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Rachel @rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Such great words. Thanks Gene.
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A final wave, as I bid you all adieu, to rejoin the ranks of writers that grace #vss365 Please join our new prompter, Paul @thedevilstuna for his 15 day run of music themed offerings! I've enjoyed it, Thank you All!
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's the changing of the #vss365 guard with the inimitable @GeneVatow passing the baton over to me . I'm nervous but also excited to be your new host & hope to inspire you as much as Gene has. My first word will be posted at 10am tomorrow, let #promptober commence.
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Good morning writers and friends.. Something we all confront, from time to time I leave you with one final puzzle, it's been fun! 30 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #conundrum My final prompt. I hand over now to Paul @thedevilstuna with wishes of luck!
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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Pure delight. Thank you, Gene 😘❤️
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Arcane #conundrum writers working within the sprinkles of time a songlike riff of rhythm and the unfettered dance of rhyme Puzzle of words in search of the sublime #vss365 #conundrum #poetry My last prompt, it has been a joy! Thank you, Writers, and friends!
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Good morning writers and friends.. Something we all confront, from time to time I leave you with one final puzzle, it's been fun! 30 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #conundrum My final prompt. I hand over now to Paul @thedevilstuna with wishes of luck!
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all! Let's welcome our new prompter. I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT Enjoy the new month!!
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm excited & a little nervous to be your next #vss365 host from 1st October. How do you follow @genevatow.bsky.social who has inspired so much incredible writing? I'll be posting daily at 10am GMT from 1st October so keep your eyes peeled & your pens ready to rock 🤘
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all! Let's welcome our new prompter. I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT Enjoy the new month!!
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm honored by those who've taken part in my prompts. It is a grand community at #vss365 Many thanks to all! Let's welcome our new prompter. I turn over the reins to Paul @thedevilstuna on October 1. He will post at 10 am GMT Enjoy the new month!!
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Words luminesce drifting through the shadows seeking the freedom of the pen At last they begin to #sublimate in the nether Ice melts on thin revetments and drips into the when #vss365 #sublimate #poetry
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Good morning writers and friends.. We all hide some of what we feel. Form is changed, maybe, But not essence... 29 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sublimate
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
as the margins of #eventuality widen with whole body she holds on to the moment keeping watch & fighting off torpor #sonorous thoughts scatter sleep draws her in taking her to the shore of nothingness or the bank of plenitude cellars or suns #perhaps will call her home #vss365 #poetry
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Could the black hole be an #escutcheon to another universe What phantoms walk this sparkled lane to be swallowed by the dark How many theories are just fantasies conceived upon a lark #vss365 #escutcheon #poetry
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Good morning writers and authors. Keys heard jingling in the hallway... From caves to castles, to your front door... 27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #escutcheon
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#vss365 Scarlight Scrutiny pierces the siltblood, shamed roots convulse. Exposed. Rot hides, in the murmur, but light, persistent, leaks through the scar's rip. #Scrutiny #writerscommunity #poetry #poetrycorner
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Hypnotic #scrutiny seeking interpretation of classic pages from the rim The soul of civilization rides on humanity and its whim Life explodes from darkness and revels in the light I read on in my atelier Passing another night #vss365 #scrutiny #poetry
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Good morning writers, authors, and questioners of fate... Find the words of inquiry that shed the most light... 27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #scrutiny
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Startled by fickle words glossy sailboats & looming houses noble daughters of the rose of winds have gone With trailing hair & slender grace they bore #obsessive beauty of #sonorous strata from bygone hours Light & heavy at once their absence inhabits deep each of our joys & trials #vss365 #emoetry
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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
#vss365 Breath sonorous grit rattlesound, (lungs tighten) dry mouth unbound, (tongue slackens) stumble-words unfound (throat closes) until the air spOoOols again, u n w o u n d #sonorous #writerscommunity #poetrycorner #poetrycommunity
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
meeting in bare words spring and fall ride together sonorous outlook opens to gradual ink that settles beyond the lines #vss365 #sonorous #tankaThursday #open #tanka #poetry
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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Concerned My nosy neighbor Keeps parading By my house Think he’s up To something sneaky Just what— Ain’t figured out Might be acts Nefarious, Or maybe He’s just nosy When confronted He stutters— His cheeks Grow red & rosy His #sonorous “Mea culpa” Is kind As on he moseys #vss365
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Each thought, has sonorous implications from cave man grunts to choirs of angels whispering breeze to the crashing roar of waves Each moment in an atmosphere yields sounds that we can save The murdered girl on the train who never even screamed what about her dreams? #vss365 #sonorous
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Good morning writers, Sound is the expression of language, Be prideful speaking yours. Make your words speak loud and with force.... 26 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sonorous
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Sanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
she often acts a #capricious fanciful child who'd draw windows all around so eyes used to darkness might learn the light yet the pencils never cut deep enough to leave clear marks she has only frozen fingers frayed paper & weep of dragonflies that can't touch the ground #vss365 #poetry #art Suzi K
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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Midnight blue black tresses Fall down her porcelain skin With a twinkle of #caprice In her pool green wet eyes Was it all a dream she thinks But she’ll never know Coz those butterflies left Along with their kisses Each gravestone around her Covered in mosses #vss365 #poetry
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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
(I fell out of the habit of posting here, but here’s another one) capricious fall the splendor of a life in the landscape #vss365 #caprice
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CJB TODAY @cjbtoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Lipstick stains make for angry bread, Biting down hard over something he said. A doorbell, soon a caprice note with a rose Tears touch petals as the scent hits her nose Firm hands appear, then a kiss on her neck Anger sails into lust, it's all hands on deck. #vss365 #caprice
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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
life comes, life goes the blinking of a tearful eye a skein of mournful geese in passing the tossing of God’s dice like raging thunder #vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry #5lines #tanka
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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#vss365 Their mistress was mercurial and oft given to #caprice. Her flights of fancy were legendary. After impaling the entirety of the brotherhood for their refusal to take a knee, she donated their bulging war chest to their starved kin. Then pledged allegiance to their women...
A screengrab of a long skeet draft. it reads "#vss365 Their mistress was mercurial and oft given to #caprice. Her flights of fancy were legendary. After impaling the entirety of the brotherhood for their refusal to take a knee, she donated their bulging war chest to their starved kin. Then pledged allegiance to their women, should anyone mistake their lack of menfolk for weakness and attempt to retake their lands.
Ultimately, she alone knew the price of freedom and the value of the right to choose. And how with time, anyone can learn to value the hand that feeds them.
Though no God could forgive them for growing comfortable, should her will change with the wind and her gaze fell upon them once again."
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the real John Carr. @johncarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Dance with #capricious glee, sing till your voice is hoarse, celebrate your youth. Tomorrow isn't far away, aching bones, cynicism, sadness and moral decay. Time is not your friend, but a burden in disguise. One day you're young and juicy, next day, dry, bitter, but wise. #vss365
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Monique @starfish72.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Bob ordered butter pecan ice-cream. Nora, in a #caprice, chose the hyped wasabi swirl. One lick and she emptied her water bottle into her mouth. "You said be adventurous," she gasped. "I meant add rainbow sprinkles," Bob muttered. #vss365
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
As he always expected when dealing with those in power, even for a small Faction, Dylan expected more than a little #caprice, changeable minds and political moves in spite of the circumstances. He hadn’t seen any of that. Yet. They were, to a one, laser-focussed on beating The Enemy. #vss365
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Kunal 🌅 ~ hiatus ~ 🧑‍🎓📚🖊️📝 @poetickunal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
we walk on, with small hopes, and open hands. a #caprice shifts the heart, like drifting leaves hands touch, words fade we walk on. #vss365 #Prompt #amwriting #writesky #skypoets #5amwriters #Micropoetry #Poem #Poetry #Writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
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mcldf @lttlmkkl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#caprice novice new begin in house not yet the vows siezed cogent knowing in The widest sense distinguished OUT OF emotion knowledge choice justice science influence committee Offshoot council unspecified living soul select self-conscious being sometimes used slightingly individuum bodly mld #vss365
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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
#vss365 Today she makes her first speech and they vote for Year 6 President, the #bellwether of ten-year-olds. 'Even if I don't win it'll boost my confidence,' she says. Whichever way the #caprice of the voters goes, in my eyes she is already a winner.
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
One ripe yew berry, found on yesterday's #KBFWalk. --- #DailyPictureTheme #one #vss365 #caprice #BlueSkyRelay #watercolour DailyHaikuPrompt (tho no haiku) walnuts / fiddlehead #WritingCommunity #poetry #nonet #KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography #KBFWotY #Autumn #September
A close-up of a red, ripe yew berry on it's dark-green branch.

© Stefanie Neumann - #KBFPhotographyA black-and-white close-up, focussed on a red, ripe yew berry on it's black-and-white branch. Written over it in white letters, a nonet:

CAPRICCIO

I stand alone amidst fading green
Pick up a walnut from the ground
When I remember Khoomei
And horse-shaped fiddleheads
A wayside caprice
Watercoloured
Memory
Different
Life

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© Stefanie Neumann - #KBFPhotography
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🔆Fiery Sun Song🔆 @fluxofmind.ca · 25/09/2025
The shouts never cease From unceasing caprice Except Epstein's piece Which they will not release #vss365 #caprice
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Few of the gods in the game were out-and-out evil, or good, but were shaded, and with a good dolloping of #caprice to make things even more interesting. It did make things a little more interesting and, whenever Rory got a quest to deal with a god, it was very rarely considered boring. #vss365
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GeneVatow @genevatow.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Colours touching trees mountainside awash Unbranding Summer with the capricious light of art Causes found in peril on heavens' ceiling in the dark Cafe living in the when and where relies upon the spark #vss365 #caprice #poetry
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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐨⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ we will be much better off⁣⁣ without these souls⁣⁣ clinging to our stanzas⁣⁣ like tattered flags⁣⁣ in passing storms of ghosts⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #vss365 #caprice #poem #poetry ⁣⁣ #5lines
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PatchieSteve @patchiesteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"Pray, do tell! For my wish to do good is unbending. #Caprice has no home here." Dorothea took a seat and turned her hopeful eyes upon the mouse. "My plan," he began, "is simply this: Middlemarch is already a kind of Between. A middle. This very house can be a Begin, a means to an End." #vss365
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Samantha Carr @samc4rr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
She regretted giving her novel the title #Caprice. She'd had so many mood changes, she wasn't even sure which genre it was anymore. The character fell in love with their reflection and created a portal to meet herself but in doing so made a time rift and was stuck as a barmaid in a Western. #vss365
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Roger Bonner (we is) @bonnerr.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Here’s my #Thursday #BlueSkypost #vss365 #Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn #poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #flower #blossom #bloomscrolling #photography Tenacious nature – finding just the smallest crack in which to blossom 🌼✨
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Wayfarer @wayfarer.chat · 25/09/2025
The clouds above silent, cyclopean, presage an #eventuality with each new protean wisp and and turn. The fancies fade; the sky takes on an autumn tone perhaps a verdant flash or ruddy sun will surely call a storm. #vss365
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Relentless caprice, World held hostage to the whims Of a man-baby. #vss365 #caprice #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
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