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A writing prompt to inspire poems and stories, thoughts and wanders. Tag #thingstowriteabout. Hosted by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social #writingcommunity

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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 17h
#vss365 #bequest #2wordprompt #forward #moment #ThingsToWriteAbout #bonfire #writing #prose #vsshorror #vss
Flung from the buckboard, the fiend's momentum carried him #forward to tumble into the #bonfire. Fully engulfed, his figure rose amidst the flames for a final #moment, raising his hands in the air, curled fingers grasping as claws. His screams tore through the night, calling to his brethren--his last #bequest a curse of terror and vengeance.

~Beyond the Onions~ Ross McDermott ~
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 14h
homeless camp — a bonfire of campaign signs #thingstowriteabout
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Bluesky @naramoore.bsky.social · 12h
Amaterasu's Aching Heart ••⋅☾ #片歌 ☽⋅•• #Radiant #bonfire blaze Amaterasu's aching heart Attendants at the cave ••⋅☾ #Katauta ☽⋅•• Image: #Sunflowers #Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #UrbanPhotography #thingstowriteabout #haikuchallenge #InkMine #Ache #Flower #Sun #Fall #Autumn
••⋅☾ 片歌  ☽⋅••

Radiant bonfire blaze
Amaterasu's aching heart
Attendants at the cave

••⋅☾ Katauta ☽⋅••

Image: 3 Sunflowers (C) Nara Moore 2026
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 4h
#thingstowriteabout She read that nothing is ever lost. What we lose on the journey is picked up by others along the way. All the poetry, the art, the plays. The universe still runs on mathematics even without proof. She cried anyway. She was lost. Her heart was a #bonfire. Her love was ashes.
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · 3h
#moonmystic #thingstowriteabout #haikufeels Same old memories Like Gifts tied up in Ribbon Of people I Miss Anastasiia Chepinska unsplash.com
Gifts tied with red ribbon
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · 3h
#thingstowriteabout #2WordPrompt The Whole experience of using a phone with a Dial and cord. The Custom of getting Cozy for long chats. Hoping they would answer. Fearing the dreaded busy signal Mike Meyers unsplash.com
An old yellow rotary telephone
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 1m
Today’s Thursday October 1st prompt is #habitat #thingstowriteabout
Text reads “ with easy to identify illustrations, info and habitats”.
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 21h
Bonfire tragedy, Quickly spun out of control, Wishing for the rain. #ThingsToWriteAbout #bonfire #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 15h
Gather round the #bonfire roast marshmallows eat s'mores and more as the night falls and the branches pop and crackle listen to the spooky tales from long long ago. #thingstowriteabout #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#thingstowriteabout #brass Embouchure— rumbling like thunder on green bin day.
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
flea market — brass knuckles for sale, slightly tarnished #thingstowriteabout
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K. S. Dearsley @ksdearsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He was a brass band. People heard jollity and trumpets and comical fruity asides whenever he entered the room. #ThingsToWriteAbout
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Tori Gallagher @rockingpines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
brass ship’s bell on the sea floor undiscovered #thingstowriteabout #haiku #senryu
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today’s Wednesday September 30th prompt is #bonfire #thingstowriteabout
A torn wrapper reads “mini bonfire logs honey”.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
trumpet made of #brass whenever he practices it sounds like a dying elephant upstairs in his room #thingstowriteabout #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mournful leaves ask sad questions What fresh gift, fresh hell is this? World turned upside down Abandoned trees left to silence #Emoetry #mournful #thingstowriteabout #gift #OurPoetryX #fresh #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #Abstractia #leaves #photography #wck #PoetryAndPhotography 💙📷 me
Mournful Leaves
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A canopy of Cooper Leaf, vivid dark green, copper, and lighter green leaves tinged red. 

Acalypha wilkesiana, also called Jacob's coat. 

Folks use its brightly colored, mottled foliage—shades of red, copper, bronze, and green—as bold hedge screens and accent plants
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Author Christopher ✍️ @awalkingmemeplex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Them’s Fighting Words I’m #flooded with adrenaline… I’m piqued. Nah bro: I’m miffed. He said that I could cry #uncle As though that were a #gift. I’ll put my fist where his mouth is, If I’ve got any aim: Until HE calls the brother of HIS father out by name! 👊🎁 #thingstowriteabout #2wordprompt
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sadly, the old VW Beetle that #Uncle Ted #gifted us in his will got washed away in the monsoon #floods. It wasn’t running and was in danger of being ticketed by the street parking officers, so the floods did them a favor by taking it away. #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#thingstowriteabout When least expected— a miracle! You. Here. A #gift from the cosmos.
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
second-hand courtship wrapping a gift in an old road map #thingstowriteabout
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Leola's Quilts @ivymagic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The #gifts are many While thoughts are few Time given freely Priceless #thingstowriteabout
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s Tuesday September 29th prompt is #brass #thingstowriteabout
A brass round object with a flower shape inside. It hangs on a nail on old wood.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One man's #gift is another man's curse They say it is all a matter of perspective it is easy to say that when it is not you who must deal with the consequences. #thingstowriteabout #writing #poetry #writingcommunity
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#thingstowriteabout Robins are for Royal Victorian postmen, red-breasted uniforms in the snow. #Post piles up under her letterbox. Junk mail. Bills. No-one sends cards now. The only greetings are municipal, attached to bin collection dates.
A robin red breast on barren ground. 📷 Newcastle, 2019.
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Renounce what? Faith in religion, government, or maybe the #post office? None of the above. At this point being an older person there really isn’t anything to #renounce, if there ever was anything that needed to be renounced. Just get on with life and live it. #vss365 #thingstowriteabout
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Raging gusts test the chimney’s flames, biting cold forcing the tenacious birch to renounce, footsteps fading beneath the heavy snowfall, a lonesome swallow perches on a forgotten postbox its cry drifting into silence. #vss365 #inkmine #vssfantasy #thingstowriteabout #emoetry #BlueskyRemnant #BSPP57
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Post Office Square young techies check their email #thingstowriteabout
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today’s Monday September 28th prompt is #gift #thingstowriteabout
The word “gift” with a dark pink star behind it.
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Buttering the toast, When the post arrives early, Today's host of trash. #ThingsToWriteAbout #post #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
send cards through the #post long before the internet what's their country code? #thingstowriteabout #writing #haiku #writingcommunity #poetry
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#WritingCommunity #vss365 @ladydecrescent.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - The fields are black beneath an incensed sky that is gently blushing, soon after, as if ashamed of this outburst on such a halcyon morning. A few last stars remember the lights of... 1/7
The fields are black beneath an incensed sky that is gently blushing, soon after, as if ashamed of this outburst on such a halcyon morning. A few last stars remember the lights of swinging lanterns which were carried over these acres at three knocks past midnight, asking Demeter to nurture the grounds for the next luscious harvest. But for now, fruition fades as the leaves are wearing translucent gold before they woefully sail to the ground.

Some dance through the air as if to defy gravity. But no matter how rigorously they ride gust after gust, how tenaciously they cling to those last colours, they must land eventually. My practised smile slips for a moment while I cry one little tear. It shimmers on my cheek before it falls, too. 

Nothing is forever, I think, and thereby release the anchor. But something doesn't ring true. Change is eternal. Souls are eternal. And some bonds between  soulmates are, too. But perhaps eternity is not the same as forever.

Something tingles down my spine.

Too many blind spots from within this box.

The keynote is experience. Independence is as much an illusion as is dependency. Free will is as much an illusion as is control. And then, again, it is all that counts.

Therefore, live deeply, spare nothing, let life put its mark on you, leave the book of the dead closed. Because, after all, what is the purpose of life if not living?

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#thingstowriteabout #Independence, coterminous with freedom, agency. A venn diagram of revolution.
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Independence Day — she sneaks out through the window #thingstowriteabout
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nature or nurture? Sunset's bold independence Proof of love's embrace #vss365 #nurture #haiku #writesky #thingstowriteabout #poetsofbluesky #poetrysky #micropoetry #haikupoem #photography #wck #PoetryAndPhotography 💙📷 me
Sunset Independence. 
Photograph by Winter Ives. 
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of the ball drop over the Pacific Ocean. Vivid orange-red colours signify a bold embrace as glints of light shimmer across the water.
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today’s Sunday September 27th prompt is #post …or #postoffice #thingstowriteabout
A shiny red plastic has a gold crown on it and the words “E R post office” there is a black base.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#independence won the celebrations begin but what will come next? #thingstowriteabout #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
my mind draws a #blank I have to look up a word that I can't recall #thingstowriteabout #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Independence is Not begged for, it is the right Of all living things. #ThingsToWriteAbout #independence #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It was a good #session, but I’d like to know who #owner of the facility is. The space for the name is still #blank on all the paperwork. Does it really matter? To me it does. I don’t want to patronize a place run by the wrong kind of people. Know what I mean? #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
painting class the nude model's blank expression #thingstowriteabout
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Tori Gallagher @rockingpines.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
nothing more intimidating than a blank page #thingstowriteabout #haiku #senryu
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today’s Saturday September 26th prompt is #independence #thingstowriteabout
In the middle the text reads “independence “
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#ThingsToWriteAbout #poem A dark day at the office: Power outage; nine-fifteen Computers crashed; #blank, blue screens The CEO lost his shit Such rage, reception up and quit IT loitered in shadowed halls Warehouse filled with caterwauls While all of us associates calmed ourselves with opiates.
static.klipy.com
Classic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
ALT: Classic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did they draw a blank on ideas? AI write this? It’s an elite trained dog and a spec ops guy trying to survive in the wilderness? I reckon they’ll do fine in their home environment. Why not make a movie about an author on a laptop. Will she finish the novel? Must see! 🤭🙄 #vss365 #thingstowriteabout
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#thingstowriteabout I'd watch the women each Saturday: Sandra Dickinson, Bonnie Langford, Marti Caine. Not for the questions, not what #blank was #blank. I wanted to fill other more crucial gaps in knowledge: how to talk to people, how to laugh without being a joke. Some lessons are never learned.
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A blank space where a Face should be, fascinating Physiology. #ThingsToWriteAbout #blank #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do as the sun #dial does & only count the happy hours (inspired by an old German schlager) #thingstowriteabout
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#ThingsToWriteAbout #leap #poem #poetry #writing #rhymetime #vss
It hides beneath the fluffy snow 
still,
one might think the elk would know 
Yet there they go...

One by one the fissure's found
several swallowed-not a sound
The wiser elk spy the ground
and #leap across in single bounds
to leave behind the braying hounds
and evade the hunter’s bow

~Beyond the Onions~ Ross McDermott ~
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charlyannd @charlyannd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is love not but a #leap of faith a hellbent hasty heart with blinders donned clear thought abscond prudence plays no part #ThingsToWriteAbout #poetry #micropoetry #5lines #poem
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charlyannd @charlyannd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We #leap into the #abyss #Hunger, my lifelong #abyss We'll #swan into love's #abyss Ever #defy hate's #abyss #ThingsToWriteAbout #7syllablesentence #vss365 #vssmagic #inkmine
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