DeRicki Johnson

#vss365 #Traveled to Another realm Beyond My space and time There I met another “Me” Who was In quite a bind He’s beset By troubles And travails So worse than mine I gave My condolences But when I turned to leave… I’m knocked out Rat steals my life Now he Has all my cheese

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#vss365 #prompt #travel Yesterday we played around with the various definitions of taper. Fabulous posts. Now we need to take off and travel. Inward, outward, metaphorically, and/or literally. You decide. Let's see where we'll go today.

🧵A daily reminder about the US president: An adjudicated rapist A 34x convicted felon An adulterer x 3 Paid an adult film actress to keep quiet(using campaign $) A pedophile A sexual predator Is misogynistic Has had six bankruptcies Had a fake university Stole from a children's cancer charity

my gods are distant. #miles beyond my furthest doubt; yet i am welcome #vss365 #prompt #poetry

#vss365 Blunderbore's many heads could spot a traveller from #miles away. No one crossed the western hills unseen, and those who caught sight of the giant fled in terror... #Edvane #DarkFantasy #Folklore

When our design firm took the job for Mr. Morningstar, I noticed the house he wanted built had six bedrooms, six bathrooms, and six bonus rooms. It also sat on a property that was exactly 6.66 square #miles. Red flags, you know? Luckily, even the devil’s money is green. #vss365 #microfiction

"Our plan to rescue Mina's daughter involves some extreme tactics." Montor had Kindor’s full attention as he went through the details. When he was done, Kindor wasted no time with his reply. “So, put simply, you want to start a war a few #miles from where I live.” #vss365

A poronkusema is the number of #miles a reindeer can walk before taking a piss. 51,000, Elina Aikio reported, as the moon filled the screen. Ground control logged it in kilometres. Then capcom read back the burn in poronkusema, to two decimals, with someone laughing off mic. #vss365 #microprose

#vss365 Picked up A creepy hitchhiker Who snaps If you don’t smile He has drooled On my shoulder For the last 300 #miles He bit clean thru My best friend Cuz my buddy Dared to frown So, I smile Like a cocaine-crazed Demented Circus clown…

#vss365 #prompt #Miles We worked together yesterday and it sure looks like we conquered a lot of doubt. So now, let's see where the miles take us today. Have fun on your journeys.

Pa was a man of few words, just the look he’d give would make me ask myself the questions he knew should be asked. Funny thing about #doubt: it doesn’t kick down the door, it just moves in, rearranges the furniture and makes itself comfortable. And Pa was the one to hand it the keys. #vss365

Rachel watched her daughters playing tea party with their dolls. "I #doubt women do that much anymore," she thought. "Odd that the game outlived the real thing.” The girls grew more animated. "This isn't tea! It's a potion! She's a witch!” "Girls, no burning stakes in the house!" #vss365

**Confidence** Outnumbered, no way in hell I survive, my name, my family, my being at stake. Plenty of #doubt, plenty of reasons to quit, but who am I kidding? I was born for this. #vss365 #300

sliding through my body a serpent of #doubt questioning everything every interaction every kind word the war is in my head and i yearn for armistice #vss365 #poetry

creeping in on a fog bank self doubt #vss365 #senryu

washed away by the sea of misery tied to a wave of inconsistency stoic wind refused to intervene #doubting she'll ever see or touch sand again #vss365 #poetry

#vss365 The rogue A.I. Robin Hood Began to sow Great #doubt It seems that The banking game The bot Has figured out Robin realizes All mankind Pivots On its dimes And folk like me Will follow him If he makes dimes Mine Now opening His emails Has been Declared a crime— 🤭

#vss365 #prompt #doubt Doubt can be so tricky. It sneaks in when we aren't looking. At times, we may need help to quiet it. It may even make an appearance right before we share our posts. But don't let it get in our way today. 😊

#vss365 Feels like King Kong Stands on my chest So I Can draw no air Situation Seems so hopeless It’s #fueling My despair My granny told me “Pray to God” He dissed me— Or don’t care Perhaps, I should get off my ass And be the change I dare…

#vss365 #prompt #fueling Gosh, I think we all need some nourishment after the bounty of creativity with yesterday's word. 🌟✨ Let's see all the different kinds of sustenance we use to keep us going. Onward and Inward.

#vss365 #prompt #nervous There is an inevitable moment when something we are about to do makes us nervous. It's a universal feeling. Let's share our experiences with this. For me, standing at the start line of any race.

Sign up for six weeks at a special price. Managing Feminine Rage was the #training course title. The first week covered mansplaining and appropriate replies and responses. She skipped over the other weeks until she landed on week six. Revenge. Now that’s more like it she thought as she paid. #vss365

Training a monkey to be a Shakespearian actor to master the stage Dogs to howl sweet songs of lament get birds to fly the wrong way Get the wind to calm in its moment of anger a cloud to burst when the land is parched and dry all is possible within the impossible #vss365 #training

I twist the shoot around my wrist. When the fibers tear it squeaks in pain. That is good. It will help it learn. I am #training the vine to hold me; to wrap around me and be my protector. Soon I will be a weave of beautiful greens. If not, it goes to the compost. I can always train another. #vss365

He says it’s diet and hard #training that won him four Mr. Olympias. He even volunteered for blood testing, and there wasn't a trace of anabolics. Some of his competitors say its odd that his wins always coincide with the lunar cycle, but most chalk that up to sour grapes. #vss365 #microfiction

They say that life is just #training for death. Thank God, I am a slow learner. #vss365

It would be tough, but with attitude and #training, she could do it. The first step was research. YouTube videos, TikToks, and Instagram provided jumping off points for learning and ordering the equipment. “Take a ride?” “Where?” “To get bread.” “Aren’t you making it?” “Nah.” #vss365

I want to paint the world blue with my pain and cross everyone's path like a black cat my world is grey, shrouded in mist no moon peeps in, no sun shines through if wishes could kill, mine would be deadly my unholy waking reverie follows no #training #vss365 #bionicanadian

Tough is never enough intelligence flys overhead #Training won’t hold if you don’t heed, believe & follow through You think that ain’t true? I have former students locked in facilities from Omaha to Aurora w/everything from misdemeanors to felonies they didn’t heed but still I teach #vss365

#vss365 "Hurry up," he hissed. "I'm sorry, my #training never covered having to sabotage machinery in a stupid dress," she shot back. "Did it cover being faster?" "Do you want to come under here and do it?" Her head peered out from underneath,the anger disappearing as her face grew red at his smirk.

#vss365 #Astrophysics  The Moon rides around Mother Earth on #training wheels. Its eyes always towards us, as if seeking praise and reassurance. Each year it moves 1.5 inches further away. If not for the blustery and controlling Sun, it would eventually leave orbit and go off on its own.

#vss365 I sit here draped In my chagrin I don’t know What to say My dream was One day be a cop But failed My #Training Day The fall back Was to work for ICE They hired me On the spot Wished I’d trained On these shock gloves Went to pee… Now crotch is Hot

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#vss365 #prompt #Training Those sneakers took us all over yesterday. So today let's see how many different kinds of training we can imagine. I know I have the energy to follow you.😊

They call them the #sneakers. They slip into your shadows and then eat you by the feet. As people panicked, Mum drove us to the coast. We got there as the Sun got low. On the pier, she made us put our feet up in the air. When our shadows hit the sea we heard the sneakers drown with a scream. #vss365

#Vss365 I’m so old sneakers meant two things Keds or Chuck Taylors. They were not about cool. They were about utility. We all had to go to gym class whether we wanted to or not so we all owned a pair of sneakers. They weren’t fashion statements. They weren’t cool. They were a necessity.

When stepping into a fairy circle, which shoes one wears decides the outcome. Anything with steel and the circle stays silent. #sneakers might get a glimpse of a wing and a bell-like laughter. Step into it barefoot, however, and the fairies will dance along. #vss365

My dog Max hated his new sneakers... #vss365 #microfiction #flashfiction

He wasn't used to wearing #sneakers, tripping over the semantics he sought a pair of trainers to help him recover his stride. #vss365

sneakers snagged upon the wire a hanging tied together apart one ascendant top of a lop sided smile days floating there until the wind took them down slick lace rasping to the tarmac no one found them though not where they fell only a fox solitary at the wake #vss365 #sneakers

Bearing the fruits Worn out soles A tree stands In the Desert Sneakers hanging From its limbs From its branches There’s rubber In the windfall And canvas leaves There is still life Under the novelty #sneakers #vss365 #poetry

Sneakers and headphones Out for an evening run Finding my rhythm #vss365 #Sneakers

My entry for #PoetsOfDoom and #AmpersandAfterDark Strangely, this happened after I left the concert venue earlier. 😅 @madp03t.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @daveashleypoet.bsky.social @sonnetsmith.bsky.social #vss365 #BlueSkyPoets #triolet #writingprompt #poetrycommunity

My puppy tends to tear apart the footwear that I'm wearing My #sneakers, socks, and dark blue crocs- they all now need repairing I've tried to let her know I disapprove of what she's doing But, I don't speak puppy, so she happily keeps chewing. #vss365

Breath in young one. Essence descended to the pits. Energy expressed and expanded with each break of the universe's hand. Those #sneakers of his pressed over cracks while ravines cut into imagination's wishes. Sink in. Lose yourself in it. #vss365

He finds his passion in a pair of secondhand Nike sneakers. Coach keeps him benched. His stubbornness unmatched, he keeps showing up anyway. #vss365 #vss #sneakers