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Quick Quill (On Summer Break) @quickquill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Hello, all. It's been a strange summer. I find myself needing to disconnected from social media and try to find solace in nature as this summer wears on. I am going to pause #QuickQuill 'til the fall. I apologize, but I am not in the right headspace to be super social. I wish you all peaceful days.

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Quick Quill (On Summer Break) @quickquill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hello, all. Unfortunately my son is quite ill with the flu and my partner is out of town, so I'm alone with him this evening. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal to have my kids just watch a movie, but he needs some TLC so I'm cancelling tonight. I'm so sorry. See you next month!

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Quick Quill (On Summer Break) @quickquill.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It is with much sadness that I must inform everyone that I @wordsbyamymichelle.bsky.social will no longer be able to do #quickquill encore on Sat mornings. I’ve had to seek a 2nd job. I will really miss hosting this event! Please continue to give @arliden.bsky.social your full support!

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

weeping willow whisper in the wind long branches rustle entwined in sin another spring and the buds begin tempting bees to nestle deep within #quickquill Rd 9

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LNK @poetrylvr81.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

How could he cheat Did 20 years mean nothing 2 kids plus 1 otw Living life in & out everyday He lied to my face Said he loved me His betrayal plowed through Splintered us in pieces My lawyer said I’d win The cost was high Why oh why Ugly & devastating A new life emerging Slowly but surely #D2R1

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

spring is the season earth's heart thuds as bees begin to bite at blooming buds rainfall ravaged rivers in raging floods fawns frolic freely for fiending studs #quickquill Rd 10

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Quick Quill (On Summer Break) @quickquill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thank you all for participating in today’s #QuickQuick writing challenge. I’ve enjoyed reading all your submissions! Join us again next month Fri 5/9 @ 7 PM EST/12 BST & Sat 5/10 @ 11 AM EST/ 4 PM GMT ✒️❤️😊

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I am the moon. They say I’m a satellite but I don’t bounce back something as small as data. I’m better than that. I make the tides turn and the lovers swoon #QuickQuill ERD 3

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Seven or eight hundred years ago Someone thought it’d be good To use arch technology, Build a stone bridge, And forge a dry crossing Over the River Thurne. So there it stands To this day Boats now designed To pass beneath it. #QuickQuill QQ5ER2 #Imagery #bridge #ArtYear MyPic 📷 MyArt 🎨

Watercolour painting, one of my first, dating from circa 2002.
Depicts Potter Heigham Bridge in Norfolk, England, a medieval arched hump-backed bridge reflecting off the river water, a large tree behind it and summery blue skies and clouds behind.

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A goddess presiding over the night she pulls the tides shining her light like a mother's loving hand guiding earthly life she steadies our journey with mysterious might as we spin #quickquill R3 personification (the moon)

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

When I was a new mom, I was so tired that if I turned my head too fast, I would get the spins. I would see things that weren’t there. The only noise I couldn’t sleep through was the sound of my baby’s cry. Oh, I guess I’m not exaggerating. How's this-- even my yawns had yawns. #QuickQuill ERD 4

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The freedom Americans praised, unabashed has been torn apart by callous brass. So now we’re stuck with this morass. #QuickQuill ERD 5

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Free to swim Wherever it pleases The goldfish travels Around its entire world Trapped in its bowl Free but not free #QuickQuill QQ5ER5 #Paradox #FreedomTrapped #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Psithurism is the sound trees make. Each species is different. No creak, groan or rustle is the same. Night after night, I listen to their secrets never expecting they would speak my name. #QuickQuill ERD 6

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

One summer night a whisper in the trees called my name softly upon a jasmine breeze It said, "All is well, no need to stress breathe deep the wind, let go, and rest." #quickquill R6 - Wildcard (A tree speaks your name under the stars. What does it tell you?)

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hot summer’s day has passed Darkness has fallen A long way inland The calm is replaced By the sea breeze It’s finally arrived Whispering trees I make out my name How did they know it’s me? Is it a warning? Or just saying The land breeze follows soon? #QuickQuill QQ5ER6 #Wildcard #TreeSpeaksYourName

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“Don’t worry, my heart will go on.” Well, good for you. But your answer will not suffice as you’re willing to let me die in the ice. I’m not willing to make such a sacrifice. #QuickQuill ERD 7

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

recidivism of rapidly racing remembrances each echo elucidating everything extinct discrete dalliances drive deep division #quickquill Rd 1

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Mark Fulton @markdful.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The ice berg melted like the Titanic. Nobody thought they could be hurt. Humanity died the same way. The climate burnt them on the dirt. #quickquill

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Nothing to see here Nothing to worry about Confirmation bias The realm of the unconsciously incompetent Who needs to worry about icebergs When we’re unsinkable Until our world is ripped apart By a dose of reality #QuickQuill QQ5ER7 #Allusion #TheTitanic #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

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Maryanne @mafauthor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thank you, #QuickQuill for another wonderful day of poetry prompts.

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

surpassed in size only by boast the pinnacle of luxury unaffordable to most a maiden adorned for elite's delight fairy tale carriage struck down at midnight #quickquill R7 Allusion (The Titanic)

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

a whisper of winter on autumn's breeze announced and ushered by the rustling of leaves quick footsteps crunching limbs tightly clasped the romance of summer slipped from her grasp #quickquill R9 Onomatopoeia (rustle)

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

selene shining bright by way of helios' light keeping us in gravity hopefully for eternity #quickquill Rd 3

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

we're going down, our ship is sunk for this earth we've filled with junk perfect metaphor beneath the sea our planet is dying: think titanically #quickquill Rd 7

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

while sticks and stones hurled at her fears green-eyed monster sheds crocodile tears but nothing satisfies the red white and blue like treading all over the bodies of me & you #quickquill Rd 8

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

green eyes so blue haloed in briars and thorns sorrow bleeds on salt-stung cheeks for the loss of unrealized dreams #QuickQuill R8 Ekphrasis (artist Oksana Popova)

green eyes so blue
haloed by briars and thorns
sorrow bleeds
on salt-stung cheeks
for the loss
of unrealized dreams

#QuickQuill R8 Ekphrasis
(artist Oksana Popova)

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

As I was looking in You were looking out A thorny barrier between But it’s more than I thought The thorns are tearing you without The barrier tearing you up within Lacrimation now in full flow #QuickQuill QQ5ER8 #Ekphrasis #PoetryCommunity #Art “Maze” Art By Hiroko Sakai, Japanese Artist in SanFran

Art by Hiroko Sakai.

It’s a powerful inspiring surrealism oil painting of a green eye looking up the sky out of thorn, shedding tears.

This painting "Maze" is an "Emotion" themed one-of-a-kind piece of art, has been one of the best selling Art prints of Hiroko Sakai's artwork. Hiroko Sakai is a contemporary Japanese artist who has lived and worked in San Francisco, California since 1999. The intense passion that she conveys in her art has inspired deep expressions of emotion in viewers over the years.

For more information about her artwork, visit Hiroko Sakai's official website : www.hirokosakaifineart.com

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Blooming blossoms burst a basin beneath birches bathing in bluebells #quickquill R10 Alliteration (bloom) #ThePenFlows #haiku

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The night howled like a child having a tantrum fit, flinging branches and moaning through the rafters. The sky, wild and unruly, scribbled angry thoughts of a mad scientist, while rain beat the earth with relentless drums, unyielding and fierce. #quickquill Round 1 #amwriting

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The wind has died No longer is there a breeze Or a noise from the trees Yet still there is a rustle An ephemeral swish A short-lived bustle Amongst the leaves And branches Adorning the ground A hedgehog bustles Around its home As it pleases #QuickQuill QQ5ER9 #Onomatopeia #rustle #PoetryCommunity

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Blues skies and warm sun Blooms in the spring Blown by the winds Blossoms strewn on the ground Blissful the Spring #QuickQuill QQ5ER10 #Alliteration #bloom #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Amidst the storm’s fury, a narrow expanse rose, the only way forward. The car's headlights sliced through the darkness, racing toward the suspended stretch, its only escape from the rising flood below. Thunder roared, but the crossing held firm. #quickquill Round 2 #amwriting

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A fierce, silvery glow sliced through the clouds, strong and commanding. It held the crossing in its grasp, steady and unwavering. The light blazed like a watchful protector, pushing back the storm, guiding the car through the chaos with relentless strength. #quickquill Round 3 #amwriting

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The car moved as though trapped in molasses, its wheels groaning under the weight of time. The driver’s eyelids sank, heavy as mountains, each blink stretching into infinity. The very air felt thick, as if sleep itself had taken control. #quickquill Round 4 #amwriting

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The car raced forward, yet every mile felt like it was sinking deeper. Freedom whispered in the distance, but with each breath, the driver felt more trapped— caught between the exhilaration of escape and the suffocating weight of inevitability. #quickquill Round 5 #amwriting

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

eyes tired, hands wrought stomach is tied in a knot perhaps it's a flu caught just tell me i love him not #quickquill Rd 4

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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The tree’s whisper slithered through the wind, its voice ancient, woven with the night’s secrets. "I know you," it hummed, its branches swaying, "You’ve walked this road before. The stars watch, but they do not guide. You’re caught between what you seek and what you fear. #quickquill Round 6

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

the paradox of being me in this delusion i am free diagnosis: what they see all gained must have fee #quickquill Rd 5

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Chrissy @honneylove.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

admiring a tree so strong, i so lame i dared to dream it spoke my name and told me that my heart to tame in the forest bath know no shame #quickquill Rd 6

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Mark Fulton @markdful.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Blue watched red. Music filled his head. Vibrant imagery guided his hand in composing enticing melodies that were off-kilter but mesmerizing and held audiences enraptured. Blue kept looking. His mind kept cooking. #quickquill

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Mark Fulton @markdful.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The rustle and the bustle of the morning hustle brought a week leaving all weak. Sleep was a dream to keep some steam. The weekend brought fights to make wrong right. Another came bringing a flame. #quickquill

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Mark Fulton @markdful.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A bloom blossomed beautifully beguiling bouncing babies becoming teenagers tearing tufts of toughness tormenting teachers toppling adults auditing authority authorized by authors stimulating seniors simmering in the sun surmising upon death. #quickquill

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Cherokee Lair ~ FFS & WTaF & JFC & #COYS @cherokeelair.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#quickquill round 8 #ekphrasis colors bleed down my face as my tears rage against years of learned helplessness~i am not jesus this is not my fate~i rage as hozier sings about shrikes impaling their prey~my tears will cleanse my sight & show me a way out~like dorothy on a brick road i seek my home~

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Two Scoops 🍦🍦 🏉🎨🖋 @paulnicholson.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thanks @quickquill.bsky.social for another set of rounds, and especially to today's prompter, @carolinagrl7.bsky.social 👏👏👏. Another set of great challenges and writes by the participants from the #WritingCommunity and #PoetryCommunity

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monsters-ink.bsky.social @monsters-ink.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Let freedom ring Like the sponge ping pong Ball in my skull It’s old and tired And growing more And more dull Let freedom ring Its hollow Dull Clunking R5 @quickquill.bsky.social

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Mark Fulton @markdful.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“Pssst, Mark. Over here.” “What?” “Over here. I’m the tree.” “What?!!” “Play these lotto numbers and that woman will call.” “Umm, thanks.” “The meaning of life is nacho cheese flavored Doritos.” “Wow, you’re a real wildcard.” #quickquill

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Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

weakened body failing the world fading losing consciousness slipping into deaths grip with final deep breaths my soul succumbs to the Reaper's scythe #quickquill R4 hyperbole (sleepy)

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