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over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekend Prompt: DECADENT 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

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#prompts March 06, 2026

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

post with the hashtag: #inkMine

#inkMine

Wake everywhere
Breaking out the alarm clock
No calamity

#InkMine
#proximity

In the spring and the fall
She couldn’t concentrate at all
Her proximity to the window
Outdoor calls like a fine Bordeaux
Only in the bitter cold
Did schoolwork her attention hold

Agitate proximity
numb calamity
there's no time
for dreary
raise me

#inkMine

#Numb my #memory
of a once #bountiful life
#destroy the remnants
the constant #dreary turned strife
he's #flabbergasted I left

#inkmine
#TankaThursday
#vss365
#WIPSnips
#emoetry
#tanka
#poetry

dreary way - but
when the fog clears
memories
of a bountiful light;
worm moon rises

#InkMine #dreary
#WriteMap #way
#TankaThursday #memory
#vss365 bountiful
#TankaPoem #Tanka #micropoetry #micropoem

We hit #proximity of the #calamity, a celebration of all things queer living, sequins and wigs, dancers and onlookers, many the men in chaps with many a bared #bum

It was infectious, #dreary and #numb swept aside, and we knew we could be queer, too

#inkMine
#WritingCommunity
#ReaderSky
#LGBTQIA+

The we that was us proved to be a calamity. You craved proximity and offered dreary, mind numbing, drivel. I can’t help the fact you are bummed but I can’t ignore you or be close without being agitated. It is truly over.
#inkMine #writingprompts

a black and white photo of a woman in a dress ALT: a black and white photo of a woman in a dress

He was in mourning, of course. Dead wife and all.

No wonder he seemed so tired, so #dreary. So #lethargic.

They smiled sadly, sympathetic, understanding.

But they didn't hear the midnight steps. The moans.

They didn't know her like he did.

"Till death," he whispered.

If only.

#InkMine #vss365

#inkmine bum

negativity
a bummer
to start the
day

#senryu

Well, it's a broken country according to Anonymous.

They aren't joking! please! fresh fire and brimstone is promised!

Others? all up in the proximity of drama that's compelling..

..like it's a production from Quentin Tarrentino or Aaron Spelling!

#DailyPrompt, #366FF, #BraveWrite, #inkMine

May they #forgive me
as I bid them goodbye
#steel frames for this nearsighted dame
that framed my squinty eyes
#cataracts fixed
did the trick
#deceived my #lanyard
no longer will it sway
left it on the #counter
til I threw the #bum away
#2wordprompt
#vss365
#emoetry
#vssdaily
#WIPSnips
#inkmine

love can seem impossible when your heart's gone numb empty black no one to bring you wildflowers and strawberries or snore you awake always on the edge of wanting love but avoiding it it's for the best, you say, but secretly it's your only desire just to be loved unconditionally even though you come with conditions how do you find that one who will love you anyways?

Wildflowers are more romantic than roses.

#inkMine #FoxProse #BraveWrite #WildWalkPrompt #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #love #numb

heavy sigh
surrounded by
the day's calamities
#inkMine

If you turn it clockwise
you will tighten the vise
and create a real pressure calamity
for the wedged head within

Fortunately
we are callously numb
to the screams of agony
emanating from the poor bastard
we wish to persuade vigorously

#fromoneline #inkmine #poetry #poem

titanic movie
we all had peachy
numb bums after.
#MadMarch #inkmine #senryu

over an image of spilling ink, this design states: Weekly Prompt: AGITATE, PROXIMITY, BUM, DREARY, CALAMITY, NUMB use the prompt words, or their evocation in an original write please credit art & photos combo prompts welcome post with the hashtag #inkMine

My first thought is the library
but I know that'll just agitate
the staff think I'm a dreary bum.
They're right of course so I steer her
towards a nearby empty shed
in the proximate proximity
of a shelter. Two bums on a
date-its not a calamity yet.
I warm her numb hand, hold her close.

#inkMine

He sat at the station, warming his numb fingers on a hot cup of coffee. The pumpkin spice drew his mind into memories of Autumn's splendour - even on a dreary day like this. The proximity to Samhain brought up memories of vicious ghost stories, that would agitate him as a child. As if he had already sensed something, then, that he learnt to be true, later. When people looked at him, now, all they saw was a bum. He could see the pity in their eyes. But he was not the one to be pitied. Little did they know about the calamities ahead. Chances were, that the world would be ending in less than a week. Meanwhile, folks were planning for Thanksgiving dinners most likely never to be had. He took a deep breath, and then sipped on his pumpkin-spiced coffee... Something shifted. ... The cup in his hand now had a different colour, and the coffee inside smelled of roasted hazelnut. A sign over the counter said: Our Special Offer In March - Hazelnut Coffee March? Which year? ... He snagged the newspaper that somebody had left on the table next to him, and stared at the date. Then he smiled. Serendipity had done it, again! © Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree

#WritingCommunity #vss365 #vssfantasy #vsstimetravel #inkMine

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He sat at the station, warming his numb fingers on a hot cup of coffee. The pumpkin spice drew his mind into memories of Autumn's splendour - even on a dreary day like this. The proximity to Samhain brought up memories of...

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...vicious ghost stories, that would agitate him as a child. As if he had already sensed something, then, that he learnt to be true, later.

When people looked at him, now, all they saw was a bum. He could see the pity in their eyes. But he was not the one to be pitied. Little did they know...

These pen and paper dreams soon manifest becoming reality.

Words linger out on the edge of this or that calamity.

Words from a war reporter out there embedded behind enemy lines..

..in your proximity! solving the riddle, exposing dangerous minds.

#moonmystic, #FoxProse, #inkMine, #BraveWrite

They juggled calamities without practicing, so the calamities would always drop to the ground and drift downhill toward you.
The chaos would seep or flare...shake you up, but never your cataracts.
Less agitating world to see, or its true dreariness emerging? You're numb to neither.
#inkmine #vss365

#vss365

Night speaketh rainbow dreams
stars tottered,
because
you were wine,
and I was watered down—

Proximity burn of cold moon
and cataract craters
beauty numbed
is serenity gifted.

Cosmic dreary - my falling stars
lofty rawness of ripe words
linger on the edge,
loud outcry of placid lake.

Drowning lights - I muster broken
light mends, because
you were wine,
and I was watered down—

Eldritch lunar eclipse
dread veils the crimson cataract
sprig of hemlock crackles underfoot
ghostly proximity chills the bone
deadly ghouls appear in luring forms
the living are cruelly deceived
ravenous cerberus waits for bloodied flesh

#vss365 #inkmine #BSPP51 #emoetry #horrorprompt #blueskypoets

Internalized limitations set
in proximity to the future imagined,
vicious words whipped
weather vanes
only one direction,
destinations selected
haphazardly
as the raindrop
blues blur the vision;

It doesn’t have to end
this way

#weirdmicro #inkMine
#vssmagic #bedroomeyes
#poetry

Now that
the Angel of Death
is definitely in my proximity
all my minor maladies
like #cataracts and sore feet
have suddenly
lost significance
in the grand hierarchy
of dwindling Earthly concerns

Oh the irony
that only at the end
do we find Perspective

#inkmine #vss35 #poetry #poem

#Deceived by your #counter offer
shall #forgive not your #cataract of lies
your heart of #steel
#numb it's feel
tis worn thin
your #dreary #guise
hope hung by the #thread
of #calamity dread
on love's #lanyard, til dead

#emoetry
#WIPSnips
#2wordprompt
#vss365
#inkmine
#vssmagic
#vssdaily

Drawing of an angry eye with screaming faces reflected in the iris.

[1/2]
Dreary scenes inundating
Leaving strained hearts numb
Recurring atrocities
Demanding all succumb

Cocky justifications
Twisted riddles sway the dumb
Commands for full submission
Entire world beneath their thumb

[2/2]
Cracks spread beneath the pressure
Protests trickle crumb by crumb
Righteous mountains manifest
The truths rise above the scum

Cataracts of voices ring
Resilient heartbeats drum
Forgiveness a luxury
Forces steeled for what's to come

#vss365 #BraveWrite #2WordPrompt #inkMine

Soft pink Wildflowers

#InkMine #FairyTalePoets
That Dreary feeling of winter
The Thaw Took It, bringing you flowers instead
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