a door ajar, a rival's arrival, a greed agreed, about a bout, around a round, a bid allowed, a loud adieu" -- #vss365 #arrive

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scoopskie.bsky.social @scoopskie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Sometimes in my mind A thought, a conclusion Original or otherwise I’ll arrive to in delusion Forgetting where I’d begun What started the question Standing solidly in quicksand Drowning in this illusion Of knowing I’m right #vss365 #arrive #blueskypoetry

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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#vss365 Whoever wrote, "It is better to travel hopefully than to #arrive" evidently had never experienced Ryanair.

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Ryanair Plane Landing on Wet Runway

ALT: Ryanair Plane Landing on Wet Runway

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𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I want to dissappear I'm never alone I'm alone all the time I want to hit The wheel #brake & #arrive in an Unknown space Where my name Isn't a memory But a rebirth Where my existence Is irrelevant yet relative To the ends That justify my means I'm the blank canvas That I know best #vss365

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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When it’s all over, and you #arrive at the calm lip of a new and patient sea, remember the heart-openers, how soft; the dog’s muddy ear, a bat’s lemniscate, the greengage. The fanning lines from their eyes, sunlike rays you touched. To remember life this way is to greet a great dream. #vss365

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Rachel Nel @redsaid1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For months, I saw a chaplain and CNO arrive at other homes and heard the wails. Now that they're outside my house, I will not open the door. #vss365 #vss #arrive

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#vss365 #arrive Heather dressed her best and laid out out the hors d'oeuvres and smoothed the table clothes and adjusted the lampshades just so. She waited for her guests to arrive. By nine o'clock, the only one to scratch at the door was the neighborhood stray, meowing for food. Letting ...

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February Grace @februarygrace.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

eternity seems a shorter wait than the final moments before you arrive The #vss365 #prompt for July 31, 2026 is #arrive.

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