C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢

a drawing of a living room with a sign that says " party " on it Alt: GIF of a spooky, festive living room. There is a coffee table topped with popcorn (some pieces floating), a glass container with a steaming brew, and a notebook. Near it is a sofa with pillows and a chair with a gold witch's hat. A bookshelf is in the background with books and a skull. Fairy lights hang from the ceiling and have a sleeping bat on them.

Taking a few weeks off from social media to finish the first draft of my new horror story. Really excited about getting it out into the world. Enjoy the rest of your summer. Be back soon!

the summer sky so grey
a head in the clouds
still walking on sunshine

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry
#fantaiku #scifaiku #sff
#senryusunday #dailyhaikuprompt
#2wordprompt #simple /y #thank ful
#inkmine #appreciate #imagination
#cloud #haikuchallenge #sun
#song #walkingonsunshine
#bspp #prompt 37 #sky

An empty frog-shaped impression in the cement to the right of a pair of feet.

Wile E. Frog

end
of
if
#haiku #poetry #senyru

If you've EVER considered handing over ANY information to this administration.... why?

A framed yellow door sits at the end of a path between two rows of hedges. Behind the door is an open meadow.

Exhausted and dehydrated, I slowly walk the last few steps. “This has to be it,” I think to myself. Taking a deep breath, I close my eyes and turn the handle, whispering a little prayer as I step through. I open my eyes and the last trickle of hope leaks away. I am still in IKEA.

Just seeing this post gets me excited for Halloween! 👻🎃🧹

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

rough sketch showing a young woman in 17th century clothing holding a shepherd's crook in one hand, and a baby goat in her other arm staring at something off panel.

the goatherd's daughter

they burned the books-
but silence
finished the story
#haiku #poetry

When a dog is staring off, people assume it’s a ghost and not that they’ve just got a stone cold ponderer on their hands

What is an #angel
Are they mystical beings
Or are we the angels
Maybe it’s both

All around us
Ever present
To those who believe
Never alone

A gentle touch
A whisper
Of encouragement

A light in all of us
That we can carry
For each other

#vss365 #poetry #poem #writing

THE SHADOW ARCHIVIST
— who rewrites me in hush

some shadows stay back
to rewrite our exhale paths—
when we aren’t looking
they pause where we nearly wept
and mend what time misheard

#tanka #wild_ink_and_sunflowers  #sundayserenades #cosmosofwriters

Night Tides, by John M Davis 11 track album

I totally missed Bandcamp Friday, DOH! 🤣

Oh well, all my music is on sale still since I forgot to take it off sale from last Bandcamp Friday. I am clearly not a businessman. 🫠

johnmdavis.bandcamp.com/album/night-...

Draw a why. Take your how for a when. You'll be what your who. I promise.

It was a perfect place when I knew it, the math checked out and everything. All too much though and nobody likes math, so I left. But not before proving, with words in writing, that continuous construction is a much needed psyop. It drowns out trains and giving a shit how fast they're going

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real

I smell you on the morning air, rotting in a folding chair, wood paneling in your room-sized coffin. You touched me once, with the warmth of a virus, but I'm better now. And gone. I'm up a tree like sunlight. I'm down a mountain like ice #melt. I'm in the woods - no panel - hunting magic.

#whistpr

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

from my new fav book:

When in Doubt, Play Dead: Life Advice from an Unexpected Source
by Ally Burguieres

Me: I am maybe not ok.

Facebook: it’s ok, D, we love you so much. 🫂

Booktok: to cheer you, here’s the video to Punk Rock Girl.

Threads: Whoa. Sounds like you need professional help.

Bsky: no shit, Sherlock, none of us are ok! None of this is ok!

A tan and yellow pancake tortoise stretched out in gravel

Pancake Tortoise pancakin'

😍🐢

bee in a large orange-yellow sunflower

field full of wild flowers - yellow flowers, pink flowers, white flowers - lots of green - trees in the distance - slight fog

big bright yellow sunflower with a bee on it as a kid I thought sunflowers were magic - they moved!

field of yellow flowers - black-eyed susans - a couple of small trees - low-hanging fog covers a more distant tree

pollinators hum
coloring with tiny feet
fields of wild blooms

#vss365 #hum #haiku #poetry #photography #nature

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

answer the leaf-
fall gently
but don’t land
#haiku #poetry

Work resumed Friday at WCK’s Deir al-Balah kitchen. Our team cooked 60,000 hot meals today—these meals reach vulnerable families who rely entirely on the kitchen for food. But more is needed in Gaza. Our ability to bring food to families in need depends on a reliable flow of aid. #ChefsForGaza

Beautiful