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L. M. Shayle

@skittishr.bsky.social
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#Author #artist #poet I go wherever inspiration takes me. Health & anxiety hold me back, ambitions keep me going. linktr.ee/lmshayle

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L. M. Shayle @skittishr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fields are black here Luring forgotten summers Seeking to belong #vss365 #inkMine #FromOneLine #poetry #haiku (Image: Unsplash/Sebastian Schuster)
Dandelion silhouette (image from Unsplash by Sebastian Schuster)
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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For #fragmentsfriday With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry
Half-Life


just when you thought
you had buried
that cold brumal air
ashes—out of nowhere—
with sleet 


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@owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social
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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In search to belong, looking vaguely alike here easiest fake out. #inkmine #scifaikusaturday #haiku
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OddlyMe @oddly-me.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
heart jumps blinding my sight now peering out through my eyes what a luscious sight ... Indeed, let's feast #oddlyme #poem #micropoetry #weirdmicro #delicioulsywicked #horrorprompt #hunger Note: blindlove with a side order of horror.
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rhetoric of resonance thrums in alpha pack's howls, neath lunar beams sly werewolf lures the maiden bloodlust fangs glint carving sigils on her skin sabotaging the path of rescue, her screams are carried by the wind grey ashes cling to cobwebs. #vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #emoetry #Foxprose #BSPP58
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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
scribbles of silent echoes as a cryptic tale awakens the grieving grey stillness chanting charms reigning to a solitary voice along a talus trail while brazen inverted lines pay reverence to the sky #micropoetry #poetry #writerslife #blackandwhitephotography 🖤🤍
Black and white photograph of a strong thunderstorm moving across the mountains.
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Here are the links to all my writing profiles. I like to think there’s something for everybody here, in most genres. Take a look! Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/user/JanGoes...
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Jan Karlsson (@JanGoesWriting) - Wattpad
[Wattys 2021 Winner, Sci-Fi Category - "Foston Slacks - Time's Flies"] [Wattys 2024 Shortlist - "Foston Slacks - Good's Intentions"] [Watty...
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
for a moment impermanence takes colour persimmon clouds #PaintbyWords #Persimmon #Haiku #Poetry #Haiga #Autumn #EastCoastKin
Persimmon-coloured clouds glowing in shades of orange and peach across a blue-grey evening sky above silhouetted streetlamps.
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josephpagano.bsky.social @josephpagano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cadavers in motley Grandma’s arm stained purple mixing Kool Aid in a blue apothecary jar Remedies extant The family assembled around her in photographs like the figures in Las Meninas by Joel-Peter Whitkin; rogue tent show oddities Oblivious to the stranger In the doorway #poem #poetry
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last day of flowers. ✨
Sunlight shines through the pink petals of a flower.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Clare Youngs is a UK based artist, designer/maker who works with paper and fabric #WomensArt
Fun collage resembling a standing cat facing left looking outwards smiling created with differently patterned pieces against a dark background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
all that distance and still the cloud finds itself in a puddle #Vss365 #Cloud #PoetrySky #Tanka #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin #Poetry my 📷
A cloud and a glowing streetlamp reflected in a rain puddle on wet pavement, with raindrops making small ripples across the reflected sky.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Teacups" • 2024 Artist "Ans Debije" (Dutch, b.1962) Oil on mdf gesso panel 20 x 14 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh, my darling the way you form havens with your every breath #poetry
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
mushrooms after rain small umbrellas rise at dawn the lawn grows a town #dailyhaikuprompt #Mushroom and/or #Evening #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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Arliden the Bard @arliden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
walk with me, sometimes I'll have to get ahead & walk backwards just to look at you talk with me, I want to hear the tones the inflection your laughter I need to hear the music of your voice dance with me, it's your body unafraid & next to mine the song won't end and you've no place to be #poetry
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Settling sunbeams, Highlighted in gold, Icarus daydreams, Never growing old, Yesterday gleams. #AcrosticOctober #Shiny #acrosticpoem #writing #writingcommunity @daveashleypoet.bsky.social
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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
cops search me for banned ideas I think of happier times where we don't belong old robot watching me weep in the ruined library habitat shift silvery saplings grow from burnt pages 🤖 #ScifaikuSaturday #inkMine #ThingsToWriteAbout
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I almost wish for The airless escape of space, Take this breath away. #firewords280 #AirlessEscape #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social
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Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚‍♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sabotaged sensations sickly sweet smiles severe strikes soon succumbing sole survivor sobs #emoetry #poetry #tautogram
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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
between flowers and first frost lengthy pause #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (frost)
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Michael Hall @mhallarts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"When you know right from wrong it's not always just black or white." #manyshadesofcolors #noracists #independent #thinkers
Red flowers on a white and black background
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Whispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#vss365 #cloud i tuck my dreams in the crack of the moon the moon that hides between clouds grey and blue clouds grow soft and heavy with the ache of dew dew made of broken nights, whispering secrets to the moon and still, I tuck my dreams in the moon 🖤 #ωнιѕρєяѕ
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Sylvia Kay Rose Author 🍁 @sylvia-rose-books.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🩸📚💙 Killer Compost🎧📚🪐 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfsu7ds ✨As robot wars decimate Earth, a GE compost heap on a hidden space station gets a yen for human flesh. #horror #comedy #sciencefiction #readingcommunity #Bmovie #sci-fi #humor #robots #speculative #adventure #spaceadventure
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Ken Stark @kenstark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Start the award-winning Stage 3 series with a FREE book! shorturl.at/paLcT Read STAGE 3 today! The storm of madness raged, and the world was torn apart… Also on #audiobook #FreeBook #FREE #stage3series #zombie #HORROR #zpoc #audiobooks #audible #zombies #apocalypse 📚💙
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Tractus Fynn @tractusfynn.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
🕰 Murder, Mystery, History and Time Travel 2500 pages, a singular story, a million words. Both playful and disturbing. Truly epic. #mystery #history #timetravel #books #KindleUnlimited The Tractus Fynn Mysteries www.amazon.com/dp/B00EQEH1TY
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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#InkMine #acrostic #spry Sure-footed nymph Pliantly slipping through the forest Racing from leaf to leaf You aren’t seeing things
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Michelle Mann @michellemybelle75.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤍 If you wait long enough life decides for you~ Hastiness can be a friend or foe #poetry #photography #inkmine #eck #bloomscrolling #poetsofbluesky #westcoastkin #writingcommunity
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
nothing is linear the river reaches the sea by changing its mind #inkMine #Linear #Haiku #Poetry #ECK #Nature #Poem my 📷
A canal lined with narrowboats and trees, with a winding towpath passing an old weathered bench beneath a bright, cloudy sky.
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fluffy clouds float carrying the first sign of warmth, switchgrasses sway jackrabbits find sanctuary in this tranquil habitat, rosy milkweeds attract the prettiest butterflies, pleasing stillness lingers in the heartland of prairies #vss365 #inkmine #cassiopeian #emoetry #thingstowriteabout #BSPP58
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ルル | Ruru | Team Daydream Lyricist @rhubarbpiart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
その日には 山をも砕く ラッパ哉 Sono hini wa Yama womo kudaku Lappa kana And on that day It will crumble even the mountains The trumpet #Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #川柳 #LetsRenga #vss365 : #mountain #inkmine : QUAKE
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gracemac.bsky.social @gracemac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
camouflage of drifting leaves autumn's last ache. #inkmine #senryu
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inkMine @inkmine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
mining some ink? spill it #prompts October 02, 2026 Weekend #Prompt - BELONG (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku ** please! No AI ** **no AI words photos or art** post with the hashtag: #inkMine
over an image of spilling ink, this design states:

Weekend Prompt: BELONG 

use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku

please credit art & photos

combo prompts welcome

post with the hashtag
#inkMine
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Talk2BLB @talk2blb.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
a blue scrap of paper a blue scrap of promise a blue scrap of betrayal a blue scrap of me draped on sill silently watering the verge thinking blue bleeds through trickles of time tossed melancholy confetti always against the wind folding carefully these years 1000 origami cranes #fromoneline 426 💎🩵
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Nikki @nikkismiling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When tomorrow becomes today, the excuses you rehearsed yesterday will have nowhere left to hide - and the life you keep postponing will finally demand to know if you’re still coming. #FromOneLine 427
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FromOneLine @fromoneline.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#FromOneLine 430 Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line? Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point! Start your poem/vss with the opening line : The fields are black #FromOneLine 430 #prompt
#FromOneLine 430
Where can we go with just one connecting #prompt line?  Let's see how many different places we can discover from just one starting point!

Start your poem/vss with the opening line :

The fields are black

#FromOneLine 430 #prompt
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𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖬𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗒 𝖠𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗇𝖺 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 - 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒* *Harley's poker face after I clearly caught her nomming on one of the plants on the deck. #Caturday #EveryDayisCaturday #mobilephotography #photography #catscrolling #cats #ILivetoServe #haiku
3 Oct 2026.  Will you *look* at this so-called innocent face. Miss Harley Quinn was caught out om-nom-nomming on a tender plant. Her explanation?  Cat’s gonna cat: I no do it, mum.  I’m innocent as the rain.  I am so pretty.  See how pretty I am?  When’s dinner?  Oh yes, and I’m so pretty.  The plant’s fine. Did I say that out loud?  Pretty. Me.  

𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 - 
𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛
𝑖 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒*

*Harley's poker face after I clearly caught her nomming on one of the plants on the deck.  

#Caturday #EveryDayisCaturday
#mobilephotography #photography
#catscrolling 
#cats #ILivetoServe
#haiku
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arifsky @gumantia.researchers.blue · 27/09/2026
Under the full moon, our memories glow, Like silver dreams from long ago. The night still whispers your name to me, Beneath the moonlight, where we used to be. #micropoetry #fullmoon #paintbywords #skypoets
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Janet 💙⭐️🌲📷 @bluemoon3143.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bucket of Rain If you collect one drop at a time, soon you will have a whole bucketful. #ClassicMono #AOFoto #MinimalMonday #ECK #BlackAndWhite #Monotone #Autumm #PaintByWords
High contrast mono image of a metal bucket full of rain water, a drop creating rippled rings on the surface, a single maple leaf at its base, lines and texture of the wooden flooring beneath.
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Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Forbidden fruit who can say no the fragrance of apples carried in a caressing wind the touch of your skin the draw of trespassing into deep waters unknown the lure of that unforgivable sin #vss365 #prompt #lure.
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Brooksie C. Fontaine @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Autumn comes to the #mountain, acorns dangling from the saddle of the dappled ginger pony he leads by the bridle. As he passes, the apples bite bright red, cinnamon and woodsmoke curl from cottage chimneys. Birds take flight, granted permission to fly for warmer woods. #vss365
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Always the shiny things: the gleam, the flash, the captured eye; #unable to #escape the #lure of the night sky. #vss365 #lure #2wordprompt #poetry #poem #writing
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Aurumsella @aurumsella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Whatcha doing out there?" "Catching mermen." "In a desert?" "Yep." "Have you caught any?" "15 so far." "Really?? What do you use as a #lure?" "Peanut butter sandwiches." "Like them, do they?" "No. They hate them with a passion. Can't resist trying to destroy them all." #vss365
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William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
_in the strangling net_ drawn always to shiny the last of the eaters hang out on their barbs still lured by the promise of plastic applause #vss365 #lure #poem #poetry #micropoetry #cherita
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word-massager.bsky.social @word-massager.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gazing though the cracked prism of intolerance yields a distorted vision The distinction blurs between fact and fiction as the ancient strobe #lure of scapegoat hatred used by bigots to promote mass prejudice can never seem to be dimmed #vss365 #poetry #poem #amwriting
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ant ant ant ant ant @antfive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#haiku we’re just happy our peanut butter is back
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Professor Fox ✨🖤🌹 @darkxfer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we have been given to peace in the midst of sabotaged victory momentous in minor moments where our thoughts lure us away seated in what used to be comfort though now our thoughts do sway #vss365 #emoetry
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