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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 5h
#Hurricane blew  in with a  laugh quite remorseless,   She snatched up the picnics and plans and a porch, of course,   Tossed vows with the vinyl, the attic’s old maps,   Left glass like confetti, then sank to her laps She stitched up the wreckage and called it remorse. #vss365
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 15h
The Gods cried and screamed but these troubles would pass. That's why today's #vss365 #prompt is #hurricane.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Old #Harbour let go of her anger one day, She shuttered the docks to the storm and the fray, Where grudges had stood, She planted the good, Now warmth fills the quay where cold was at bay. #vss365
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They harboured no hatred. Along the coast, they come excited to trade secrets and wishes. They wanted to show us what laid beyond the horizon so we allowed them passage into our world. The next #vss365 #prompt is #harbour.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There once was a fellow named  #Lure, Whose love was a practiced  allure, He'd cast with a grin, You'd bite - then he'd spin, And leave you to land something purer. #vss365
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They heard whispers. Of riches and fame. It pulled them in. They left behind the safe enclave of the earth to step toward the uncertain horizon. It convinced them they were safe, until it captured their attention and lives. On this day, the #vss365 #prompt is #lure.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Mountain kept morning like a fold, Its spine a parchment of secrets and bone, Old footsteps hummed stories, sandals and hooves overthrown, A kestrel traced cliff-lines in patience alone— Its silence checkmated the sky with a single, cold stone. #vss365
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Under the sky's dread and gloom they stood taller than mankind. Against rain or wind, they never faltered. That's why today's #vss365 #prompt is #mountain.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Cloud drifted and stretched  evermore Lazily and moved for keeps on the shore She sighed—sunbeams peeped,   Through slivers that sneaked,   And cheekily winked as they  poured. #vss365
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David Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sometimes we dream of greater days ahead especially during dark times. That's why today's #vss365 #prompt is #cloud.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There once was a #Bequest with calm air, Who settled into a soft chair, and tucked heirlooms with care, into waiting hands fair— "Your tomorrows," she sighed, "I will spare." #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Bequest Day 15 - Our Legacy, we #Bequest to the world What remains is the ones who remember: a gesture, a phrase, a kindness, a way of standing in the rain. We leave behind more than we ever knew. The story does not end. It becomes a part of something larger than itself. 💫🖤
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There once was a poet named #Reprieve, Whose verses clung tight, would not leave; They coiled and they spun, Till the struggle was done And silence at last took its leave. #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Purify, a young girl, is sought with a plea, to wash all the dust from the mind's memory, she sends river-slow hands, and lets brittle things land— so the heart can unburden and laugh, "I'm free!" #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Purify quietly rolls up her sleeves, And hums as she methodically cleaves, With whispers she wipes Stale air from the pipes, Leaving calm-scented clarity — and reliefs. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Purify Day 13 - In Elderhood we prepare, we #Purify and reflect We carry stories of a lifetime. Some are spoken. Some are no longer necessary. Our silence begins filling rooms. We begin to separate what matters from what merely happened. 👴👵🖤❤️
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn #Renounce Leaves, a wistful decree, Made the maples shed contracts with glee, They shrugged and they spun, In a russet rerun, Then mailed the sky a bare, honest plea. #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There once was a monk named #Renounce Time, Who clutched every worry and dime, Till he saw with a grin That less lets you win— So he dropped the whole load… but kept the rhyme. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Renounce Day 12 - As we grow older, into Late Adults, its time to #Renounce Fewer possessions. Truer sentences. The noise begins unhooking itself. We learn that not everything needs to be carried. ❣️❣️❣️
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Nurture was a gardener who'd sow By daylight and soft moonbeam's glow; Each sprout kissed her care, Reached tall through the air, And meadows of kindness did grow. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Nurture Day 11 - It is a joy to #Nurture as we turn Care Givers Years of tender new beginnings. Our hours poured into other bodies. Our sleep given away. Our hearts learning that love can be exhausting and still give love. 💖💘💖
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Reckon knocked once at everyone's door, In a coat sewn of ledgers and weathered old maps from a store. His hair threaded with shavings; his fingers clicked beads; One eye was a careful clock that ticked maybes and needs, The other a warm, sharp compass that found what I'd hidden before. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Reckon Day 10 - It time to #Reckon those Midlife questions The mirror starts asking different questions. The past taps its ring against the glass. What did we build? What did we lose? And who is this standing here now? 😎🖤🖤
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Hunger Day 9 - In the Builder years its all about #Hunger Then hands get busy. Walls. Meals. Mortgages. Promises. Love begins to look like routine. And beneath it all... the wanting. 💚💙💚
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Passion is neither cruel nor kind, She wooed the timid and roused the stubborn mind; Fear was her shadow—wary, useful, sometimes a guard, Time and Habit hissed warnings; she smiled and rewrote the yard; Wounded or loved, both ruin and bloom grew richer where Passion inclined. #vss365
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Momentum seems to be growing behind the idea of a 'Breturn'
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 22/09/2026
one of my favourite booker prize traditions is that, while the catering for the final announcement is handled by a ritzy outside firm, the shortlist announcement dinner is cooked entirely by the judging panel
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Isla @isla74155345.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The White House has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from access. The move has triggered legal and constitutional concerns over press access and the First Amendment. #USPolitics #PressFreedom #Trump
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Trump says he is banning media outlets CNN, MS NOW, Politico from White House
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is banning three major news outlets – CNN, MS NOW and Politico – from the White House in his latest threat to the independent press.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beginnings are promised by a guide named #Embark, Who kept in her pocket bright dawns for the dark; She folded a map like a bird, Lit a lantern till forks spoke a word, Then left you a compass and footprints to mark. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Embark Day 7 - Lets #Embark to the world of a Young Adult The horizon calls. We leave before we know what leaving costs. A suitcase. A little courage. A great deal of uncertainty.
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Stormy came with the horizon in her nails, Pockets full of thunder, breath salted by rain-telling tales. Her hair was a field of bent grass, She spoke in quick storms that were bound soon to pass, And puddles kept prismed footprints while a far radio counted her trails. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Stormy Day 6 - and then we are #Stormy Teeens Out comes a voice trying on thunder for size. We test the walls. We test the world. We test ourselves. Sometimes we mistake breaking for becoming. 👶🖤👶
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 21/09/2026
Typhoon Dujuan is forecast to bring heavy rains starting Monday, with Level 4 danger warnings issued for some areas as Japan marks its Silver Week holidays. 👉 ebx.sh/CwQMs0
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Conflict is a man in a coat, Sewn from old grudges and bright, new outrage afloat; He shifted his weave with the weather of every fraught room, Where the air grew taut and talk sharpened to knives in that room, His eyes are red maps with the shortcuts he wrote. #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Conflict is a girl whose hands wouldn't sit still, One smoothed snarled-up truths with a patient, deft skill, The other packed sand into jars, Set beetles and grudges on bars, And wore watch-faces on knuckles that ticked out by will. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Conflict Day 5 - As a Preteen - we face #Conflict A strange skin at the threshold.. laughter on one side, ache on the other, learning to share the same chair. 😊😆😭😢
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The world is full of possibilities and light, Where chances and wonders took flight. #Marvel at each tiny thing, Let possibility sing— And chase every dawn with delight. #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Marvel kneels, fingertips skimming the child's stray cape He draws a tiny comet in the air—its bright arc finds shape. It sparks—a small dot, Then fans out the plot, And blooms into a panel that cradles the cape. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Marvel Day 4 - We #Marvel at a Child in us A pocketful of mysteries. A cardboard sword. A blanket kingdom. A knight. A warrior princess. A moon that might answer back. The world has not yet learned to say impossible. 😊🖤😊
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Explore is a tiny toddler, sun-streaked hair and a mouth full of questions. His palms are paper maps, creases inked with sidewalks and secret gardens. Every open room becomes a continent He speaks in sticky fingerprint And the universe leans close to learn his name. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Explore Day 3 - we get to the Toddler stage and #Explore Every day is a negotiation with gravity. Knees learn the language of floors. Feet discover that the world is movable. And so, we begin to wander. 👶🐥👶
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There once was a planet named #Sustain, That taught us to steward, not to drain. We mended with care, And learned how to share, And called what we did simply  "Sustain." #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Her name was #Sustain -half field, half city block,   Her braids wound with thin vines and a twist of copper lock Her skin—weathered green,   One hand mended nets; the otherbore coal-smudges seen,   She moved like the tide—slow, sure, inexorable as a clock. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Sustain Day 2 - INFANCY A small fist against a huge sky. Need is our first language. We reach. We cry. We are held. 💕
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Commence comes to thresholds and hinges, With a soft authority that never fringes. She's friend to the terrified and intriguer, a gentle conductor for timid and eager, she opens the door and leaves  hope on its hinges. #vss365
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#vss365 #Prompt #Commence Day 1 - THE FIRST BREATH 🐣 Salty air enters the lungs. The world arrives! the first light, the first sound, its first everything. Let’s begin. 😍
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi I have the honor of hosting #vss365 from Sep 16 - Sep 30. I am so excited For my prompt words, the theme is inspired by stages of human life. Hope the prompts will spark imagination and meaningful writing. Prompt post time: 10:30 AM GMT Looking Forward to Your Writing
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
An #autumnal breath filled the air, Soft smoky sunsets settled there; Streets strewn with scarlet leaves, Each footfall a hush that weaves, And twilight wrapped all in coppery flair. #vss365
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Deepa Kandaswamy @daknews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The #autumnal street is paved in gold, Where maples tossed confetti of red, brown, and bold; We sipped cider by blaze, And hummed softer days' praise, As twilight tucked rooftops in stories of old. #vss365
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Verde Mar @tetrametracall1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
9/15: Autumnal #vss365 #prompt #autumnal Definition: Autumnal refers to things that are suggestive of autumn. Few sights are more beautiful than trees with brilliant foliage—bold reds, yellows, oranges, and browns. The sense that we have changed. Song: Diamond Dust; Jeff Beck
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