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Eve Castle
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I write poems & short stories. Published. Retired to Colorado ‘24. TX escapee. #Resist

I’m writing/submitting. Also on Medium now. Be kind, especially to yourself #SafeSpace

Host #TankaThursday #TankaPoem prompt since Jun‘19 #poetry #haiku #tankapoem
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 4d
tanka weekly #poetry challenge

December 4, 2025

this week’s prompt:

apple (or fruit of choice)

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday

#TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

Tanka Society of America:
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
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December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
evecastle.bsky.social
Sharing a (2-min) story titled ‘Heaven-Heaven’ I wrote on Medium for this prompt:

‘The twist is to base your story on the above image and include the daily word. Your magic word is: ‘ACID’

Read about dog Angus & Lorita - a 300 max word vignette prompt on Fiction Shorts.

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Heaven-Heaven
The Vignette Edition #48 — Acid
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December 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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hansschattle.bsky.social
Heartbreaking and blatantly un-American. These events are celebrations with lots of family members and friends on hand. Now the people turned away will worry that Trump might try to force them out of the country. What a mistake for America, too. No doubt each one of these people has lots to offer.
sweetadelinevt.bsky.social Sarah Betancourt @sweetadelinevt.bsky.social · 1d
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
Non-U.S. residents required to pay entrance fees on “free” days at National Parks under the new "America-first pricing" policy.

At 11 of the country's national parks, international visitors will be charged an extra $100 above the standard entrance fee.

effective 1/1/26

www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national par...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
evecastle.bsky.social
Dates you can get in free at U.S. National Parks has changed.

Along with MLK Day and Juneteenth, National Public Lands Day and the anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act were removed. Trump’s birthday added.🤦🏻‍♀️

#NationalParks #MLK #Juneteenth #TrumpBirthday

www.sfgate.com/national-par...
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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all winter
the apple tree’s bare bough
curved and elongated
so many yoga poses
I cannot master
 
Kathy Kituai, Ribbons Spring/Summer, Never Ending Story 2017

#TankaThursday apple/fruit

#tanka #5lines #micropoetry #tankapoem
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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#OurPoetryX @ourpoetryx.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Our haiku prompts for Dec 6-13.

Use them as you will.

The writing is the point.

12/06 December Cherries
12/07 Desolation Green Leaves
12/08 North Wild Iris
12/09 Breath Cool Evening
12/10 Camillia Grazing
12/11 Star Fragrance
12/12 Snowflake Roots
12/13 Dark Cloud Waterfall

Cold moon —
among […]
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December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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December’s #BlueSkyPoetry Prompts

Title: “December Tinsel”

“A verse a day warms December’s way.”

Use the exact hashtag #BSPP48 to share each of your creations for any of the days of December that you choose to write.

#BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP48 #poetry #poetryCommunity #December
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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early December
a half bushel of apples
on the weighing scale
my mind already flipping
through cobbler recipes
#TankaThursday #tanka #DailyHaikuPrompt
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Hello Blue Sky writers, you're invited to join me every Sunday for #SenryuSunday. There are no prompt words, just post your original Senryu poem to the hashtag, & visit the hashtag to enjoy everyone else's work. Here's a link with more information on the Senryu form
akitahaiku.com/what-are-hai...
What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?
What are Haiku, Senryu and Tanka?   To help you get started, here is a short introduction to Japanese poetry styles.   What are Haiku?   Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 morae…
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November 16, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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jason-h-abbott.bsky.social
Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 07-DEC-25 is:

Tangled & Want

#Prompt
December 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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howdy, y'all!
today's #haikufeels #prompt is

quiz
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Hello everyone.

The #blueskyrelay prompt for December 7 is #rift

@ewiggins66.bsky.social is the #BlueSkyRelay host December 3-9.

Thank you for your fabulous posts!🐬🏝️🐳
ewiggins66.bsky.social Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning all! Your #blueskyrelay for today is another short word with more than one meaning. The #prompt is:

#rift

Looking forward to reading your offerings!
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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poetguygabe.bsky.social
Hello everyone.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for December 7 is #date

Please welcome @rlincolnharris.bsky.social as the #7syllablesentence host
December 7-13.

Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence

Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🏝️🐳
rlincolnharris.bsky.social rlincolnharris.bsky.social @rlincolnharris.bsky.social · 12h
Greetings from Chicago! I’m looking forward to inspiring some terse creativity on Bluesky this week.

Since December 7, 1941 was a “date which will live in infamy” I’m offering the word #date as my first prompt. Take your best shot at infamy!

#7syllablesentence #date
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
love is a place
#poem by E.E. Cummings
#SmallPoemSunday

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

#poetry #BlueskyPoetry
love is a place BY E.E. Cummings love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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danmulhall.bsky.social
The strong geese claim the sky again
…
Blind to their huge, water-carved charts,
our blood dull to the tug of poles,
we are tuned still to the rising & dying of light
and we still share their need
to nest & to journey.
Moya Cannon ‘Migrations’ #IrishPoetry
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Louise Glück #poetry
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
@poetryfoundation
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
I’ve reported an inaccuracy on a Google AI Overview that states the ICE raid of 450+ Koreans at the Hyundai plant in Georgia was “late 2024.”

That would mean it happened under Biden but the ICE raid occurred under Trump. The actual date was September 4, 2025.

Reminder: AI is not error free
Screen shot of a question asked on Google December 4, 2025 showing error in provided information about when ICE raid occurred - Google response shows “late 2024” in two places when the raid occurred September 4, 2025: Is the Georgia Hyundai plant open? ^ Al Overview response: Yes, the new Hyundai plant in Georgia is still open for construction and development, although its official opening has been delayed by several months due to an immigration raid that occurred in late 2024. The plant is still slated to be a massive $7.6 billion campus near Savannah, and recent reports indicate that the company plans to expand its investment by an additional $2.7 billion to increase production rates and create more jols. • Status: The plant is still under development and is not yet open for full production. • Delayed Opening: The expected opening date has been pushed back by a minimum of two to three months following an immigration raid at the site in late 2024. o • Future Plans: Despite the delay, Hyundai is proceeding with the development, and there are plans to expand the project with an additional $2.7 billion investment to increase production and add more jobs. • Location: The facility is located along Interstate 16, west of Savannah. Q hyundai ev plant georgia This error has been reported to Google. If you ask “when did the raid at the plant occur” the date Google provides is correct so not sure why it’s inaccurate on this related question.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
I know you still use Wikipedia and it’s a great place to go to confirm AI results. I’m a monthly donor. Don’t forget to support this unique FREE online encyclopedia.

Content on Wikipedia is backed by citations so you can find the original source.

Support link below.

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December 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Two #haiku from the latest Autumn Moon Haiku Journal edited by Astrid Andreescu and Kristen Lingquist:

dawn choral
a blackbird fills the ivy
with notes of light

tilling the land
the earth turns slowly
under our feet

Link to many more poems: www.autumnmoonhaiku.com

#micropoetry #nature
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
evecastle.bsky.social
Read my review of Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Eve Castle's review of Diving Into the Wreck
4/5: Diving into the Wreck shared the 1974 National Book Award for Poetry with Allen Ginsbergs’ The Fall of America. This is my second reading of these poems. The first reading was probably around the...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Pools
Ink/Acrylic
48”x12”
Stephen Ferris
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
evecastle.bsky.social
Cathy Park Hong
#HighlightedPoet
long #quote

“See! Anyone can live the American Dream! they'd say about a doctor who came into the country already a doctor.”
Back then, only select professionals from Asia were granted visas to the United States: doctors, engineers, and mechanics. This screening process, by the way, is how the whole model minority quackery began: the U.S. government only allowed the most educated and highly trained Asians in and then took all the credit for their success. See! Anyone can live the American Dream! they'd say about a doctor who came into the country already a doctor. Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
evecastle.bsky.social
We’ve always been monsters… murdering, cold-blooded monsters.

We can also look back to what we did to Native Americans.

& not just Americans. Look at WWII & wars where Americans weren’t even involved.

I’m talking about human beings. What an awful lot we are.

Now: 2025 Venezuelan boatmen
#BeBest?
evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 1d
Excerpts from Burning Oneself In
—Adrienne Rich #poetry

***
In a bookstore on the East Side
I read a veteran’s testimony:

the running down, for no reason
of an old woman in South Vietnam
by a U.S. Army truck
…

in bookstores, in the parks
however we may scream we are
suffering quietly
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Burning Oneself In In a bookstore on the East Side I read a veteran's testimony: the running down, for no reason of an old woman in South Vietnam by a U.S. Army truck The heat-wave is over Lifeless, sunny, the East Side rests under its awnings Another summer The flames go on feeding and a dull heat permeates the ground of the mind, the burn has settled in as if it had no more question of its right to go on devouring the rest of a lifetime, the rest of history Pieces of information, like this one blow onto the heap they keep it fed, whether we will it or not, another summer, and another of suffering quietly in bookstores, in the parks however we may scream we are suffering quietly Poem by Adrienne Rich, 1972 Book Diving into the Wreck
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM