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@tomuseandamuse.bsky.social
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An ode to nature, the otherworldly and the oddities. Stick around for the curious, contemplative and comedic work. Head over to kofi to become a member and unlock benfits: ko-fi.com/niharikagiri

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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 55m
Horror poetry edition of the #inktober2026 challenge Day 7: Panic 🛰️ #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #cosmichorror #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #amwritinghorror #spookyszn
The scientists had finally found life beyond Earth. Only to realise, all these planets were on course for decimation. They were tracking these planets. Thousands down, a hundred more to go. The curse of knowledge, of knowing you can't do anything. With only minutes left for Jupiter to come for the Earth, people scramble around, hopeless but with enough hope to run, with nowhere to go. For years the planet had shielded us from a million rocks. Something made it come our way.
 Something has decided life must end, in all its forms.
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are you in for a chuckle? Read my poem on moths and their prevalence in pop culture. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #humour #meme #writersofbluesky
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Moth
Like a moth to a flame
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 19h
Marty, I won't be crossing the veil this Halloween...... mom says I'm grounded #Halloween #spookyszn #horrorsky (Head over to my page for spooky poems 👻)
Still from Scooby Doo where are you, shows Green ghost holding the phone
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 19h
Marty, I won't be crossing the veil this Halloween...... mom says I'm grounded #Halloween #spookyszn #horrorsky (Head over to my page for spooky poems 👻)
Still from Scooby Doo where are you, shows Green ghost holding the phone
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horror poetry edition of the #inktober2026 challenge Days 5 & 6 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #amwritinghorror #spookyszn
Gloom latches on when you rouse
Despair follows you around
In this barren house 

The floor and ceiling seem to collide
Wanting to swallow you whole
Something watches you from the bedside

Not one sapling survives
In this soil that reeks of decay
A rot that nothing could revive

The hands of the grandfather clock
Move slowly, as does the time
And with it, all the joy it blocks

The birds fly smack into the walls
Not even into the glass windows
Dead animals around the boundary sprawl

Don't be mistaken, this isn’t a haunted house
It is a house that haunts, with a sinister grouse.Marty is the most timid kid in school
He's scared of zombies and the Yeti
The vampires and the werewolves
The ogres, trolls and even Nessie

He lies awake at night
Thinking of things that come in crawling
The slightest sound gives him a fright
He’s tossing in bed till morning

When he grows up he’ll realise
All these monsters might sound scary
But the thing that should frighten him most
Are humans and not the fairies

Things a human does could alarm
But it is never a surprise
We are capable of doing more harm
Than an evil spirit could ever devise
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horror poetry edition of the #inktober2026 challenge Days 5 & 6 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #amwritinghorror #spookyszn
Gloom latches on when you rouse
Despair follows you around
In this barren house 

The floor and ceiling seem to collide
Wanting to swallow you whole
Something watches you from the bedside

Not one sapling survives
In this soil that reeks of decay
A rot that nothing could revive

The hands of the grandfather clock
Move slowly, as does the time
And with it, all the joy it blocks

The birds fly smack into the walls
Not even into the glass windows
Dead animals around the boundary sprawl

Don't be mistaken, this isn’t a haunted house
It is a house that haunts, with a sinister grouse.Marty is the most timid kid in school
He's scared of zombies and the Yeti
The vampires and the werewolves
The ogres, trolls and even Nessie

He lies awake at night
Thinking of things that come in crawling
The slightest sound gives him a fright
He’s tossing in bed till morning

When he grows up he’ll realise
All these monsters might sound scary
But the thing that should frighten him most
Are humans and not the fairies

Things a human does could alarm
But it is never a surprise
We are capable of doing more harm
Than an evil spirit could ever devise
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Inktober2026 #Inktober #horror #halloween #spookyseason #horrorlovers I am doing the Inktober challenge but its a poetry edition. A short poem (preferably horror) for each day's prompt. Here's the poem for Day 1: Apple 🍎
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Horror poetry edition of the #inktober2026 challenge Day 4: Cactus 🌵 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #amwritinghorror #spookyszn
The doctor would tell
“it’ll be a tiny prick”—
everybody lies

The needle enters
like the spine of the cactus—
blood drained from body

Hippocratic oath 
means nothing in this clinic
profit is the God

Do all harm
care is secondary
when greed demands
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Inktober Challenge (horror poetry edition) Day 3: Miniature #inktober2026 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #horror #horrorwriting #creepypasta
Little Tim would sit every day
By the window where he sees the ghost
His mother doesn’t believe him
She tells herself it's an imaginary friend
That's what his father would have thought too


Little Tim was too little 
To be able to tell
He was a spitting image, a miniature
Of the spirit that visits him
At the window, everyday
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Inktober Challenge (horror poetry edition) Day 2: Relic 💍 #inktober2026 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #horror #horrorwriting
Day 2: Relic 

Martha went around giddily, 
telling everyone at the party
about the relic she inherited
recently from her late aunty.

Highly expensive and rare it was
so the word got around, Martha wasn’t slick.
Some felonious people heard it too
and they came up with an evil trick.

A week after the party,
the relic was nowhere to be found.
If only Martha were careful,
she wouldn’t be resting under the ground.
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Inktober2026 #Inktober #horror #halloween #spookyseason #horrorlovers I am doing the Inktober challenge but its a poetry edition. A short poem (preferably horror) for each day's prompt. Here's the poem for Day 1: Apple 🍎
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#nightowl #night #nature #naturelover #poetry #poem #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #writersonbluesky If you are a night owl who thrives after the world goes to sleep, you will enjoy this poem. Check it out here: tomuseandamuse.substack.com/p/light-of-t... Link in bio for more such works.
Excerpt from poem titled "Light of the Night". Reads: The early bird might get the worm
But guess who gets to hear the stories
The trees tell in the night
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#writingcommunity #writing #poetrycommunity #writersofbluesky #naturewriting #nature #substack #imagery Excerpt from my post "Daydreaming" Read the full post here: tomuseandamuse.substack.com/p/daydreaming
I sometimes daydream about being out in nature, being lulled to sleep by the mellow sounds of a waterfall, so close to those gushing water drops chasing after each other in the effortless quest of harmonizing the universal music.
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #haiku #poem #naturewriting #monsoon #rain #writing #poetsofbluesky An excerpt from haiku sequence poem titled "Monsoon" Read full poem: tomuseandamuse.substack.com/p/monsoon
An excerpt from poem titled 'Monsoon' reads: Raindrops dripping
Down the midrib of the leaf—
Ocean falls to Earth.
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excerpt from prose poem "Mooning Over You". Read full poem: tomuseandamuse.substack.com/p/mooning-ov... #writingcommunity #writing #poetry #naturewriting #writers #poets
Excerpt from prose poem "Mooning Over You", reads "You go around the earth, eyeing our rivers and ponds, as your craters lie empty, not even air to fill them.”
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are you in for a chuckle? Read my poem on moths and their prevalence in pop culture. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #humour #meme #writersofbluesky
substack.com
Moth
Like a moth to a flame
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reading something I wrote an hour ago thinking it was a masterpiece: #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetry #writing
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you!
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anyone here from #Substack? Any advice for sharing Substack posts to Bluesky audience? #writingcommunity #poetry #naturewriting #writersofbluesky
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Such a beautiful poem
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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The clouds scrawl their philosophy across a purple morn they preach of softness, and of moving slow and calm. While I rush and trip. This jagged, prickly thing I am— always anxious over something. I try to be more like the clouds, breezing by but the closest I get is when I cry. #sensewrds 267
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Same time last year On the bank, the Banyan's hanging roots Kissed the river's deluge." Read the full poem👇 #poem #haiku #writingcommunity #writing #naturewriting
tomuseandamuse.substack.com
Monsoon
A haiku sequence
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Haiku prompt: trail Grass refusing to grow Under the weight of a thousand footprints A trail amidst the woods #Haiku #writingcommunity #poetry #poem #naturewriting #writing
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why are billionaires obsessing over outer space, when what we have right here is so extraordinary? Nothing beats connecting with mother Earth.
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Haiku prompt: trail Grass refusing to grow Under the weight of a thousand footprints A trail amidst the woods #Haiku #writingcommunity #poetry #poem #naturewriting #writing
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Niharika @tomuseandamuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"All we can do is fawn at how beautiful you look on a full-moon night, take out our phones in an attempt to capture your beauty, only to be left with a blurry white orb in the storage and wonder how something so magnificent can be so camera-shy?" #poetry #writingcommunity #poem #writing
tomuseandamuse.substack.com
Mooning Over You
Gushes of water, so full of life, bubbling out of excitement, rising to their full glory before coming down and retreating to the lap of the majestic mother.
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