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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 June 27, 2025: #CHAOS #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

thunder once rolled across this exhausted landscape and it just might once or twice more again #poetry #cinquain #cloud #sketch

Semi-regular reminder to stay fierce 💜 #art #SciArt

Fluffalumps. #SciArt

#writing #haiku #vss365 #micropoetry #俳句 #nexa Khayyam counts the stars On paths where maps dissolve to lies Riding data streams

and when I awoke rolled up poems corked in hull's holes kept my craft afloat #haiku #micropoetry

Living closer to nature isn't just about enjoying fresh air and pretty scenery. It's also about learning forbidden knowledge from mycellium. 🍄

“Hot weather opens the skull of the city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires of a light bulb.” 📚 Truman Capote, Summer Crossing 🗿Yugi Agematsu, 01-01-2014~12-31-2014 #BookWormSat #summer

Tal vez mi manera de amarte sea con la imaginación #longing

Well, hello, #Poem! I happen to know you'll re-appear in *Becoming Altar*, a full-length collection from Subpress, to come this fall 2025. I'll see you then!

Sneak down the trellis, and weave your way through shadows— the woods are calling. #DailyHaikuPrompt- Trellis #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Poem

dark drowns the garden tiny moths through tangled grass rising like fishes

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 June 26, 2025: #SWALLOW #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Tomorrow #new_moon ~ future music skips on old #vinyl #extrapolation — as days get shorter #grief lessens #sacred #starscape: the world's #mischief meaningless #DailyHaikuPromp #blueskyrelay #BraveWrite #vssdaily #vss365 #HaikuChallenge #whistpr #Rensaku #micropoetry

tanka weekly #poetry challenge June 26, 2025 this week’s prompt: hunger write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #tanka resources to develop your practice: tankasocietyofamerica.org Tanka Society of America: www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

You were so busy staring at the sun that you didn't see the world end. Now these dusty halls are your inheritance. You wander, unseeing, as the dead beseech you from the shadows. "Prophet. Prophet, please. What did you witness?" Alien #starscapes scintillate in your empty sockets. #vss365

If I got hands, says Beach Crow, I wouldn't waste em tippytapping on a frownglass like you. I'd pinch allkinda shineys, & stick up two dainty fingers at passersby, point out the funniest clouds, & invent new mischiefs to surprise meself wiv. Obviously, she says, wings is better. #whistpr #inkMine

*It is 92 Degrees in the Shade* #Haiku #3lines #poetry #prompt #writesky #Skypoets #haikupoetry #micropoetry #spokenword #poetrylovers #blueskypoets #writingprompt #haikucommunity #poetrycommunity #haikufeels #press #haikuchallenge #realism #dailyhaikuprompt #Shade #cozy *Audio On, Please* 🗣 🎙

jdubqca.com/2019/06/21/h... HAUNTED IN AMERICA #poetry <Jun-2019>

pausing with a handful of papers sudden craving to be caught in a sudden rainpour #tanka

no trees grow money, talking to myself has become habit #senryu

moonless night the city far behind me becomes a starscape #DailyHaikuPrompt (new moon) #vss365 (starscape)

Honoured to have a flash piece out in the lovely @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Thank you for giving a home to my little ode to languages and belongings that stretch beyond humanity inkfishmag.com/what-the-bir...

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 June 24, 2025: #SURPRISE #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

In a world in desperate need of more kindness, adding alt text to your images is a simple act of kindness that has a profound impact on people who rely on alt text.

In SATURN'S ARMY, the telekinetic villainess Meteor Strike has to discover who's Making Earth Terrible Again. Hint: it's Saturn, the mecha-mad vice president of an anti-alien golfing society. Join the team on July 3rd! a.co/d/4WVRS1q

mining some ink? spill it #prompts Mon June 23, 2025 Weekly #Prompt - PINCH POINT MAGNOLIA FINGERS CAVORTING HANDS post with hashtag: #inkMine

ghost of a heron ruffling the riverclouds only this faint breeze

There's a big #PrideBookFair sale going on at itchio! I'm part of this bundle of 17 awesome dark fantasy & horror books for $30: itch.io/b/3075/pride... OR you can buy a huge bundle of 110 books for $100!: itch.io/b/3084/pride... Great opportunity to support queer authors & books! #booksky #sff

wave encounters shore– indiscreet sea, overheard murmuring seafoam

Just read that "Jaws" has turned 50. My flower sharks surely are friendly creatures 😀 #sciart

**Submissions open tomorrow, June 23!** Keep tabs on our guidelines page for when the link goes live: www.matchbooklitmag.com/guidelines

#JuneSea = #Swimming Sky fish - 2018 #Phonetography #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #deeperandlookingup #floaty

For the Hermit Fox is a shy creature. Approach too quickly, without establishing a rapport, and the door of the hermit shell, the operculum, will slam shut. But make no mistake, whilst the Hermit Fox is shy they are also fierce, tenacious and protective of their loved ones. 🦊🌘🐚 #Whistpr

too shy for words the mechanical badger greets full moon with a squeaky half-smile 🦡 #whistpr #prompt (shy, mechanical, badger)

in the herb garden a sunbathing butterfly my guru 🦋 #DailyHaikuPrompt (garden) #vss365 (guru)

nothing urgent just the slow joy of writing it down #haiku

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 June 23, 2025: #BADGER #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

Happy #WorldGiraffeDay to an animal so beautifully strange #art