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A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 3, 2025: #NECTAR #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
Thank you, Tré! 🧡🍬🍂
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this little spider in the dark under the stairs so comfortable
ginger sweets this long slow journey to autumn #DailyHaikuPrompt (spice)
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for September 1, 2025: #ANGLE #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
∴ mend my ragged soule 'pon thy constellation writ star-steered fool am i · these midnȳght mists abstract lusts claw, bite, & yearn schāpening, seeker ∴ #senryusunday #vss365 #haikufeels #whistpr #poemspell
already falling late sun filling with honey the gaps between leaves
holding your hand in mine walking into the night is the fulfillment of all my yearnings xxyxxy.com/blog/BHMW8ekq #poetry #cinquain #desert #sketch
🪄 ✨ let’s drink coffee and write ghazals 🪄 ✨
Another one to celebrate the last day of #InverteFest! Illustration from my next book with an extravaganza of insects #SciArt #art
#DailyHaikuPrompt #mist #freshwater lake mist a shaft of sunlight reveals the mallard's colours
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Our latest issue is out now ICYMI 👇🏻 Also... today is our second birthday! 🥳🎂 I'm so proud of our little zine. We are publishing *extraordinary* work, my friends. Thank you to everyone who has submitted, read, shared, supported us. You're amazing! ❤️🔥
Perfect weather for mischief. Thank you, Athena! 🧡☠️
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Thanks ever so much, David! 🧡☠️
sea mist blows in beach crows laughing salty as ghost pirates #DailyHaikuPrompt (mist)
Today I'm reading - Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror ~ By Kelli Russell Agodon 🍂 America breaks my heart some days - I watched a woman have a breakdown in the mall today/what l could see was all of us/Some days the sky is too bright. And like that, we were her-
Thanks ever so much for hosting!
misty hills veiling September from August #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry
Thanks very much, TD! 🧡🌌
lose threads in my sweater, the day's are much cooler now #senryu
misty morning~ i wade into a lake of silver silence
Here's a variation on a Picasso bug for #InverteFest. Took liberties with the colors, but the design is not far off! Worth looking up images of the real thing. Nature is a wonder and so are trans folks 💜
Quote with your red art ❤️
Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
Hahaha! I think I have met these sheep 🧡🐑
Countless numerous Plethora variety Multitude dozens Numberous bevy Hundred multitudes Innumerable myriads #dada #dadapoem #dailypoem #poemoftheday #poem #poetry #writing
#poetry all of our telescopes aimed to find you winding the shimmering
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'Variations of red' crimson clouds crossing the river where pine trees stand chill riding the waves of eternity carried by the scent of fading summer go with the swallows fade to silence embrace autumn's silver balm #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #dailyhaikuprompt (crimson)
Thank you, Steve! 🧡🌌
Thank you, Joe! 🧡🌌
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX
nova stellae bright new constellation in our dark skies we peer at her talking dust and gases nebulae while in our hearts we give her secret names wishing our future changed #ScifaikuSaturday (nova) #vss365 (constellation) #whistpr (peer)
Drew quite a few invertebrates during my May trans art project, including this lovely little crustacean. Trans is beautiful 💜 #InverteFest
Where there was something #malignant now there is an open plot - the uneaten bones clean & strong as a #bookshelf - a secret garden thicketed in scar tissue, scar tissue pulled loop by loop into a more embracable shape. I am thorned but also flowered. I will make this hole a haven. #vss365 #whistpr
On the bookshelf gold dipped words & mythical adventures. Inspirations on fragile pages, flower petals & leaves inbetween. Thin shadows of colour that fall at your feet as you look for stories. Straightened spines in dusty jackets. A world balanced with the magic falling out. #whistpr bookshelf.
Aquarius raised his point to Andromeda a cosmic streetlight guiding the stargazing eyes of his most artful student #TankaPoem #TankaThursday
'My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls.' Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police #BookWormSat (dystopias) 🎨 Aya Takano
night of falling leaves a thousand names at once become the wind - Deborah A. Bennett Plum Tree Tavern, June 2022
i am a ghost in the park swing too crescent moon - Deborah A. Bennett Lothlorien Poetry Journal, September 2023
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∴ 𝔣ox-𝔣yr 𝔣lickers pawprints patch þe drifting dusk gnashers sift moongrain · hedge-snouts snicker boughes barter riddled rymes huckles crown oure way · slye wight bowes, þen springes tayle a spark o' mirthsome smōk laghter spredeth nyght ∴ #poemspell #poetry #poem #fox 🗣️🗝️ þ - "th" as in thin
eleven o’clock the streetlights of Manchester a little like dawn the stars in daylight reflected in the river that secret dazzle some leftover rain shaken out of the rowan scattering sunlight
mining some ink? spill it #prompts August 29, 2025 Weekend #Prompt - ENVY (any form of the word) sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku post with the hashtag: #inkMine
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Bravo! 👏✒️👏 I've had so many comments, I stopped using the haiku hashtag.
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There are millions of ants scurrying around us on this Earth, some carry leaves but many carry words upon their backs, and perhaps the least welcomed of these is the #malignant. #vss365
Oh, flocculent dragons! A gloriously epic story thread. 👏🧡📚🧡👏
this evening bitterness mixing with the taste of tea #senryu
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
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Thanks ever so much, Marilyn 🧡🍃
Send us your tiny stories! ✨
So clever! 👏🌳👏
Here's my feeble attempt at a triad - this was a good challenge @po3try.bsky.social 😊🌳 #po3try #threeling
#Sentience bloomed in moss like a rash, each cell awakening to sip at the suburb's underbelly. It chittered wetly through cracks, concrete sweating green. It wove cuneiform across Mavis's burnt lawn, later interpreted by a local scholar as pleas for Mr Brown's moreish sleeping pills. #vss365
Here's my rendition of the ethereal Spoonwing Lacewing, ink and watercolor #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
It's dangerous to go alone....so what invertebrate are you taking with you? #Invertefest This guy
Scarab beetle for #InverteFest
if you see this, quote post your cat art! 💙🐈⬛ #Cheshire #Illustration #Art
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Aw, thank you very much, Steve. 🧡🍃
Thanks ever so much, Athena! 🧡🍃
We are secrets of a once great wood. In roots and tangle, thorns and creeper. At summer's end we tell the old stories. Enchantments in blackberries. Unkept vows in burrs. Revenge in nettle stings. Our moths dance as the light did long ago. Listen. Robin sings of all we loved. #whistpr (thicket)
A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for August 27, 2025: #THICKET #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity
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a drafts folder but for feelings
An insect comic from my archive, featuring an indecisive hoverfly. #invertefest #invert
Enjoying #InverteFest? I am! Share your invertebrate art and photos with the hashtag!
You're late. Bills, meetings, deadlines. You're late. Birthdays, appointments, rent. You're lying in the woods while acorns rattle around your skull and mice nest in your ribs. The watch on your wrist continues to tick like a cricket as night falls. You're late. #whistpr #late
Days 23-25 of #AuGhost2025! 23, zig/zag 24, gelatinous and 25, page! And I’m finally caught up :)
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ever listen to the sound of words …not their meaning how they feel in your body resonating through each inner organ reverberating in-between bones penetrating muscles until a resting place is found… each time the ear hears the sound of a word (rest of poem in comment section)
Read, then read some more you’ll be unstoppable my goodness you’ll soar ih #read #reading #books #unstoppable #poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Having completed their first moult ahead of their parents, early fledged #robins will be checking themselves out in #August Spotty plumage has been replaced by showy scarlet. From September, previously silent females will sing, competing with males for territory; both will bear red breasts #birds
#vss365 who can say where #sentience begins: moss, tree bird, me?
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mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon August 25, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - ROSE BEGIN ROSETTE BEGAN ROSEATE BEGUN post with hashtag: #inkMine
Love that. Loved evap. 🧡
slowly it is poured over slices of sunday evaporated milk
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cold peaches slices of childhood in a can #DailyHaikuPrompt (peaches)
wonderful 🧡☁️
'Born beneath those eternal grey faces, their stern look never fades-' cold clouded ridges late summer mist, mingled with childhood memories * Var. I clouded peak faint childhood memory * Var. II distant peaks veiled by mist childhood dreams #haiku #stunday #poetry #photography #EastCoastKin
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got to read a favorite poem to some adorable farm friends
When Meteor Strike clashes with a newly-formed girl group & the president, who will emerge victorious? Join the team in DAUGHTERS OF ERIS, the satirical third book in the Meteor Strike superhero series. Releasing 9/9/25, preorder now. 🪐📚 a.co/d/6vLNiIf
For your inspiration @artbyseranya.bsky.social #RetroArtPrompt #Love #Prompt 24.8.2025: 1) Root Work I plant collards n’ hoodoo where y’all been Deep down- Old hands humin’ low like church pew wood Still warm- The rain don’t care ‘bout a bank account 🔻
The big Narratess Indie Book Sale is in full swing! Check out the sale at indiebook.sale where you can sort by genre & price to narrow down your choices. I've thrown together a quick blog post highlighting a few of my favorites (and I've downloaded quite a few more books for my TBR list as well!)
The sea is cold and grey, while the beach is empty due to the wind and rumors of a sea #serpent. A barefoot figure in a sweater kneels before the tide. #Luminescent green coils ripple beneath the surface. The figure slowly pulls the sweater's cuffs over its scales before leaving. #whistpr
I offer my apologies to the #serpent; sinuous, quiet, frankly lovely when considered at a distance sleeping in a palm of sun. What comparison is there really, between a perfect knot & the fisted nut at the heart of a #malformed man? Given a choice, I would rather hold the snake. #whistpr #vss365