Glitzy stoating, not
A stitch visible, coated
In a fine glitter.
#firewords280 #GlitzyStoating #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@artinwords.bsky.social

listed on Artfinder

Spring Colorful Bouquet (2024)
oil painting
by artist Hayk Miqayelyan

#firewords280 #foxprose #vssfantasy

A butterfly lands on a finger.
Bees linger, pollenate flowers.
Forests whisper answers.
We deliver poisons.
Fortuitous sunblinks on oceans
exonerate pollution
hidden underwater.
We taste fear,
forget we're the monster.
Declare a god's there,
but take over.
Who controls the
stars?

#bravewrite

"You can't tell that you're bigger than the sea that you're sinking in. And you don't know what you've got, but you've got it at your fingertips. You've got it in you." BANNERS 🎶

nourish your body
honor your soul
protect your peace

Indeed — “Each image made by the camera is a silent prayer to being there." Richard Quinney

The idea that we have to just suffer on through 'til we earn the right to happiness, success, respect, and rest? Absolute nonsense to keep us in check, working for elitists while they all live their very best lives. Don't subscribe to lies. Live for yourself while there's time.

Cobweb bottom cocktails,
Arachnids unseen until sipped.
Preened celebs swallow with
gossamer lips, contagion
transformation.
Ventriloquist puppets
with thunderous beats.
Creepy crawly underneath.
Sliding, leaky rainbows.
Pots of gold, infested.
Magnetic infection.
Gold sting.

#bravewrite #foxprose

Letty, after letty,
after inconvenient letty.
Enlightenment, heavy, but blearly.
Divergently rising
means capsizing;
trying, but dying
again and again.
Sputtering breath
at the last brutal second,
convergent in effort, yet
never reward.

#bravewrite #firewords280 #foxprose #OurPoetryX

listed on Saatchi Art

Tulips White 2
oil stick painting on paper,
by artist Rakhmet Redzhepov

It wasn't easy,
Ceding frigidity for
The eternal flame.
#firewords280 #CedingFrigidity #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@artinwords.bsky.social

I used to be good at rembering
things now I’m undecided,
uninvited to the party
with pretty laughing
people;

Remember I was open
to change, the third third
version
was not acceptable;

My immortal identity tattooed
on my arm, a thing in itself,
sin born of sin, avoided,
disconcerting
#poetry

#OurPoetryX @OurPoetryX
Prompt for 6 April

-Open to change-
We know it’s always coming, but are we open to change? It’s easy to stick with what we know, what’s comfortable. But we need to let things go to welcome in new things.

From the vault: Encourage

I just want to live my best creative life. Happily pour out my time into a happy grind, enjoy all the coffee shop vibes, nature, music, reading time, spiritual quests on the side, with genuine friends. Artsy scenes. Passion in everything, not in between. It feels like a pipe dream today.

With the way everyone ignores book threads, you’d think books were fully extinct…

trusting the unseen growth. reconnecting with the natural world. learning to be softer with what’s changing within me. knowing that every beginning is a seed, waiting to grow

just lost my cat, who was my everything, last week - sending virtual support

What’s everyone reading this month? #BookSky

The might of us mightn't
cause ruckus,
nor be the focus of any applause,
nor show its claws in the toughest
of moments.
Maybe the mightiest focus on closeness and softness,
silence the violence
with dances through perilous pain;
only the rain to bear witness
to strength.

#firewords280 #moonmystic

The sky wept razor
Droplets, acid rain, cutting
Stone, shredding metal.
#firewords280 #RazorDroplets #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@artinwords.bsky.social

listed on Saatchi Art

spring
acrylic painting on canvas,
by artist Claire Biette (France)

HBD!!!! 🥳

april, show me a version of life where i'm not constantly recovering

Great write!

In scanty attire,
she set thoughts afire.
Some felt warmer veneration.
Others offered condemnation,
intended to scar her w. hatred.
All of it, every sentiment,
razor droplet traction.
She only had interest in
self-satisfaction;
mysterious attraction
to one opinion: dreams.

#firewords280 #moonmystic

26th: seeping melancholy
27th: dewy roses
28th: mood meters
29th: punctured floatation
30th: bombastic tempest

alternative: graphite tenderness

13th: buckled shelter
14th: sugar weather
15th: cloudy swells
16th: zero cancellations
17th: raining prominence
18th: paracosmic cannonballs
19th: elegiac mayhem
20th: sock saturation
21st: awash in
22nd: cold kalopsia
23rd: folding chairs
24th: nasty fylleangst
25th: showering stories

In case you can’t read the small text:

1st: razor droplets
2nd: perilous dances
3rd: thunderous beats
4th: ceding frigidity
5th: inconvenient letty
6th: fickle heat
7th: fortuitous sunblink
8th: glitzy stoating
9th: foggy mizzle
10th: apt pikels
11th: huddled ducks
12th: drizzly callithumps

Warm weather is finally here! The #firewords280 prompt theme for April 2026 is Rainy Day Parade. ☔️

Feel free to use the pairings as a phrase OR separately!

Include the hashtag for RP consideration. No AI or quote posts. Thanks in advance.