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#prompts October 09, 2026

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

** please! No AI **
**no AI words photos or art**

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Caravan window
A small hand appears waving
Another goodbye

coin face
lost in the clouds
threat of snow
a confessional voice
says “trust the toss”

Fatma Zohra Habis

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Early dusk and squally. Beach Crow calls the fleeing gulls poltroons, but they don't understand.

I suppose corvids aren't scared of anything.

'Oh, we're all valourious,' Beach Crow says. 'Course, yer can't be brave til yer been frighted.'

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the mime blows
a good night kiss
full moon.
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she's become
an #island

alone in her own
shadow

a troll trampled
over her

#blurring positivity
with false hope

failing to
cope

it's time she set things
straight

while #valor
#percolates

unlocking the barricade
to freedom

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In an unholy instance
coven of vile witches
conspire to cast lethal hexes
upon people advocating morality,
sycophants&snollygosters
hail the nefarious archfiends
prepatrators of unforgivable sins,
voices of the vulnerable
go unheard in the abyss.

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safe harbor,
a blush of haste
leaning in
from #kiss before.

an acquired taste
on the face
of “what was that for?”

lips lovingly laced,
intertwining mouths
form savored contours.

danger abates,
sensuous sapphires
blink half open.

beating heart,
a shimmering swoon
that hope elopes in.

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#sycophant

If the sniveling new aide
Creeps by my desk nosily
Like she’s giving me a grade
And reports back prosily
It’s clear the boss hired her
For her sycophantic purr

seasons
changing the phone case
sand falls

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jahreszeiten
wechsel der handyhülle
sand rieselt

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#vssdaily #fall #autumn

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Why did the rooster cross the road?
To prove he was still Spry!
Artist @Angela_Otwell
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rich surreal melodies
each instrument in tune
warm cadence immersions
when the tension dam breaks
and prolonged kisses and rests
peel the heart loose in the air
while valor is expended with finger tappings

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#Poetry

increasingly less rare
especially in Washington —
the spineless sycophant

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Memory inventory

Sixteen year old me

Hello Mrs Robinson

Mom of my best friend

Flirts seductively
with very naive me

Crawls into my sleeping bag

Determined to make a man out of me

Twas a fast lesson indeed
but definitely
a sweet forever memory

Goodbye virginity

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I groan at the sun
wondrous winter now arrives
your warmth will be missed

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The word nailed itself to the wall between us. It was the first shadow. I remember it clearly. Spineless. It was a poor joke. You hung more words from that one nail, did it to death. There was space for one more. It was my turn. Goodbye. The world fell for you tho for me, it grew brighter.
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a groan within
the fading hurricane;
goodbye!

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Your sails aren't fueled by kisses. They are fueled by knowing these discordant winds could be far worse.
With these sails, you've scarcely managed to navigate round the giant poltroon robot - the one a thousand spineless sycophants formed to strong-arm their way through this.
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