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DW Keene

@dragonandelf

I do not give AI nor its developers permission to use my work. I reserve the human right to be human. Writer of high fantasy, lover of old texts and nature. ⛔️NO DM thank you.⛔️

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Thank you. There's something about an empty shell, I think it must primordial 🙏🙏

07.03.2026 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why and when did difference
Become a bloody murderous crime
In a species built upon different?
The bounty of new, original, different
Is forgotten in mass murder
Do you not weep for yourself
When no one is like you?
Sorrow must become a blessing
So it stops
#vss365

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

#wildwalkprompt

A small speckled #shell
Half buried in the grass
Mystery of life or death
I walk on

06.03.2026 07:31 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Geology specimen photo

Geology specimen photo

Amazing piece of opalised wood from the Eromanga opal fields. Check the growth rings, there have obviously been good years and bad years.

📷 Boulder Opal

#minerals #geology

05.03.2026 02:17 👍 1029 🔁 135 💬 26 📌 12
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"First-of-its-kind event." Whale shark swims "astounding" 1,200km from Madagascar to Seychelles | Discover Wildlife Gentle giant’s epic journey highlights the need for transboundary conservation strategies, say researchers.

🦈 #Shark #whaleshark
#highlymigratoryspecies

"Photo-identification confirmed that a juvenile male first recorded off Nosy Be, Madagascar, in 2019, was resighted off Mahé in the Seychelles, in August 2025."

share.google/vArKP4k2xGpl...

05.03.2026 11:46 👍 582 🔁 110 💬 15 📌 6

Shall I tighten up the 1st 3rd of my manuscript or rewrite the next 3rd. Indecision gollumps aimlessly in flopping fits and starts, #magnanimous in choice, mean in resources. How Friday depletes me and the weekend entices. I shall sit and cry.
#vss365
#writerslife

06.03.2026 07:27 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Bitter is the sipping cup
Love tainted from the first
Half empty half full
Never enough
You were the cataract
Obscuring joy when it did
Come in
Happy the person who changes that drink
#vss365

03.03.2026 17:32 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Artists and writers, extended submission date.

03.03.2026 14:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

⚘️⚘️⚘️🙏🙏

02.03.2026 18:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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01.03.2026 09:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#vss365 #poetry

I’m hanging upside down
From the dusty beams
In the mind of my head
Come & find me only if
You dare to climb the stairs
Without any steps
& not afraid of the dark
Don’t be #timid be brave
I’m just a 5ft 1 lady creature
Some might say from Venus
But I reckon Mars

01.03.2026 07:22 👍 86 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0

I was never #timid, just afraid of my strength and so weary of the ignorance stating you can't be you undercutting and short cutting all I did. Aghast, the feet shuffle and try again to chain and defy reality. I walk towards me.
#vss365

01.03.2026 09:44 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The last thing anyone could call Dylan was #timid, and he made certain everyone in Fleet Headquarters knew it. He was justifiably angry, and if they booted him from the fleet, so be it, but they needed to hear how bad their pussyfooting had made things.
There would be a reckoning either way.
#vss365

01.03.2026 09:20 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0

Give the deck another shuffle so the void and death are hid within. Play the cards so the sun comes out and laughter reveals itself like a light between the deep clouds and births reassurance. The struggle is too dark else. Are you there beloved? I can hope no further than this.
#Fromoneline 407

01.03.2026 09:38 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More!

SciFanSat: The Monthly Magazine for Science Fiction, Fantasy and More!

AVAILABLE NOW: The February issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Enter tales of adventure with stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More written by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow!

Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!

28.02.2026 15:19 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 5

#WildWalkPrompt

Beneath the rainbowed waterfall
I saw a tail - just for a moment
For half a second my heart stopped hating
Under the canopy trail of blue
I saw a wing blot the paled out moon
Within the crepsular fog I saw him loom
He ate my cold heart and gave me a red red bud
Waiting to bloom

01.03.2026 06:42 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you. 💔❤️‍🩹❤️

24.02.2026 07:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scaly pangolin amongst leaves

Scaly pangolin amongst leaves

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

21.02.2026 09:37 👍 2511 🔁 393 💬 61 📌 29
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there is no #escape
#blatant attempts to cheat time
crash on distant shores
~-~
#vss365 #haiku #senryu
#scifaikusaturday #scifaiku
#photography #nature #desert

21.02.2026 15:22 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Poignant 🙏🙏🙏

21.02.2026 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#vss365

21.02.2026 16:41 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I have been hitting the #nonsensepoetry hard lately..
Thanks @jenthorne.bsky.social for the push.

I have a Menagerie of fantasy creatures ready to turn into verse. I just needed the confidence to start.

#FreeVerseFebruary #shelter #fantasy #poetry #blueskypoet #poem #nonsense

21.02.2026 18:39 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

🙏🙏🙏

21.02.2026 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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21.02.2026 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the spirits were #bouncy, they'd not be leaping high. On the waters falling drenching lapping high.

#vss365

19.02.2026 07:02 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The mirror told her things because it was supposed to. It was miniscule and enchanted yet it's enchantment was to tell lies. What she didn't know, was the first lie. That was where she'd find the murderer. Hours of questioning lay before her and it's tiny size made it like picking on a child
#vss365

16.02.2026 21:21 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

How long will we stay(?) Isn't really a good question when the clock has all the answers & a unique stand. If we're happy & brave we could change the rules. Stay within the dream & forget demands. The clock ticks impersonal. We know we don't believe in Adam & Eve yet We could do it
#fromoneline

16.02.2026 21:10 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The Ballad of Purgatory Ridge - Jan Karlsson - Wattpad After surviving a brutal war of annihilation against a mysterious and implacable foe, Captain Dylan Cook finds the only solace is at the bottom of a bottle. Wi...

As the prompt doesn’t drop until later, and the latest chapter is posted …

#TheSkiesAreFree

and ... five years after the war, a new adventure continues for Dylan.

There be spoilers ahead ...

A new chapter for "The Ballad of Purgatory Ridge" just dropped.

www.wattpad.com/story/402870...

15.02.2026 09:15 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The bloom is gone
The berries fallen
The hungry months
Verge the roadside
Opening the door to cold
Winds wind up the storming raindrops
Birdfeeders empty fast
I wither under the clouds
Blocking the longer days
Yet I know
The sun peeks
Hope seeds break the shells
Root

#wildwalkprompt

15.02.2026 07:42 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of cats Tilly and Ziggy, either the text submissions are open until feb 28th. All profits from this anthology go to help Ziggy and his fellow felines - I’ll put a text link in the reply bit with more info!

Photo of cats Tilly and Ziggy, either the text submissions are open until feb 28th. All profits from this anthology go to help Ziggy and his fellow felines - I’ll put a text link in the reply bit with more info!

FromOneLine - If I were a cat... anthology is now open for submissions.

Please keep your writings/artwork private and unpublished until after the anthology is officially published. Full guidelines, T&Cs can be found here : www.kobayaashi.co.uk/submissions

#FromOneLine #cats

03.02.2026 13:40 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1