"Summer's End" acrylic painting on wood by artist Cedar Lee

We can't commit to chaos #7syllablesunday #commit

"One bright morning changes all things. Soft and easy as your breathing, you wake." Hozier 🎶

kindness, so remote from many men's natural inclination So you must find it within yourself #vss365 #remote #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets #LiteraryRiff

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there are only 38 more days until autumn 🍁🎃🍂

Everything I post is the result of hundreds of hours of sleepless work. I cut pieces of my soul and carve them into what you see with lots of time. I live and breathe and evolve with my art. AI can never replace my creativity.

People are a lot like flowers. They can be pretty and popular, but thorny, or toxic, or deadlier than you could ever believe.

The only stars I idolize shine in the literal sky

Don’t resent artists; resent that you live in a society that devalues art by saying only the results matter. Resent that society doesn’t give you the space to breathe and spend time honing your craft instead of constantly worrying about how to pay your bills.

I know I am resilient but I do not want to have to be resilient

rest is powerful, not because it's passive, but because it's a bold act of self respect, stillness is radical in a world that never stops

"I am rivers and forests. I'm winds and I'm earth. I am oceans and mountains. A whisper unheard. And before you lies everything you'd ever want. I am your imagination." Thomas Bergersen 🎶

© Rukiye Garip. 'Untitled.' Watercolour, 2026. 30 x 22 inches.

It’s the perfect day to find a secluded cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

What you call rude I call shrewd-ass survival. You make me a rival the second you see I will not be falling into a steam-rolling heap, dying like a hungry gull who noms berries of lies. I am drawn to dreamy skies, not to the gaslight on garbage. It’s sickness, not kindness you spread. #foxprose

"Derelict" oil painting on canvas by artist Paul Nemiroff

I sank so damn far below bars I had set I met rock bottom’s lowest, and flotsam elements seemed like miraculous life vests. I wrestled my darkness below there; in underwater enclaves where fear was a cracked alabaster carapace too weak to battle the weight of the sea; sail away gasping but free.

I am #tangled, snarled and disposed to despise #wanting something better, I am #dead at the #gates of the future with only breathy vapors left in my lungs- can I conquer myself? #2wordprompt #foxprose #retroartprompt #firewords280 #poetry

While shivery sharks Shimmer beneath the surface, Desperate to feed. #firewords280 #ShiverySharks #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

noisy, lively, wild love hearing the garden grow living unrestrained #dailyhaikuprompt #Boisterous #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

"The Flight (II)" Oil painting on Canvas by artist Jean-Marie Gitard

Me, myself, and a large coffee

Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art. Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.

Memories of a green day. #7syllablesentence #monoku

"I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal." Incubus 🎶

Ripples on water, Swan-like fluctuations just Below the surface. #firewords280 #SwanlikeFluctuations #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @artinwords.bsky.social

Out there in the universe on an orb with success but we fell back to earth.. ..like a meteor; damn! so what's up / what's it all worth? Was that weighed wait full of wasted years? But we still played the game ignored the irrational fears! #SciFiMicro, #OurPoetryX, #firewords280, #BraveWrite

It's possible to sink and swim, rust and shine, grow and trim, take and give, sleep and wake, make and break, change and stay; all at the same exact time.