wind plays catch
through the broken mill
where ghosts hide

#DailyHaikuPrompt (windmill)

Photo of an old pink teddy bear in a circle at the top. Below is the same teddy bear plushie stepping out of the TARDIS. There is a strong beam of yellow light coming out of the TARDIS. The artist's signature and watermark @joyousjoyfuljoyness are at the bottom left.

I painted my childhood stuffed animal, Bear, coming out of the TARDIS! This was a challenge to myself to see if I could paint from imagination.

#doctorwho #art #plushie #painting

Book cover for Wren's Aria by Helen Whistberry showing a bright-eyed brown wren perched among bright red poppies and green grass with beak open in song.

TODAY IS THE DAY!

My latest book, Wren's Aria, is out in the world!

A charming animal fantasy wherein open hearts and loyal companions triumph over tyranny and needless cruelty. Includes 52 original illustrations and cover art by me!

Full blurb and buying links in comments below

#WrensAria #sff

oakfuls of crow-calls
I’m walking the long way home
my boots full of stones

Thanks ever so much!

over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekend Prompt: COMPORT 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 April 17, 2026

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

** please! No AI **
**no AI words photos or art**

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

“I/must guard you with my life—as if/
I, collector of frog calls and memory/
have ever kept anything safe.”

This perfect poem by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in Stirring Lit 🧡🧡🧡

Ah, now I have a story about Lantern Men in this anthology that I'm still proud of. They are turbo-charged by climate change in a future deluged East Anglia.

Photo of dark trees and a small bridge reflected in water.

how do I still dream of you

Thank you! 🧡

On a miniature table covered in a paper tablecloth sits a vase of pretend roses.

Today’s Thursday April 16th prompt is #vase #thingstowriteabout

flashes born across our common sky
water and thunder igniting a dream
ripping air to say nature prophesies
between songs that we all sing

All these handsy spirits and unaffiliated gods shuffling around the room.

Use an unacceptable color

You have always been a forest.

Elane Kim, from Antibody (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)

#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Colorful, glowing skeletons sitting and talking at a table, with lightbulbs above them and fireflies and plants below them. Concept and painting created by Tatyana ∙ razorberries.com

Light Conversation

A digital drawing of a weird little bunny-eared guy excitedly gesturing to themself and saying 'me?' and then some text saying 'no that guy!' with an arrow that points to a little bug behind them.

#3306 How embarrassing

cloud for cloud -
I pluck
daydreams

#dailyhaikuprompt
#haiku
#poetry

a soft circus
drifts by
clouds on parade

#haiku #poetry
#DailyHaikuPrompt - clouds

Love this 🪲

let my thoughts,
full of twigs and blue eggs

please be
a mer woman in a shell bra,
carried away as leaf cuts.

Her lovely head,
perfect as shed cells,
as first responders
and insects and questions swing
vines into her seal-soft hair.

Photo of the bus window this morning. It is blurry and there are some drip stains on the window. You can just make out a cloudy, blue sky and the sun coming up over a field.

A colourful collage made from 1960s magazines and books with a central image of a 1960s young thin white woman with bouffant blonde bob and her face, only eyes visible with blue eye shadow surrounded by stars, underneath is a piece of paper reading clever you, to her top left is a blancmange and a bowl of custard with an eyeball in it and an advert for compression stockings, below her is a a realistic illustration of a white doll with red hair and pink dress and a cigarette coupon, on a background of brown sunflower pattered wallpaper, all of which emerges from a lilac cloud

The Sky Was Made of Amethyst
Collage made from 1960s Vogue and Women’s Realm magazines, Ladybird books, Player’s cigarette cards & coupons, 1960s wallpaper, felt tip, watercolour & acrylic marker

Love this!

Pink ice cream bowl containing vanilla ice cream, strawberry & chocolate sauces, & sprinkles, garnished with a Hello Kitty spoon. On a brown wooden table.

I reset the time loop
only to discover
that the ice cream
tastes worse now
that my nemesis
has vanished.

A Crow wearing a little crown and breathes fire

Simple drawing in white ink against a black background of a crab at an angle so that it looks somewhat unhinged.

Illustration countdown to #WrensAria publication!

51/52 Crabby Crabapple Crabington

Fun fact: added this character at the last minute because of a conversation on here with @laguettler.bsky.social and @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social

It's fun to add those little easter eggs.

Arrives April 18th!

Add the tag #LetsRenga to your #Haiku / #Senryu posts, to invite others to reply with a (7-7) response to make a tanka, and respond to others with the tag too!

Please share amongst the #俳句 / #川柳 / #Poetry community! I'd love to involve everyone!

hole in the pebble
catching a glimpse of pale sky
on the other side

Dusty riverbed
a tree empties its branches
into the sky

#haiku #poetry