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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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K. S. Dearsley @ksdearsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paper poppies–a gift of love–burned in the blood red flames of his passion. She put the ashes on her #roses. #ThingsToWriteAbout
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
rush hour picking through wilted roses on Mother's Day #thingstowriteabout
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout Memory fragment::The War of the #Roses, played out by two mathematicians. One of them is dead now, 'before his time' as they say. The other one might be too, by now. A work dinner, I was there as a plus one. Some discussion. "So says the man from Ilkley". Something dismissed.
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout For you, an open wound these words, secret #roses bleeding red devotion
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Author Christopher ✍️ @awalkingmemeplex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Too Particular? A reader #asserted on Threads: An author shouldn’t “smell,” That this distracts her from a scene Otherwise written well. Re: this #subject, I must confess: I haven’t got a clue If I stop near some #roses, now, What I’m supposed to DO? 💐👃 #thingstowriteabout #2wordprompt #poem
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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tension’s dam breaks as I whisk myself away to a distant island where wet sand molds between my toes. Relaxation, laughter, and roses turn moldy brown when the boss asserts the no day-dreaming policy and subject of my return to work. #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #vss365 #FoxProse #2WordPrompt
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#vss365 @ladydecrescent.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @darkxfer.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - Pagan Dreams The empty chair stands like an island amidst the busy fair. Warm lights illuminate the velvety darkness - as if to ward it off. Brown and golden leaves rustle under... 1/5
Pagan Dreams

The empty chair stands like an island amidst the busy fair. Warm lights illuminate the velvety darkness - as if to ward it off. Brown and golden leaves rustle under people's steps. The aroma of coffee percolating next to an open fire with roasted chestnuts is filling the air. A display of roses is bleeding colours onto concrete.

I'm walking in the shadows, watching stertorous corpses ridicule the old rites, pretending to be alive. Somewhere, a man is paying an encomium to the pittance rewarding those who keep this farce running. I'm almost smitten by his stance.

I rid myself of idle thoughts as I see a silhouette dance towards the spare seat. Your reminiscence is still strong. I gasp, then hold my breath in awe.

With my exhale, tension's dam breaks. The tempest is not vindictive. Yet, I'm not grieving the life eradicated from this town.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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Irina @short-stories.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Alluring aria of luring temptress echoes within the damned island, her fatal kiss seals depraved spirits fate vindictive foxes devour their bloodied flesh, mournful sable roses lie across ruined cemetries writing elegies in tandem #thingstowriteabout #vss365 #inkmine #Foxprose #vssfantasy #emoetry
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funnyfrogget.bsky.social @funnyfrogget.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At last I found my lonely #island, in a quite corner of the library, by the window, hidden behind the economy books, where even I wouldn't normally go. There's just enough room for me & you, Miss Friday, & some rambler #roses peeking through the window. #vss365 #thingstowriteabout
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Bluesky @naramoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅•• Witches Mirror ••⋅☾ #Tanka ☽⋅•• #Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Haiga #俳画 #Photography #マストドン写真部 #写真 #UrbanPhotography #都市写真 #Emoetry #vindictive #PoemsAbout #thingstowriteabout #Roses #Wss366 #benighted #DailyHaikuPrompt #Sowing #Fall #Autumn #Halloween #Spooktober
••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅••

Vindictive I bite
For roses I have no use
Benighted my soul

Seeds of ill will sowing
In the mirror now look

••⋅☾ #Tanka ☽⋅••

Photo: #Witch mannequin, #Seattle, (C) Nara Moore 2026
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Bluesky @naramoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hyena Social Club 6-link #Rengay (C) Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter@indieauthors.social & Nara Moore @NaraMoore Photo: Stock image of a hyena and wild dog fighting. #Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #Wss366 #Benighted #thingstowriteabout #Roses #Politics #USPol
Hyena Social Club 

6-link #Rengay
(C) Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter@indieauthors.social & Nara Moore @NaraMoore 
Photo: Stock image of a hyena and wild dog fighting.

4-dimensional chess
a dog barks
at the king's knight

Beehive buzzes backward
Benighted conspiracy revealed

blazing inferno
we are all pawns
in the game of life

Pizza parlor ravings
Red Czar plays war games
Sacrifice roses not white

Buena Vista Social Club
the next domino trembles

Withershins tapes
Erasing the verse
The hyena's alternate truths
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 13h
Apologies for lack of prompt yesterday. My Bluesky wasn’t accessible. Today’s Thursday October 8th prompt is #sunflower #thingstowriteabout
A green ribbon with yellow sunflower heads decorating it.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wish I had a pot of small roses on my windowsill So I went out and bought my own flowers Instead of waiting for him to remember our anniversary #thingstowriteabout #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Easier to walk Away than watch my roses Rot into ruin. #ThingsToWriteAbout #roses #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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Jenni Wyn Hyatt @ydryw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout #over #haiku #micropoetry mist lingers long over the mountain tops... autumn morning
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#WritingCommunity #vss365 #FromOneLine 431 @darkxfer.bsky.social @madp03t.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - She counted the bells. ONE... Holding her left index finger over the glass, her gaze wandered towards the window. TWO... Watching the clouds in the twilight skies turned... 1/5
She counted the bells.

ONE...
Holding her left index finger over the glass, her gaze wandered towards the window.

TWO...
Watching the clouds in the twilight skies turned uneasy into a littoral breeze seasoned with salt and sand, as she remembered the ocean's waves washing over her bare feet, earlier on this last warm day.

THREE...
A reminiscence of her severed sanity lingered as every shadow whispered the murmur of the sea.

FOUR...
This memory would be weaponized against her, too, for sure.

FIVE...
But for this moment, the slick rubber tangled around her feet was not important.

SIX...
Her only focus was the sparkling sunlight dancing on the rippling water in her mind.

SEVEN...
The glass started to move her finger over the letters on the spirit board.

EIGHT...
A message from the graveyard cabaret:

NINE...
Why

TEN...
Do

ELEVEN...
We

TWELVE...
Wait?

Thirteen feet of garden hose pulled her away as the hurricane broke loose.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ThingstoWriteAbout #over #vsshorror #horror #poetry #creepy #fromthearchives ⚰️🕷️🕷️😱
Clicking nails on pine-box walls
ticking time, each nail falls
how long they've grown
how long its been
how long are shadows cast by sin?
tick tick, they make the sound
far beneath this hallowed ground
spontaneous, the spiders crawl
#over clicking nails and pine-box walls. 

~Beyond the Onions~ Ross McDermott ~
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Storrow Drive — the over-under on a moving van #thingstowriteabout
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That new #pattern #over the #portal shows you where to #strike in the event of a #hurricane but not the actual location of the portal itself. How do you know that? Because I’m the wizard for this area. Ha! And I’m the Pope. Try again. #vss365 #vssdaily #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout
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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout Skip #over the end even if the fat lady sings
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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A pattern strikes where every shadow whispers doubt in my ear. I must clean the fur, yet a hurricane of incertitude cripples me over and over. Seventy is too loud, but sixty isn’t enough. Back and forth, which volume to choose? #OCD #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #vss365 #FoxProse #2WordPrompt
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Heather @hmr1985az.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#ThingsToWriteAbout - over #emoetry - uneasy #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today’s Tuesday October 6th prompt is #roses #thingstowriteabout
The text reads “roses handpicked for you” there is a picture of a bitten chocolate oozing caramel with a hint of a nut.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
summer is #over but the heat still persists holds on with a tight grip those last afternoons of ninety degrees fade into sixty and chill in these quiet mornings. #thingstowriteabout #writing #writingcommunity #poetry
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ThingsToWriteAbout #poem #poetry #writing #snow_globe #oldpoem The mountain village trembles A signal in this #habitat a water-world as clear as glass accustomed to a human grasp that shakes then falls the flakes that recreates the snow globe’s past
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Winter Wonderland Snow Globe
ALT: Winter Wonderland Snow Globe
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Author Christopher ✍️ @awalkingmemeplex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alma Mater My #spirits, friends, are low today, My #family, and all that: Turned out to be what predators Claimed as their #habitat. #thingstowriteabout #2wordprompt #poetry #cornell In a break from tradition, this poem is (unfortunately) true. No cute emojis for you today. Stay safe out there.
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gracemac.bsky.social @gracemac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
cloud puddle the frog finds a new habitat. #vss365 #thingstowriteabout #senryu
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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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🦤 @dayofthedodo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout According to genesis, our first #habitat was the garden of eden; our first fashion show, fig leaves. Figs are pollinated by wasps. There was something wrong in paradise before we ate the fruit.
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
habitat destruction — songbirds shop for human repellent #thingstowriteabout
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Bluesky @naramoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coyote Dreams: Arroyo Bones ••⋅☾ #和歌 / #短歌 ☽⋅•• October's #chilly rain Washes the arroyo clean Summer #bones revealed☽⋅•• #Bonfire of hopes and dreams #Habitat of coyotes now ••⋅☾ #Tanka ☽⋅•• #Poetry #詩 #NMPoetry #DailyHaikuPrompt #Wss366 #thingstowriteabout #Death #Migrants #Autum #Fall
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Lady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The back room in a #tavern isn’t the best #habitat for a teetotalers’ meeting, but if it’s the only place available, #what the heck. It’s not like there’s a dark #cloud or any cloud hanging over them. The #volume should be lower in that room, too. #vss365 #vssdaily #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout
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Beth Ember @ctrlaltdltffs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can there *be* too many prompts? lol #TrioletJam #camouflage #ThingsToWriteAbout #weirdmicro #PromptCombo #Apocalyse @rfsmith5139.bsky.social
scorched innocence

I grew up around ruins and bonfires 
searching for water every day
most days the situation was quite dire
I grew up around ruins and bonfires
to get more food, I'd do what's required
wearing camouflage, hiding, and praying
I grew up around ruins and bonfires
searching for water every day
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#WIPwordsearch #HaikuChallenge #micropsycho #thingstowriteabout #WriteMap Sing in Harmony Expression given through Song Impressions of sound Cason Asher unsplash.com
A group singing together
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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
darkens early in the last light a rainbow dances #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff #thingstowriteabout #bravewrite #scifaikusaturday #haikusaturday #2wordprompt #senryusunday #inkMine #survive #dark #dailyhaikuprompt #light #haikuchallenge #radiant #bspp58 #fall #rainbow
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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
früh dunkel im letzten licht tanzt ein regenbogen #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #emoetry #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff #thingstowriteabout #bravewrite #scifaikusaturday #haikusaturday #vssmagic #senryusunday #vssdaily #music #dance #inkMine #survive #dark #dailyhaikuprompt #light #fall #autumn #rainbow
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#thingstowriteabout #Vss365 #DailyhaikuPrompt The Cold won't abate Storm Clouds remain circling Bringing a Late Snow simon unsplash.com
A snowy landscape with a cabin in the distance
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morganrrhaze.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#DailyPrompt #thingstowriteabout #haikufeels #WIPSnips Nothing seems the same Wanting to leave changing world Leap without Delay Nelli Chaitanya unsplash.com
A person walking toward a bright slit in a dark wall
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Jasin Fayble @jasinfayble.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Make love a home, a habitat, your existence. To Insecurity’s horror, you’ll hover out of despairs reach, move the mountain you had to climb, reach the star you spot in the distant future where you’re truly and passionately happy. #thingstowriteabout #WildWalkPrompt #vss365 #FoxProse #2WordPrompt
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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#vss365 @sonnetsmith.bsky.social @darkxfer.bsky.social @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @ladydecrescent.bsky.social - Out After Dark Leaving behind countless thwarted attempts, she finally overcame her linear thinking. It had been acting up in defiance of the chaos that ruled this tricky... 1/4
Out After Dark

Leaving behind countless thwarted attempts, she finally overcame her linear thinking. It had been acting up in defiance of the chaos that ruled this tricky venture.

Onyx feathers started to show on her arms as they became more flexuous.

Pleased with her outfit for the prom, she imagined herself taking flight like scorched innocence in its natural habitat. How it would be if a cloud revealed the moon, giving her a spotlight as she landed.

While she continued to stir the cauldron, this felt like a permanent arrival. She might never change back.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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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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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#WritingCommunity #vss365 @ourpoetryx.bsky.social @darkxfer.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social - Sabotaged An autumnal breeze - flavoured with salt, fungi, and bonfires - is carrying a robin's song. It lures me to follow its story. There is courage in the rising gusts and a moment of... 1/5
Sabotaged

An autumnal breeze - flavoured with salt, fungi, and bonfires - is carrying a robin's song. It lures me to follow its story. There is courage in the rising gusts and a moment of stillness emphasizes an airless escape.

The bird lived to tell the tale.

The wind picks up and in the rising gusts, I hear something snap. Then the crescendo of a wood chipper. Finally, not only the wind is screaming, but also a human voice.

With it the wind breaks.

The silence, almost deliciously wicked, does not last long. The wind now blows straight. It swallows the words it carries. I can only sense the rhetoric of resonance. This is not alacrity. It is reason lost in the unpredictable effects of wondrous enigma.

This one claimed a life less significant than a robin's.

I stand petrified as, with a loud crash, the wind smites the third tree from the left. By now, my cosmic daydreams have left, as well.

I want to leave.
But I cannot move.

© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
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Winter Ives @winterives.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tormented sea habitats spoiled by greed Remember when fish were plenty waters clean not yellowing Sea and Sky harbour no ill will Orange Sun may prove unforgiving #Emoetry #OurPoetryX #vss365 #thingstowriteabout #poetrysky #poetsofbluesky #Photography #WCK #ECK #ColorADay #OrangeSun 📷 me
Orange Sun
Photograph by Winter Ives
©️2026, All rights reserved. 

A photograph of an exploding Orange Sun over the Pacific Ocean, expressing deep rich reddish-orange hues set against a dramatically darkening sea.
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sifaswriting.bsky.social @sifaswriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many #habitats colours of flora fauna, weather this world is amazing if only you stop and breathe in the crisp cold air or listen to the ocean surf you might find peace in nature #thingstowriteabout #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apologies for the prompt absence due to travel and lack of internet but I’m back! The prompt for Monday October 5th is #over #thingstowriteabout
Words read “recommend you use ped teaspoons per mug, hot water over the chocolate powder.”
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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Re-animated Dead tissue caked the walls, a Habitat changer. #ThingsToWriteAbout #habitat #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
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Ross McDermott @beyondtheonions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#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 · 30/09/2026
homeless camp — a bonfire of campaign signs #thingstowriteabout
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Bluesky @naramoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
#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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