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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

The 11 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#WAR

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#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts

A Pixabay image of a spacesuit-helmeted person on an alien world. The helmet visor reflects the person’s view of the landscape. A golden rectangle highlights the #ScifaikuSaturday hashtag.

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

#ScifaikuSaturday #war #senryu #haiku

war machine
did you forget you’re driven
by an animal

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Hege A. J. Lepri @hegelincanada.bsky.social · 1d

after the war
the victor and victim both
rediscover stars

#SciFaikuSaturday (war) #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

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Laila Amado @amadolaila.bsky.social · 1d

Wind gust at first light
Over the blooming field
A war of petals

#scifaikusaturday #war #haiku

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parkini.bsky.social @parkini.bsky.social · 1d

#Scifaikusaturday

Fizzing telescreen
A message of surrender
The end of the war

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

The derelict drifts,
A last distress signal repeats,
"Country roads, take me..."

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#SciFaikuSaturday #SciFaiku #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #InspiredBy #Alien #RidleyScott #Covenant #JohnDenver #HumanLure #Isolation #Prometheus #CosmicDread #SpaceHorror

a close up of a man 's face with the words " it 's perfectly safe " below him

Alt: a close up of a man's face with the words " it 's perfectly safe " below him

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Rick Milone @rwm1955.bsky.social · 1d

A war nearly lost
Cracks in space/time dimensions
Brings future soldiers

#vsstimetravel #scifaikuSaturday

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FizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 2d

My limbs stretch and screech
There is a #war within me
Part human machine

#scifaikusaturday

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Quinn Qincaid @qincaid.bsky.social · 2d

Old friends, new desire.
Can't forget their word; and yet...
Cold Need drives treason.

Fickle bloom of fire!
World ablaze, in hateful haze -
war is in season.

Cry, oh deadly choir:
Blade talks - The Night Hunter stalks!
Justice the reason.

#OurPoetryX #ScifaikuSaturday
#scifi
#war
#NightHunter

An alien assassin stalks an alien battlefield at night time to eliminate enemy soldiers invading her home world.

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Drew, Allegedly @thescribblings.com · 2d

Saturday, October 11th ~ #Poetry #WritingPrompts 2/2

#HaikuHorrorPrompt Callous
#LuaViEr~1102 #Acrostic Train
#MPPrompt Theme = Never trust _____
#OurPoetryX Night Hunter
#SciFaikuSaturday War

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 2d

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Remembering 'The Twilight Zone' creator Rod Serling

It's been 50 years since the Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer died. But watching reruns of The Twilight Zone confirms that the themes Serling tackled remain relevant.

www.npr.org

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#Fantaiku on Bsky @fantaiku.bsky.social · 1d

From @ayisi_yaw on X, the weekly #Fantaiku #Prompt starting 12 October 2025 is:

#HOG / #BOAR

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Fantasy
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingPrompts

🎨 Non-AI-tagged image: Pixabay | BlackDog1966

#Fantaiku banner. An image of a dragon’s clawed palm raising up a sitting man. They are outside of a castle, in a forest, and having a deep conversation. Non-AI-tagged image credit: BlackDog1966 on Pixabay.

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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 2d

#NYCC Announcement: Into That Darkness Peering, written by me and illustrated by Marika Brousianou is coming to @globalcomix.com on October 15th.

#read our , #EdgarAllanPoe inspired #gothic #horror collection on the platform just in time for #spookyseason. It’s the perfect #book for #halloween.

A black rectangle with a book cover on it. Into That Darkness Peering, by A. A. Rubin and Marika Brousianou. Text on the box has the title and “on global comix October 15.

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SoulScratches @soulscratches.bsky.social · 2d

etched and imperfect
war mind offerings
navigating bombs

#ScifaikuSaturday #haiku

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 2d

vivid reminders
of the war — scattered poppies
in an astral field
#DailyHaikuPrompt #SciFaikuSaturday

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Eric Lahti @ericlahti.bsky.social · 2d

sell both sides weapons
pad the family coffers
job as old as time
#scifaikusaturday

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Eric Lahti @ericlahti.bsky.social · 2d

snuck in our networks
invaded social spaces
won the war with lies
#scifaikusaturday

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fennelsteuert.bsky.social @fennelsteuert.bsky.social · 2d

War season pollen.
Not transgression; it just flows
across space, they say.

#scifaikusaturday #inkmine #haiku

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Hinse Mutter @hinsemutter.bsky.social · 2d

cavern neutrinos
dance skyward through rock and flesh
drones swoop with joy above

#ScifaikuSaturday
#haiku #scifaiku

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Tom 🏛️🎨🖼️🪐🔭📜🖋️🩺🩻🎷🎶🤔📸✈️☸️ @haikutom.bsky.social · 2d

“These humans want war.
Wars of ideology?
There ARE no winners … “

#ScifaikuSaturday
#war
#haiku

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The Mighty Athena | 🇳🇿 @mightyathena.bsky.social · 2d

𝖭𝖾𝗉𝗍𝗎𝗇𝖾'𝗌 𝖶𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖶𝖺𝗋𝗌ᵀᴹ
𝗂𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾'𝗌 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖾𝗇𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖿𝖾 𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾
𝗐𝖾'𝗅𝗅 𝗈𝗎𝗍𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍, 𝗍𝗈𝗈

#ScifaikuSaturday | #war
#scifi #haiku

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 2d

gleitzeit
arbeitsschuhe abgestreift
am flughörnchengehege

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#inkmine #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#scifaikusaturday #senryusunday
#vssdaily #leather #vssmagic #attire
#BSPP42 #blueskyrelay #respite
#dailyhaikuprompt #vivid
#vss365 #verve

published in haiku-heute
october 2025

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Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social · 2d

flexitime
job attire torn off
at the flying squirrel fence

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#2wordprompt #scifaikusaturday
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#inkmine #tempt #work
#vssdaily #shoe #vssmagic #attire
#BSPP42 #blueskyrelay #respite
#dailyhaikuprompt #vivid
#vss365 #verve

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Joe F @joe--f.bsky.social · 2d

Arcade war breakout
Between green Space Invaders
And Galaxian

#haiku
#scifaikusaturday war

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 3d

The 11 October 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is

#WAR

✍️ 👽 🛸 👍

#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts

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Alan Vincent Michaels @alanvmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

In memoriam… #EdgarAllanPoe

died 176 years ago on this day.

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