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DeRicki Johnson

@derickijohnson.bsky.social

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Wanderer, writer, reader Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up
In World
Where everyone
Was made of glass

Yet and still
We fall to tribes
With walls
No one can pass

Even though
We look alike…
Still find pretext
To #clash

Does sapience
Doom us to
Nitpick
Until we crash?
#vss365

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 23h

Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales 🇺🇦 @bofferson.bsky.social · 1d

There's an alien onboard
Don't know what to do
Ship's cat is missing
It's eating all the crew
In the shaft above
I hear its nasty shriek
Claws #clash on steel
Drool drips on my cheek
Terrified, I look up
It's up there on a beam
Out here in space
No one hears you scream
#vss365

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 1d

#vss365
We meet in a liminal space
I call family—

My thoughts demand voice yet betray me as they leave my lips.
Lost in babel, they escape definition, to #clash with intent.

Your ears open as your heart does not—
you accept these refugees,
believing what I cannot defend.

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Love this, Auntie.👏👏👏

DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Moving💔👏

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Sara @spauffwrites.bsky.social · 1d

The annual war. Course after course, they #clash over news, politics, religion, football. A table divided, a family snapped like a wishbone. Until she serves the pumpkin pie.
Murmurs of delight all around, followed by snores.
Next year, she'll put the sleeping pills in the appetizers. #vss365

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

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space boy @soace-boy.bsky.social · 1d

We collide
like almost-rhymes,
close enough
to ache.
Your soul wears
a face I knew
in some forgotten
dialect of dream.
We are keys
cut for locks
that no longer exist;
or do not yet.
This clash:
recognition’s spirit.
#poetry #soulfriends #vss365

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

Hey fellow scribblers it's day 7 of our musical mystery tour.

We're hitting the 1970s for our inspiration, it's a band who helped define British punk rock, yes London's Calling because today's #vss365 #prompt, 07/10/25 is #clash

What's your favourite musical genre?

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed!😂 Thanks for reading, Paul. I appreciate you.

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

My nose
Starts to wrinkle
Cuz I think
I smell a rat

Know why my
#Associate
Don’t seem
To have my back…

Oft I’ve thrown him
Neath a bus
His back
Tattooed with tracks

Guess this is
His payback
For the loyalty
I lacked

Dis gone be
A rough ride
If my little
Lackey scats…
#vss365

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Peter James Martin @authorpjm.bsky.social · 2d

Ask me why I cry
I #associate with grief
Mourning my lost hope
#haiku #vss365

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful!

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Noor Mahal @rubbishpoet.bsky.social · 2d

It was the ideal night
To light autumn’s first fire
A glass of wine
In their hands
They sat in the fire’s dim light
A book on their lap
Open at a random page

Partners in crime
Associate robbers
Writers of mysteries
Taking a night off
To read stories
Written by others

#vss365 #poem #poetry

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Love this👏👏👏

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Happy this gave you a chuckle, Ezekiel. Thanks for reading!

DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Love this V. 👏👏👏

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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

So happy it resonated with you. Thanks for reading!

DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 2d

Glad it gave you a laugh. Thanks for reading!