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It's my favorite translation of the tao te ching

Thank you 🐬🏝️🐳

The mellow sound of the #horn

#7syllablesentence #writing #writingcommunity

He wore a black bow tie
I wore a #chic red dress

His eyes sparkled
As did my lipstick

We walked across the hall
Towards each other

He sided pass, to kiss the blonde
I went to drown, in the punch bowl

#vss365

over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekend Prompt: CONSIDER use any form of the prompt word in a sixword, tenword, tanka or haiku please credit art & photos combo prompts welcome post with the hashtag #inkMine

mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Dec 05, 2025

Weekend #Prompt - CONSIDER
(any form of the word)
sixword~tenword~tanka~haiku

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

Train horn sounds around track's bend

#7syllablesentence #horn

tao te ching, Stephen Mitchell translation

"Do you have the patience to wait
'til your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
'til the right action arises by itself?"

tao te ching, Stephen Mitchell translation

Remembrance I don’t want to remember my grandparents ill and dying. I want to remember their kindness, their lust for life, how warm- hearted my grannies were, how caring. How Opa Hermann learned to walk again after his hip fracture and how Opa Erwin, fresh out of hospital, went straight to the garden, because he had a hedgehog to take care of.

#thingstowriteabout #hedgehog

in memory of my grandparents

Have you seen that #red bird
sitting on the red tree?
Now it's flying through
the red sky, his red wings
hardly visible against
the red background.
And if this was a red painting,
the red title would read
"Blue Person in a Red Landscape"

#whistpr

Military #chic
roams the streets again
Warmongers at every corner,
selling tickets for a lottery
that has no winners
Bulletins from the frontline
reach us every hour
I fear the day they
will become bullets

#vss365

KI #era
German word of the year
the algorithm said

#BlueSkyRelay

‘What do you think of my outfit?’

‘Interesting. Are you getting ready to go into combat?’

‘I’m trying to make camouflage look #chic.’

‘Well, I don’t see it.’

#vss365

after the storm
sea glass sorted
by the tide
#haiku #poetry

old boots —
still remembering
younger legs
#haiku #poetry

cherry wood
for the great-grandfather the child
carves a heart

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#kidlit #fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#haikusaturday #senryusunday
#scifaikusaturday #new
#2wordprompt #moral #heart
#dailyhaikuprompt #cherries
#vssdaily #haikuchallenge #cherry
#vssmagic #sign #inkmine #love

ageless era
I miss the beauty
her wrinkles in time

#haiku #poetry #scifaiku #micropoetry

—for creative. artistic. thinking. philosophical minds—anyone 'alive' seeking..

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#followyourpassion #betrue #quotes #thoughts #zen #philosophy #writesky #nature #art #substack #music #micro #bluesky #humansofbluesky #life #dreams #writingcommunity #artist #photography #musicsky #songwriter

Bright red mate cardinal perched on snow covered branches.

cardinals sparkle
ruby red against white
snow
lovely christmas card

#dailyhaikuprompt
cardinal

photo by David Chernoff

icicles twinkle
glistening in winter's sun
treacherous roadways

#BSPP48
glistening ice

Narcissists toot their own horns.

#7syllablesentence
horn

Draped in the chic filth
of unbearable days,
I'm wiping myself clean
with gratitude
for the opportunity
to be ugly.
Once glitching eyes
see the masterpiece
for the pixels.
Perfection is diluted
with a mountain range.
I swear it tastes
like a cup of coffee

after mourning.

#vss365 #emoetry #poetry

Lego botanicals
#flowers and tiny trees
Is a way I enjoy
Lego as a do called adult

Adulting is hard enough
To keep our childhood joys
Too far away
Helps no one at all

#vssmagic

Questions Unanswered
(thus far)

Has yet your interest become piqued?
Killing and kidnapping,
not so chic.
What is it that we’ve become?
Of all our parts,
this is the sum.
Will our promise
at all be reached?
This is, of us,
what I beseech.

#tHartigan
#vss365 #chic

A Great Tit on a thick branch sloping up from left to right. The bird is in the left pecking at the pale bark on the tree.

Good morning lovely people, coffee is ready ☕️☕️ It’s Friday, almost the weekend, have a lovely day! 😊
Guten Morgen ihr Lieben, Kaffee ist fertig ☕️☕️ Es ist Freitag, fast Wochenende, habt einen schönen Tag! 😊

melancholy sinks in
when winter hits

the days grow shorter
instead of longer

and the world begins
to lie down and hide

I feel at home
inside my skin

cloaked inside
the dusk, I thrive

for when darkness
surrounds me

my #vespertine
luminescence shines

and finally,
I come alive

#vss365

She's chic because she doesn't even try or know it.

Polka dots and strips
Paisley on Paisley
Pink faux fur

The universe smiles.

#vss365 #chic

A new set of outfits called to Rory in the game store, beautiful and #chic, but he couldn’t use any of them for Esme. Not for a witch. Black. Very, very black with the ubiquitous tall, pointed hat. That was what Esme wore. And sturdy boots.

Pithea, however, would look amazing!

#vss365

holiday chic
she adds another bauble
to her cardigan
#vss365 #senryu

a crack on
my chic mobile's display....
expletives

#vss365 #chic
#InkMine #display
#BraveWrite #expletive
#Senryu #micropoetry

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