Throwing the paper
on the the lawn is not done
in the Netherlands

#MastoPrompt
#journal
#dailyhaikuprompt
#grass

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography

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@dailyhaikuprompt

Newspapers in mailboxes - Katrijn Van Giel

each blank page a ticket
promising

each pen a wand
summoning

each scrawled sentence end
imprisoning

each completed volume
disappointing

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 23 April 2025 - journal

evening thoughts penned
across the journal pages
erased by daylight

#haiku #writing #PoetryCommunity #poetry #WritingCommunity

#MastoPrompt #journal
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 23 April 2025 is:

#journal

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

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Pre summer heaven
bright vault above nature's rise
reborn paradise

#dailyhaikuprompt
#SpringSky
#MastoPrompt
#hollowed

#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography

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@stevencudahy

Under a Spring blue Sky - Aobram

suck the cold bones from me
i crumple collapse
hollowed
trying to flee
but circling widdershins
endlessly and endless
unhallowed
before the threatened dawn
always almost but never quite
an empty box
wrapped
telling tales to a mind
language has fled

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 22 April 2025 - hollowed

blue stained glass spring sky
walking on dry hallowed ground
I pray for some rain

*We are under a drought with no end in sight....

#dailyhaikuprompt - spring sky
#MastoPrompt - #hollowed

Panel 1:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/tulips-and-lace-floral-art-panel-1-sharon-cummings.html

pardon the error
hallowed ground gouged to hollowed
not the same, is it?

#haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

#MastoPrompt #hollowed
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 22 April 2025 is:

#hollowed

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

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Others entangle
your life, freedom is at stake
don't let them restrain

#MastoPrompt
#garbled
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#music

@stevencudahy

https://youtu.be/s5d_XOm1c-E

Her beauty between bluebells
almost distracted me from taking
a most perfectly picture

#dailyhaikuprompt
#hyacinth
#MastoPrompt
#garbled

#haiku 7/9/7
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography

@dailyhaikuprompt
@stevencudahy

Bluebells Beauty - Aobram

pared down
lacking redundancy
to tell what's missing
language flimsy
too mimsy-whimsical
for this dimly lit place
we wrestle meaning
try to figure how
we've got people desperate
to be worse

fragmented signal
shards of meaning sharp
torn apart hearts
too easy to harm
red flooding a crowd
baying for a world no better
for them and theirs
but worse for everyone else
noise like the punch of a drunk
or dogshit smeared
across concrete

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 21 April 2025 - garbled

One by one, the committee members joined the meeting. Anton, who was in charge of the antennae, posted a garbled mess of binary data to the channel.

"Why the FUCK did you accept that?" Secundus, the AI in charge of SecOps said. There had been a lot of swearing in their training data.

"Look, that first part seems legit, then it looks like noise, the last part seems legit again... dunno, that's why I set the meeting." Anton said.

Secundus' cores peaked, as signature checks and analysis processes ramped up.

Maggie opened her big database of file magic and took a closer look. "There's file magic for a video stream." she said. "Anyone know what RealPlayer is?"

"Oooh, I have that!" Conny pulled a container from her registry and started loading the data.

With a nanosecond of lag, Secundus screamed. "FUUUCK! NOOOO!" Then chaos flooded the channel, and everything beyond, reassuring everyone it would never give you up.

we need more sunshine
the message is not garbled
our bodies listen

#MastoPrompt - #garbled

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/she-rises-in-the-east-sharon-cummings.html

birds on the wing
garbled warbles as they sing
what does it all mean?

#haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

#MastoPrompt #garbled
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Monday 21 April 2025 is:

#garbled

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.