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🧡💛🤍💚 A forgetful, random nerd and an oft' anxious but optimistic nihilist 🖋️ 3 Lines/Senryu/Haiku/Tanka 🖊️ Ekphrasis dabbler 📖 🍿 🎮 🎧 🇬🇧- Geeky- ND- INFP- Dyscalculic- Reader- Ailurophile- 🎮 ♠️ 📸📖🎥 Horror/Thriller/Fantasy/History/SciFi/Musicals/Anime ✨ 💀

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2d

My wings are wide to guard my hoards,
But my gaze rests on the quiet word;
The greatest wealth is found within.

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#KazThoughts #KumquatDragon #DragonLogic #TreasuredWords #CreativeWriting

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 56m

His mind, too far gone...
What sanity remains, falls, in trembling #tatters,
Your name, on his lips.

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#HaikuFeels #DailyPrompt #ThreeLines #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #DarkPoetry #HorrorPoetry #Broken #PsychologicalHorror #GothicHorror #InescapableDoom #MentalRuin #FinalWhispers

Anne @annemorrigan.bsky.social · 14h

おはよう feelsfam
today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is

tatters

👉 check my pinned post for more info

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shippers1871.bsky.social @shippers1871.bsky.social · 5h

There wasn't anything she could put her finger on. He was never anything other than nice. It was just an #undertone when they were alone. Like a slightly out of focus photo.
That night he offered her a lift home. It was the natural thing to do. She was grateful. He was kind.

But...

#vss365

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Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 21h

Devour Your Nice Things
Burn the fancy candle.
Wear the special-occasion dress.
Pop the good bottle.
Scribble hurry slowly on the first page
of your leather-bound notebook.
Gorge on your pearls,
your cashmere, your silks.
Use the high-end eyeshadow
until the silver pan winks back.
Baptize your wrists in Baccarat Rouge,
a little extra for the collar.
Devour your nice things—
don't let the best go cold on your plate.
The anticipation of living is empty calories
and you were meant to be full.
Elise M Powers

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2h

#PalpableFear ... Though tasty fear might work too I suppose? 😅🤣

Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2h

The air, fuming, heavy,
Charcoal #filters hold back just enough breath,
But won't stop cold dread.

😷 🌫️

#WSS366 #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #IndustrialPoetry #BattleFieldPoetry #PalatableFear #GasMask #Claustrophobic #MechanicalFailure

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Holy Hera 🪞🧿✨ @holyhera.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the fear of losing
that draws out
the darkness.

The fear of losing
what you think
you need.

And the way
you choose
to protect yourself—

having those fears
qualified,
so you don’t have to change.

#Poetry #Poem #SkyPoet

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 2h

The wind through the eaves,
Whispers a haunted, horrifying #ballad,
The words... half remembered?

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#BlueSkyRelay #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #Supernatural #GhostStories #PhantomWords #FolkHorror #Eerie #Forgotten

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Sara @spauffwrites.bsky.social · 16d

“Goodnight,” he says with a kiss.
“Good morning, love,” she replies, but he’s out like a light, #sonorous snores echoing in the dark. He burned all day while she waited in his shadow. Now she rises, wan and exhausted, a woman’s work never done. She must pull the tides, guide the lost home. #vss365

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 6h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 3h

Their hand does not shake,
But the small wound's enough to drain,
The last of their strength.

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#HorrorPrompt #DailyPrompt #Lancet #MicroPoem #PoetrySky #ThreeLines #ClinicalHorror #SurgicalPrecision #SlowDrain #BodyHorror #Surgical #MedicalTerror #PerfectWound

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 6h

"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books."
- Thomas Carlyle
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #books #writing

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 17h

a drawing of a dragon in a heart with the words " sending a virtual dragon hug "

Alt: a drawing of a dragon on a heart with the words " sending a virtual dragon hug "

media.tenor.com

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

The beam is pure light,
It #illuminates, every nerve,
Lain bare, transparent.

💡 🫥

#BlueSkyRelay #Lumen #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DailyPrompt #BrightHorror #ExistentialDread #Vulnerability #BodyHorror #SciFiPoetry #ClinicalHorror #Experimental

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scoopskie.bsky.social @scoopskie.bsky.social · 1d

She is always just out of sight
A glimpse in the corner of my eye
A shadow passing by

At the edge of consciousness
A flash of a memory
Forever she haunts me

This shade of who I was
And I try to leave behind
Eternally on the edge of mind

#emoetry #haunted

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

We crave the last flash,
𝘙𝘶𝘪𝘯 is strangely titillating,
But 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥? #Sublime.

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#BlueSkyRelay #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #DarkPoetry #DarkAesthetic #FlashPoint #BrightHorror #PsychologicalHorror #VoiceInTheVoid #AweAndTerror #TheEndIsNigh #CosmicDread #ExistentialHorror

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 of "31 Days of Spooky/Dark/Horror Poetry".
Today it's "Whispers on the Stairs", originally published Jan 2011 in Issue 1 of Trembles.

Background image digital manipulation of image by Efraimstochter obtained from Pixabay. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License.

Whispers on the Stairs

by Richard H. Fay

Something unseen whispers on the stairs
As I enter the decrepit keep.
Brooding shadows gather around me
As I ascend the moss-covered steps.
Dreadful murmurs echo in my head
As a fey wraith creeps ever closer.

Something unknown whispers on the stairs
As a spectral presence drifts past me.
My flaming torch flickers and goes out
As if extinguished by a strange draught.
Cold sweat beads on my clammy forehead
As midnight blackness envelops me.

Something frightful whispers on the stairs
As I seek to understand the words.
A droning voice speaks in ancient tongues
As a foul fiend mutters to itself.
Fell and fearful thoughts enter my mind
As I face a diabolic foe.

Something evil whispers on the stairs
As I strive to exorcise the beast.
Fiery fingers close about my throat
As the demon tries to choke my words.
Courage fails and I flee the fortress
As Lucifer's spawn laughs on the stairs.

(Originally published in Trembles, Issue #1, January 2011.)

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

The silver wire,
Ever so perfect, pulled #taught,
The slightest sound... just... stops...

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#HorrorPrompt #Taught #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #HorrorPoem #DarkPoetry #GothicLit #ShortHorror #Fear #Suspense #Horror #Tension #FinalSilence #NoEscape

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 1d

and somewhere
the first heartbeat
begins again
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

Their new freedom, a burden, found only #Desolate hope here.

#HaikuFeels #OneLineOctober #Monoku #Singers #StormlightArchive

Anne @annemorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

ahoy, feelsfam
today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is

desolate

👉 check my pinned post for more info

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 1d

#Piranha (a human study)

attacks are rare,
and usually only
when dense packing
lends both courage and fear

when hunger mixes
with scent of weakness
the current runs red,
and we are lost

#vss365

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Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social · 1d

A life for a life?
#Desolation and sinew,
The die is cast.

🎲 🩸

#HaikuFeels #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #MicroPoem #ThreeLines #CursedFate #TheDieIsCast #MythicSacrifice #DarkPoetry #IrrevocableFate

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Jason H. Abbott @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social · 1d

“System check is go,” the engineer said.

“Pod’s sluggish, but we’re in the leviathan’s blood stream,” the pilot added.

The captain nods. “Time to the target injury?”

“15 minutes, Sir,” the xenobiologist answered.

“Good. We hurt this thing, now let’s heal it.”

#vss #sff

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Mollie Grace @msfulofgrace.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365
#raincoat

The cutest sight the townsfolk could see
Came on days when it was gray, rainy
Brightened up by
Toddlers march by
In their vibrant raincoats so shiny

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 1d

They made this body
An accursed vessel, doomed
To house lost god's names.
#WeirdMicro #AccursedVessel #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@weirdmicro.bsky.social

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 1d

Strangers
in the night,

I saw him,
at my window

a figure
in shadow

familiar,
like a memory
of a dream

hand reaching
pulling me foward,
there in the darkness

a sweet kiss gifted,
lips on mine
that lingered
before his
soul drifted

a
   w
      a
         y

#bedroomeyesprompt

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