🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Prove what you're made of. Don't think about it, don't talk about it, don't plan it, don't justify something less, don't deny what you can be by embracing mediocrity. Prove it. For youself. For your life, your existence, your legacy. ASAP. 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026chunks of chopped trees charred by chomping hangry flames roast the perfect dog #DailyHaikuPrompt #fire #senryu 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ends of thorny stems smells of colored ruffled bells wrapped in a bouquet #DailyHaikuPrompt #stems #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #amwriting 040
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026sand between my toes salty waves spreading evenly racing toward my legs cresting over my ankles the sound of splashing waterfalls crashing tubes from clear to white beat the earth and beat the earth under fading, colored skies as the sun sets on fire into the lonely, blue-green ocean #vss365 #island 050
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026leaves blocking the sun gradients of green glitter summer's last warm breeze #DailyHaikuPrompt #warmsun 041
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026after God closed all the doors and left a window open we nailed the shutters down but demons thick as #clouds kept pushing, pushing in we had our weight against a door when the hinges broke gnarly hands clawed at the gaps we thought we had the demons beat until our kids went out to play #vss365 031
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026wake shower food traffic meeting computer phone computer phone meeting food scrolling phone computer meeting phone phone meeting computer my car bakes inside I wait to start it window lets in a cool breeze my hand is like an aeroplane new music sunset food scrolling sleep #vss365 #reprieve 041
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026cursed thrice by a pin-witch her needle pricks even across my forehead three crusty trickles of blood fired from work left by the love of my life and my body lies weak on the pavement though she promised peace this is not what I imagined I should have given her my toes 001
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026flat planets spin like plates scattered after a sharp turn in a catering truck their blue oceans ever trail into white pinwheels aginst the blackness of space scientists predict the end, #soon but this is nonsense planets are spheres our oceans will never dry according to social media #vssdaily 060
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I want no part of it this digital bloodbath so easy to generate something good enough empty sadness trails behind like half-severed limbs leaving bloody tracks leading away from an altar built hap-hazardly by greedy hands with dollar-sign myopia humanity is erasing itself I object #vss365 #conflict 1102
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a clean slate an empty canvas everything is unknown a raw ingredient one puzzle piece nothing has been done the first pangs of hunger a flood of nerve impulses emotion consumes all bandwidths a stem peeks through the soil an unblossomed bud waits before the outside intervenes #vss365 #infancy 050
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026half in, half out time's gentle stream cool and dark at first pushing our bare feet towards its end that vicious #ledge no one escapes some are blessed ever advancing past corpses people we knew hair falling out bones aching until we, too get swept over we fall and time goes on without us #vssdaily 020
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026change, when it #commence s first shows all the ugly differences confirms the doubts we held inside most prefer the mediocrity of ease so they revert, retreat, resume back to the simple, safe, familiar but not us we burn bridges turn rescue boats away march face first into the storm #vss365 0102
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026silent, janky lines remembered ancient stories spinning in the sky #DailyHaikuPrompt #constellations 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026snap snap some heads off thwip thwip some deep roots up, out weed-pull nirvana #DailyHaikuPrompt #nirvana 040
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The first had golden hair Her braids led to a lair The second danced around a fire Distracted them with pure desire The third made scheming plans Trapped them, tied their hands The fourth brewed glowing potions Soon owned their full emotions Like human #palimpsest Now husbands to a coven #vss365 051
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026in stillness lay an untouched morning while the sun hid down, below the hills its yellow glow mixing with baby blue I wait for rays to light upon the trees wait to see the moment the exact, specific, momentus click when the new day begins 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026seven years until the end when bots have combed creation information traffic flows so thick with electric glut humans leave life behind a single hyper-processed food automatically dispersed in bags for personal intravenous use while the Earth lays pacified by stolen regurgitated media #vss365 #comb 072
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026bright sunflower blooms catch scorching summer heat rays with dancing faces #DailyHaikuPrompt #boisterous 030
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026At the edge of the map Ocean falling, drifting into space Part of my soul followed I am outside of myself When I return home Staring at the night sky What kind of boat Can take us To the stars 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 08/07/2026looping, reflecting curved bicycle pedal bars white lights from above 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026lost in space again uncharted stars, absent beacons 1-8-0 this mofo #haiku-ish 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026new prosthetic minds silicon-embedded thoughts surely left behind #haikufeels #amwriting #haiku #senryu #embed 050
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026we argued for an hour sweaty and red faced, so stubborn something had to be done went to market in the dimensional rift the cyborg serpent had four ray guns bought the nonfatal option after I shot her she didn't sleep she just looked... different it was actually a #stunning ray we made up #vss365 041
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026glittering aspen blue spruce needles catch the sky finches crowd beneath #haiku #poetry #micropoetry 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026socks-stuck foxtails sunburned necks and sweat stains fading in the pool #senryu #haiku #poetry 030
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I prefer the sting of sand carried in dusty, pelting waves of flowing folds like sheets or flags continuously danced by the wind sometimes shot by tiny guns carving back the rocks to works of random art but on my skin somehow tiny bits of pain expose remind and I reflect change by some degree #poem 020
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026three days of fierce winds dust and dried leaves in our eyes fires that don't stay lit at first then raging consuming burning flames eat our homes and fields remind us of our place in this universe of entropy when storms bring mud we rebuild barren lands into monuments of the #disgruntled #vss365 062
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026tens, hundreds, thousands tens and hundreds of thousands stop in the millions #senryu #haiku #amwriting 031
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Earth spins, green and blue cosmonauts preserve their breath think of iris blooms #DailyHaikuPrompt #wildiris 030
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026fine gray dust, add rocks mix a bit into batter hot summer pancakes #senryu #haiku #writersofbluesky #micropoetry #amwriting 150
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026red sandstone cliffs stand silent above the noise vacation weekend #haiku #senryu #poetry #amwriting #micropoetry 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026humans adapt again critical thought creativity physical connection work all outsourced to digitized superintelligence their skin grayed with mediocrity bodies chemically sustained echoes of desire fade #intent replaced with structure machine-like repetition easing into a global average same #vss365 061
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026distant, mute flashes warn the ignorant masses soon to be ashes #DailyHaikuPrompt #thunder #haiku #prompt #poetry 040
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Rosy came running Red hair flowing in the breeze Tongue beyond her teeth #haiku #senryu #poetry 040
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026the cat named Apricot raised in a studio apartment by his human left alone for weeks following global apocalypse (in 2099) learned to walk on his hind legs to operate a can opener to wield the arcane arts through his staff of elmwood taken from the dog's toy basket oh Fido died of #lightning #vss365 072
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026it's not hard to find them trace battery signals beneath the dust their drip drip drip electron waltz too weak for photons but I hear them I push my neoprene hands deep retrieve an old bot from limbo this one fought to end humanity its soul, once betrayed by creators finds peace #vss365 #psychopomp 070
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026falling from gray skies trickling down clear mountain streams raging into white #DailyHaikuPrompt #calm #haiku #prompt 040
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 19/04/2026beyond the asteroid belt we thought drifting into empty space off balance lost our connection only briefly gravity that #trickster pulled us down its well accelerating us toward its time-dilated depths six hours of frantic science thirty years of messages from home screaming in all at once #vss365 092
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Looking forward to looking back on all of this. There are no puppets at the end of my strings, no buttons or levers to manipulate, only time, that great behemoth, marching us through and beyond this time of uncertainty and sorrow, which no human can stop. This too shall pass. 000
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026light, silent wings snow-bright blossoms turn gray the crane's shadow #vssdaily #blossom #crane #haiku #prompt 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026with skin of many tones over gray and brittle bones he lives in every climate zone builds towers, tools, and homes speaks words and writes in tomes invented globe-connected phones scared to lose all that he owns prefers to live alone #vss365 #man 162
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026it's raining 8 families are dealing with cancer in a 4x4-block square of suburbia we're complaining about having to replace windows 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026the room four beige corners spinning ergonomic chairs electric screens of varied size and its dark-framed window I am not trapped inside like the others the setting sun yellow on the moving clouds sneaks into view soaring beyond the jagged edges suddenly, secretly I am flying free for a moment 010
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026boasting all winter evergreen needles resist bright, singing blossoms #DailyHaikuPrompt #equinox #haiku #poetry #prompt 170
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026pie on the porch sunny Spring afternoon cold, winter lingers #Haiku 030
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Corner on the market Kitty corner Certain corners of society Corner table Craft Corner A Corner lot Just around the corner Dark corners of the internet Out of the corner of her eye Getting cornered about time shares Painting yourself into a corner Promoted to the corner office #vss365 #corner 051
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026bright jagged twine strobes above thick skies clouds like curly fries #DailyHaikuPrompt #lightning 020
🌯 Benny Barido 🌯 @xdftl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026emotions like chemicals and maybe, actually, chemicals resist grand, dramatic force instead cut patient, sentimental pathways, deep into the granite they fester now eddying without end spinning and spinning faster slick mossy slickrock sends my soul skittering down the waterfall #poetry 010