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Randomly curious writer addicted to poetry prompts. Invisibly disabled. Published in various genres. Will post science articles with or without #SciHaiku. Being corrupted by #PoetsofDoom, beware.

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#vssmagic #lycanthrope #mild #MadMarch #end

You were a kind man so mild,
worried by my blood moon excursions
where lycanthropes lurked.

Into a cursed canine maw
Your mug transmogrified
and my spoor turned tragic gore.
Of shock I died in your arms, love,
a sweeter end than
my doctors foretold.

12.03.2026 20:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#haikufeels #offer

"Don't #offer" sez he,
"We need 'er alive, kiddo,
for this haiku noir."

Buds #offer promise:
Flowers, pollen, and claritin
ready to arrive.

12.03.2026 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#MPPrompt #end #MadMarch

#Call_me Ignoramus
short-sighted, dim of wit,
Saddled by bland hide,
Ready to thunder on
with heavy hooves
My high eyebrow horns
framed by manes and oh-mys
without #end

๐Ÿคช๐ŸŒ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿคช

12.03.2026 19:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Arginine, scurvy and Cartier's "tree of life" Several conifers have been considered as candidates for "Annedda", which was the source for a miraculous cure for scurvy in Jacques Cartier's critically ill crew in 1536. Vitamin C was responsible for the cure of scurvy and was obtained as an ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

For deeply nerdy fun, read this historical analysis of scurvy of Jacques Cartier and his crew caused by being fed tea from the needles and barks of evergreens by the Iroquois. It, and the general exploration of the New World, helped revitalize botany in France.

12.03.2026 18:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The White Spruce- A Living Canadian Legacy

Spruce is part of Canadian remembrance.
www.yourleaf.org/blog/brenna-...

Canada's chilly: most of it is USDA Zones 2-6. British Columbia is one of the few places there rosemary can grow year around; otherwise gardeners must pot and bring indoors for winter.

12.03.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿ˜˜๐ŸŒ

12.03.2026 04:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sheer misdirection fed by my capacity for retaining trivia.

To be honest, I'm snickering right now from the outback. Sometimes one just has to go walkabout, mate.

12.03.2026 03:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TWO MUMMIES' MEET-CRYPT:

Egyptians bade us immortality;
left us our hearts to be weighed
against Ma'at the light feather
of truth-- now let's weigh each other
hearts and all, before Hathor's love
May she guide us to love everlasting!

12.03.2026 00:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#WildWalkPrompt #rosemary

REMEMBRANCE DU NORD

Rosemary adores heat
and light, well-drained moisture:
all scarce in clay soils
of taiga-adjacent plains
where lakes once mudded.

Canadian herbalists sigh & point
at spruces & ilk (no yew):
Their citrusy needles suffice
for spicing meat instead.

12.03.2026 00:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a goldfish! But let's not carp on my nationality but rather swim on.

11.03.2026 23:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#vss365
#Cassiopeian
@yeehawpoems.bsky.social
#AmpersandAfterDark
@madp03t.bsky.social

A #bonny verse was set
to heal the world
Then a mad poet forbade
any adverb usage!
To what #end threat
unfurled
this ban stayed,
No housage
of madness could forget.

11.03.2026 23:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For the rhyme. And US scientists do use the metric metric.

Now if I had been talking about gaining a stone, you'd be rightly suspicious...

11.03.2026 23:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Went as absurd as possible on this.

11.03.2026 22:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#MPPrompt #MadMarch

#Ranking Potato Chips

Order by tasty ordure & crispness;
by chip size, saltiness & faultiness
Spreadsheet dollar cost, weight & bag color.

Impede your prior #end to gorge
in woe & gain a kilo of fatty bloat.
Chips down, chins up!
New gist: persist.
Rack up and rank 'em.

11.03.2026 22:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not sure Igor counts as undead, but the above was absolutely about Igor and his true love, lightning.

11.03.2026 03:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#vss365 #lightning #harmony #Emoetry #modest

No sky-shattering passion with tornados
Just harmony with modest lightning strikes-
that's pure devoted love which shan't close.

11.03.2026 02:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great idea!

Now I'm wondering about getting undead into writing little love poems.

Over a warm corpse let us split a brain!
My throat warps lovers words into grunts,
Curse our rotten existence-- I would fain
write you pretty sonnets without hunts
For tender guts to loop into tasty refrains.

10.03.2026 06:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Inferius love poem:

Inside your hide, a bug-eyed demon bides
A dandified demon rides me, intent on deicide
Both intent on animating our obliteration.
Begone them! Let us join corpses in unholy metaphony
To be two fire carps, burning and burnt,
endlessly lost in each other.

(cf: metaphony.)

11.03.2026 02:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Inferius love poem:

Inside your hide, a bug-eyed demon bides
A dandified demon rides me, intent on deicide
Both intent on animating our obliteration.
Begone them! Let us join corpses in unholy metaphony
To be two fire carps, burning and burnt,
endlessly lost in each other.

(cf: metaphony.)

11.03.2026 02:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stages of Casting Out Curses
Brewing the spell from endless remorse for could-a-have beens
 "Why did we let these pedophilic crazies take power?"

Slip inside parallel universes hunting solutions
 "A dog's doing for this grand thing called being" 
Philosophical crackpots' ontological babble
 "I gave neither assent or consent to existence itself"

Lancing with the powerless poison of acceptance
"human nature is always etropic in character"
Steeping inside the void within and without
"Tomorrow will be the same as today, only worse."

Controlling the flame of anger on low heat only
"My ribcage can't stand the sheer rage this deserves"
Putting the fan on to clear the smoke from mirrors
"What CAN I do in all this, that I haven't thought of yet?"

Realizing the potion must affect many to wor,-
"Evil beats good by tricking good into surrendering first."
Spritizing the world with hope and will to resist
โ€œNil Illegitimati  Carborundum,  No Pedo Kings!โ€ 

EchoGnomics

Stages of Casting Out Curses Brewing the spell from endless remorse for could-a-have beens "Why did we let these pedophilic crazies take power?" Slip inside parallel universes hunting solutions "A dog's doing for this grand thing called being" Philosophical crackpots' ontological babble "I gave neither assent or consent to existence itself" Lancing with the powerless poison of acceptance "human nature is always etropic in character" Steeping inside the void within and without "Tomorrow will be the same as today, only worse." Controlling the flame of anger on low heat only "My ribcage can't stand the sheer rage this deserves" Putting the fan on to clear the smoke from mirrors "What CAN I do in all this, that I haven't thought of yet?" Realizing the potion must affect many to wor,- "Evil beats good by tricking good into surrendering first." Spritizing the world with hope and will to resist โ€œNil Illegitimati Carborundum, No Pedo Kings!โ€ EchoGnomics

#FoxProse 3-10 #WeirdMicro #MPPrompt: write a spell #MadMarch inside (2 inline rhymes)

I'm no hexpert. I'd sooner rhyme about poop than blather about the deathly toll of politics-- but sometimes it lands in one's backyard like a freshly decanted dumpster fire. You've been warned.

11.03.2026 02:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great idea!

Now I'm wondering about getting undead into writing little love poems.

Over a warm corpse let us split a brain!
My throat warps lovers words into grunts,
Curse our rotten existence-- I would fain
write you pretty sonnets without hunts
For tender guts to loop into tasty refrains.

10.03.2026 06:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
 JOINT INSOMNIA

Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue
Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light
I kneel instead to your bare skin's livelier delight

Our feelings limned the edges which lives accrue
And deeper sense we created from stars and night
Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue
Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light.


From softer words we  grew entangled anew.
Once I toiled at night as a modern troglodyte
You too. Then we met and became sprite to sprite.
Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue
Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light
I kneel instead to your bare skin's livelier delight.

EchoGnomics

JOINT INSOMNIA Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light I kneel instead to your bare skin's livelier delight Our feelings limned the edges which lives accrue And deeper sense we created from stars and night Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light. From softer words we grew entangled anew. Once I toiled at night as a modern troglodyte You too. Then we met and became sprite to sprite. Some worship the lifeless moon's rocky hue Calling it the queen enthroned in silvered light I kneel instead to your bare skin's livelier delight. EchoGnomics

#WildwalkPrompt #skin #emoetry #lifeless
#FoxProse #Queen_on_silver_rose_throne
#MadMarch #word #insomnia
#madrigal
Two in-line rhymes only this time.

10.03.2026 05:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is really good. I love "mapped out with affection"-- this line alone makes the poem soar.

10.03.2026 04:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A WEIRDMICRO GLOW OF ADVENTURE

A growing glint off the peak recurred so many nights
Rumors flew: "Hermit with a lamp on the heights!"
Led the pack of tales. Wildly curious, a gang of teens 
startlingly broke off their humorous critiques of screens
And gathered to hike a mountainous campaign
To bring to light its source, whatever textural membrane
might come loose in their phones' peregrinations.
Truly a brave cadre all, these voyagers of the glint!
Steady their discoveries came, until they didn't--
Signal droppage led to incoherent testimony:
'no herm / rly hot hr / glo v big/ shi it coney'
Their parents linguistic incompetence proclaimed
and brought in skilled high school texters, famed
for deciphering drunken texting without sweats--
Using the imaginary principles of teen mindsets, 
they read, yelled "flee! it's not light, it's lava, piping hot!
We're gonna be the next Pompeii!" rather overwrought.

Drones revealed they were right--after the eruption.

A WEIRDMICRO GLOW OF ADVENTURE A growing glint off the peak recurred so many nights Rumors flew: "Hermit with a lamp on the heights!" Led the pack of tales. Wildly curious, a gang of teens startlingly broke off their humorous critiques of screens And gathered to hike a mountainous campaign To bring to light its source, whatever textural membrane might come loose in their phones' peregrinations. Truly a brave cadre all, these voyagers of the glint! Steady their discoveries came, until they didn't-- Signal droppage led to incoherent testimony: 'no herm / rly hot hr / glo v big/ shi it coney' Their parents linguistic incompetence proclaimed and brought in skilled high school texters, famed for deciphering drunken texting without sweats-- Using the imaginary principles of teen mindsets, they read, yelled "flee! it's not light, it's lava, piping hot! We're gonna be the next Pompeii!" rather overwrought. Drones revealed they were right--after the eruption.

@weirdmicro.bsky.social #WeirdMicro
Incoherent testimony
Linguistic impotence
Imaginary principles
Textural membrane
Humorous critique
#GLOWprompt adventure mountain lamp curious

10.03.2026 04:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#incensed #emoetry

Stink raised, fire stoked,
Censer swung at all and sundry,
Death! Suffering! By all that's holy,
'tis time to be #incensed.

08.03.2026 22:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#MadMarch #WORD

Word's P.U.
Word, how furred (by another third!)
you are: is that a blurred songbird
heard singing from inferred thickets
of your uncured nerd pelt?
Let's reword, unslurred. Get off the veldt,
and transferred to a shower: bleach preferred!
You smell like where a swineherd dwells.

08.03.2026 22:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#WildWalkPrompt #Crunch #Emoetry #Heavy

Heavy is gravity's cuddle;
crunching you against leaves underfoot,
gripping you against being blown away
whenever winds kick up.

07.03.2026 03:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#MadMarch #SMILE

N.B: @jenthorne.bsky.social is hosting in lieu of Dave. Follow her for more!

Her erstwhile smile beguiled:
My heart cross-filed her, and my my libido compiled
when she claimed I was worthwhile to defile,
not a turnstile to eventually revile--
alas, that smile was crocodile.

07.03.2026 01:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Humans Sketched Oddly Precise Geometric Patterns Onto Ostrich Eggs 60,000 Years Ago Prehistoric humans had a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of geometric rules, as this study suggests.

gizmodo.com/humans-sketc... Think sharp stylus, but yes, add dye/paint too.

07.03.2026 01:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#Shell #WildWalkPrompt

Geometric scrawls
on sixty-thousand years old
ostrich shells show flair.

06.03.2026 20:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0