Just here to announce that I'll be falling off the planet for a bit -- going on vacation on Monday. As far as poetry is concerned, I've already started that vacation, I suppose! Be kind to each other in my absence, and I'll see you August 16!
Mary and her Typos
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Mostly tired. She/her https://myveryown-nemesis.dreamwidth.org/ https://a-poem-a-day.dreamwidth.org/
I’m watching Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack (don’t judge me; it’s one of my happy places). This episode has a section on the Marfa lights. I find it interesting that scientists in 2000-2008 declared the mystery solved as automobile lights, when reports of the lights go back to the 1880s.
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1829: #feral #haikuhorrorprompt in the tall grass, in the clover in the tall grass feral, waiting she approaches longing, aching. hunger moves her ever closer primed to gut you in the clover. 07-27-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · last wk.Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1829: #feral Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Neil G x.com/Banquozghost for today's inspiration!
Your regular reminder that the Universe is a vast and wondrous place. Also please note: keep your hands off the Galactic Crystal Ball. Mere mortals such as us are not made for such wisdom or beauty.
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · last wk.🔭 NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Paweł Piechnik ap260727
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1826: #monument #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku stone lullabies and lies we build granite monuments to pin our fears underground consistently forgetting that we can’t lay fear to rest 07-24-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 2w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1826: #monument Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Byte Size Lovecraft x.com/LOVECRAFT_AI for today's inspiration!
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1825: #crawlspace #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku unkept spaces on hands and knees, I crawl with care through memories untouched by light of day 07-23-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 2w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1825: #crawlspace Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Emotion Driven Poetries x.com/ruhinrhyme for today's inspiration!
language is a map drawn by people who never left the village the forest has been laughing all this time
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1824: #headstones#haikuhorrorprompt One from the archives: history headstones can’t talk, but I read the words, somehow, that is enough. 1984
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 2w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1824: #headstones Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to 𝒯𝓇𝓊𝒹𝓎 x.com/Changedhandle1 for today's inspiration!
Horror Writing Prompt #2255: #ecdysis #horrorprompt molting season unable to soothe the deep itch within, she peels off layers of unneeded skin baring her insides. finally free. 07-22-2026
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
Your reminder that the Universe is a vast and wondrous place:
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2w ago🔭 The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster Image Credit: DES/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image Processing: T.A. Rector (UAA/NOIRLab), R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NOIRLab) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260722
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1813: #lady_dhampir #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku damsel of the dark rapacious dhampir... never a lady always a woman stronger than the men who would cage her strength if they could confront her teeth without fear. 07-21-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 4w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1813: #lady_dhampir Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Lady De Crescent @ladydecrescent.bsky.social for today's inspiration!
I am lazy, and I repeat things: Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1822: #marrow #1765: #marrow #haikuhorrorprompt slicing the marrow you draw a sharp knife, thinking it could be hallowed and dried like a gourd. you learn it is soft, made of flesh to be consumed not to be preserved. 05-25-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 2w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1822: #marrow Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Rebel x.com/TheRebelWA for today's inspiration!
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1820: #grave #haikuhorrorprompt #tanka soft edges we need not be grave for such marginal matters, as borders between the living and the fallen are suspect definitions. 07-20-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 3w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1820: #grave Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Thought Umbrella x.com/thoughtumbrella for today's inspiration!
Found this #tanka while scrolling my posting history for pieces from 2025 for my poetry journal. It just needed to let go of that rhyming couplet: #Haiku4U advent like carefree children we whisper innocent prayers anticipating the festival in the air holding this moment in time. 12-01-2025
Mary and her Typos@msamios.bsky.social · 8mo ago#haiku4u #festival #tanka advent like carefree childen we whisper innocent prayers anticipating the festival in the air the moment we get to share 12-01-2025 My first time playing with tanka...then some rhyme inadvertantly happened. Then tried to make it advertant. Not sure I liked how it landed
Ooh. I get to share a most unpopular opinion… While not the worst ever movie I’ve seen, but I nearly got thrown out of the theater during The Shining because I thought it was an absurd vision of the book and couldn’t stop laughing.
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1818: #stained #haikuhorrorprompt every stain a lesson my vision of you has changed with time and practice; I see every mark. 07-17-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 3w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1818: #stained Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to Steffi @kokopellibfree.bsky.social for today's inspiration!
i am ashamed of how often i pass through as if the world were a corridor and i a man late for a meeting yet the smallest scene contains its own republic its laws its citizens of dust and light i look and for a brief moment i belong to it #poetry
your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought Harold Spinach???
Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 3w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought I'm Hank Scootboots
You've been murdered (yeah this old chestnut). Who do you want in the case?
Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo Thinking
Alt: Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo… just one more thing…
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Jenét Morrow@jenetallday.bsky.social · 3w agoYou've been murdered (yeah this old chestnut). Who do you want in the case?
#APoemADay Untitled like oil on wood your shadow sheens beside you what have you become? 07-16-2026
Your reminder that the Universe is a vast and wondrous place that holds opals the size of galaxies:
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 3w ago🔭 NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds Image Credit & Copyright: Team Ciel Austral Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260716
I spent a good part of the morning living like it was 1994 -- shooting emails that land somewhere between flirty and sardonic with my husband. I really enjoyed that.
Haiku Horror Writing Prompt #1816: #mimic #haikuhorrorprompt #nothaiku the mimic she could have been you all stark lines and dark edges until she softly smiles. you had never smiled.
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 3w agoHaiku Horror Writing Prompt #1816: #mimic Write a horrifying haiku inspired by the prompt and tag #haikuhorrorprompt Thanks to 🜃 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔘𝔫𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔫 ⟁ @theunclean.bsky.social for today's inspiration!
margin of freedom as each year passes you fill larger spaces. perhaps, once you pass i will keep the space you leave behind refusing the company of emptiness. 07-14-2026 @APoemADay
My issue is the “h”…I try to put it in front of the Rs where it just doesn’t belong.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3w agoPro tip: it's spelled d-i-a-r-r-h-e-a.
Horror Writing Prompt #2246: #saturnine #horrorprompt i offer you my vicious heart you have a special tendency to be bitter, sardonic, sullen. let's be friends. 07-13-2026
Phil@pgpayt.bsky.social · 3w agoHorror Writing Prompt #2246: #saturnine Write a terrifying tale inspired by the prompt and tag #horrorprompt Thanks to gagi for today's inspiration!
"Verify your age" As the youngest child in the household, I was the remote control.
Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 3w ago"Verify your age" Can respool a cassette tape with a pencil after splicing the break with scotch tape and a razor blade.