Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonAlex K. Logan @alexklogan.bsky.social · 2h“Your #cloud atlas is discombobulated.” “My what?” “Cloud atlas.” “I’m convinced you just pulled that term out of your ass.” “No, it’s a thing.” “Know what else is a thing?” “What?” “How much I detest your crunchy granola bullshit.” “See?” “Shaddup!” #vss365 083
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonLady3jane @plinkfm.bsky.social · 2hThe back room in a #tavern isn’t the best #habitat for a teetotalers’ meeting, but if it’s the only place available, #what the heck. It’s not like there’s a dark #cloud or any cloud hanging over them. The #volume should be lower in that room, too. #vss365 #vssdaily #2wordprompt #thingstowriteabout 073
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonVicente L Ruiz 🍏📜🎲🌓 @vicentelruiz.eurosky.social · 2h"Everything is in the #cloud." "Not everything." "Everything that matters." "Nope." "What's that?" "My notebook. And a pen." #VSS365 0102
Reposted by DeRicki Johnsonword-massager.bsky.social @word-massager.bsky.social · 1hThe fields are black The #clouds are gray Ashes swirling in the wind Any good news today? Maybe the sun will break through Perhaps we'll have growth again Regression does not have to be permanent So says the rosy optimists Pissing off us hardened cynics #fromoneline #vss365 #poetry #poem 063
Reposted by DeRicki Johnson🅲🅰🅼🅸🅴 ℕ𝕆𝕀ℝ @ecamie.bsky.social · 1hSomething from the vault for #vss365 "Mother is a #cloud . . ." From "Bluebell Dreams of Dragons" 142
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonHeath Laws @likethecandybar.bsky.social · 1hStorm on horizon #Clouds spark as lightning flashes A distant rumble #vss365 #poetry #writingcommunity 072
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonAndrew Hawkins @beardeduniverse.bsky.social · 1hThe pain never goes away But I try to turn these tears Into something That would have made you proud I still see you In every flower And every passing #cloud So I will continue To pass on the love You gave to me To spread joy everywhere I can To be the music in the crowd #vss365 #poetry 6153
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonSteve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 1hCloud behind the ice cream castles and the dark and the shifting, crystal forms the clear sky is always there though it is also true as Eeyore must have known the sky itself is dark roughly half the time #vss365 062
Reposted by DeRicki Johnsonscmom2jrjr.bsky.social @scmom2jrjr.bsky.social · 1h#vss365 #cloud upon waking a #cloud the fact descends dulling the day resignation settles in the bones through the heart though blood flows rhythmic continuous my song filled with love being sent to you keeping me Earthbound upon waking 053
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonCastle shackles @crowslight.bsky.social · 1hUnder the Clouds, Drifting with A variety Of sausage dogs The kids, Chomp on Buns of Ketchup And Tinned Hotdogs Legs over The wooden logs Imagination, Has a Dance With the Beach fire #vss365 #cloud 032
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 30m#vss365 What broke from #cloud Unnerved me… Silver disc Like spinning top Its pilot seemed Just as amazed— His ship Abruptly stopped Now all His green skinned Passengers Fixate upon our “flock” Apparently Hot air balloons Their far home world Ain’t got…static.klipy.comVolar Globo Ciberpunk DragónALT: Volar Globo Ciberpunk Dragón 043
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonDavid Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 19hSometimes we dream of greater days ahead especially during dark times. That's why today's #vss365 #prompt is #cloud. 37021
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonMary and her Typos @msamios.bsky.social · 23h#vss365 #Prompt #Nurture unanswered was it in your nature to close yourself off behind fortified walls? or was this the outcome of an isolation nurtured with care and calculation? will you ever let me in? 09-30-2026 083
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonFizzytwizlerAllsortsOfAllsorts @fizzytwizler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#vss365 2328
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonSara @spauffwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And to my son, I give my life. I make this #bequest because you are not living yours. Enjoy the kids chasing fireflies. Enjoy the tantrums and teenage rebellion. Enjoy the cozy home and constant repairs. Enjoy the marriage, every feud and forgiveness. Enjoy the worry; it comes from love. #vss365 1104
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Bequest Day 15 - Our Legacy, we #Bequest to the world What remains is the ones who remember: a gesture, a phrase, a kindness, a way of standing in the rain. We leave behind more than we ever knew. The story does not end. It becomes a part of something larger than itself. 💫🖤 46023
Reposted by DeRicki Johnsonvss365hq.bsky.social @vss365hq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026CURRENT PROMPT HOST The #vss365 host for October 1-15 is: @Davidcs-AW.bsky.social Prompts will drop at 3:30 am GMT (UTC) Follow David if you haven’t already! 0209
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonDavid Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hi! My name is David and I have the honor of being the #vss365 host for October 1 to 15. I would like to thank @whisperingpoems.bsky.social for her amazing words and her creativity. Give her all the flowers. My prompts will come out at 3:30 am (GMT). See you then. 53611
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Reprieve Day 14 - Death is a #Reprieve cause it teaches us to just be The long exhale. Names loosen. Edges soften. Old recriminations fall away. Nothing left to prove. Only the quiet of letting go. 🖤🖤🖤 27327
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonPS Conway @psconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026- i have missed your certainty ever since you left, faith was never a question - you knew who you were in the eyes of god and acted accordingly. there was never a need for some new Pentecost to purify you. you let the rest of us learn the taste of our new tongues. - #poetry #vss365 1216
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonLinda St. Vincent John @lindasvj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026believing one is a godly sensation holds delusions of grandeur as far as medical experts know there's no instantaneous cure a politician in power dealing the cards is globally ridiculed his petulance defying #purities golden rule 'though shall not steal from the poor' #vss365 #wrtiting #poetry 0145
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonLizzy Perkins @lizzyjperkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026‘We want to #purify the country. Those who deny elfin existence will be punished by death.’ Brit could not believe her eyes. Tod had entered the office but it was not the Tod she knew. His ears! His nose! His all! ‘I am the Elfin Lord,’ he shouted, ‘and I demand justice’ #vss365 1165
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonDavid Shaw #vss365 host Oct 1-15 @davidcs-aw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Lights splatter and paint the landscape. Lives under dictation and education glow in the candlelight. From the norm, lies we #renounce, the truth we must chase. Across the brown paper, we write history and aspirations. #vss365 053
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hello #vss365 writers. Only 2 days left for my prompts. Makes me sad, as i have enjoyed my time so! 😞 But I am super excited to introduce your next host, the talented @davidcs-aw.bsky.social! Please join me in welcoming him. David will host from Oct 1-15 and will drop his prompts at 3:30 am GMT🩵🤗 5284
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Purify Day 13 - In Elderhood we prepare, we #Purify and reflect We carry stories of a lifetime. Some are spoken. Some are no longer necessary. Our silence begins filling rooms. We begin to separate what matters from what merely happened. 👴👵🖤❤️ 15821
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonD.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 27/09/2026Greg flipped through the dictionary. “If #renouncing something is rejecting it, then nouncing it is half rejecting it. You nounce it and nounce it again, but if it gets too nounced, you can denounce it.” Maria raised an eyebrow. “The dictionary really says that?” “I’m parrot phrasing.” #vss365 2245
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonLinda St. Vincent John @lindasvj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026let them sing let them dance allow them freedom to grow if they reveal a hidden passion grant permission for their talent to shine without #renouncing future hope #vss365 #writing #poetrystatic.klipy.comHalstonblake's Adorable PerformanceALT: Halstonblake's Adorable Performance 0124
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWoodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On Planet Cinema, if you #talk during a #visit to the #movies, you have to #renounce your citizenship. Then you're slumming it on TV World, where the streams go on and on and nobody knows what to watch. Those that can remember long to return to the Betamax Dimension. #vss365 #2wordprompt #vssdaily 2235
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonVicente L Ruiz 🍏📜🎲🌓 @vicentelruiz.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026"I #nurture the notion that we could perhaps be more than what we are today?" "What do you mean? As in a couple?" "Oh, no. Might I interest you in one-to-one tabletop role playing games?" #VSS365 0114
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonElvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 I #renounce violence. I’m also a fucking liar.  182
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonMe @ewiggins66.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 Some baby sharks eat Their siblings but mom loves both Nature and #nurture 0254
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonAurumsella @aurumsella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Will World Renowned Ventriloquist #Renounce This New Way of Pronouncing Nouns that's Grown So Very Popular Among Our Young Populace? Tune In Tomorrow To Find Out!" "Cut! That Was Okay, I Guess, But Do You Think Maybe You Could Do It Again With A Bit More Enunciation?" "f ck no." #vss365 163
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonElvis Dylan @elvisdylan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 Some days I feel like a poet and some days I feel like a clown. Today I feel like a clown, a manic clown I neither embrace nor #renounce either of these personas. 0112
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonSanya @sanjar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026late September #wind even the reddest petal must #renounce the stem #HaikuDailyPrompt #vss365 #haiku #blueskypoets #PoetryInPictures #nature #garden #flowers #photography 54614
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonBreuckelen Lugarhou @lagahoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Renounce the old oaths. Lay thy lonesome burden down, And let bliss take you #Emoetry #vss365 #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BlueSkyPoets #WriteSky #Poem #SkyPoets #HaikuCommunity #MusicSkyyoutu.beBloodborne Soundtrack OST - Gehrman, The First HunterYouTube video by Shirrako 0123
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonChris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One last look at the world she’s leaving behind. #VSS365 renounce #VSSMagic sparks #Emoetry lonesome 0205
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonJan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A priest of one of the Patrons had once caught Ilyna. He had prayed for her and begged her to #renounce her dastardly, thieving ways. She had left him stripped and tied to his altar as she left with a sack of gold and robes for disguises. She didn’t want redemption. She wanted excitement. #vss365 1217
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 I’ve run with A foul demon Who today I told to, “Bounce!” E’en though I’m cartoon villain This “meshuggah” I #renounced There’s “evil” Then there’s “EVIL!” Of the latter, He’s The Count E’en League Of Evil Villains Wants this monster Out our house…static.klipy.comInkblot Mickmick FnatiALT: Inkblot Mickmick Fnati 0318
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Renounce Day 12 - As we grow older, into Late Adults, its time to #Renounce Fewer possessions. Truer sentences. The noise begins unhooking itself. We learn that not everything needs to be carried. ❣️❣️❣️ 15220
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Reckon Day 10 - It time to #Reckon those Midlife questions The mirror starts asking different questions. The past taps its ring against the glass. What did we build? What did we lose? And who is this standing here now? 😎🖤🖤 16422
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#vss365 I came to face A #reckoning 1 not sure Ought be mine The beast I face Is beckoning & says On me he’ll dine His giant form Is threatening I’m in An awful bind My arm a blur As spins my sling & slows The march of Time I pray the arc Of stone will sing & victory Be mine 1407
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Hunger Day 9 - In the Builder years its all about #Hunger Then hands get busy. Walls. Meals. Mortgages. Promises. Love begins to look like routine. And beneath it all... the wanting. 💚💙💚 15924
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#vss365 I am running On my #hunger For Justice So it seems This didn’t Sneak up on me Like a punchline Or a meme I’ve been tamping down My outrage To place MY comfort 1st Letting monster Of injustice Rampage & do its worst But no more Can I stand by & placate This evil cursestatic.klipy.comSling Attack DavidALT: Sling Attack David 1427
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonThomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the last ferry— a passenger made entirely of rain #haiku #poetry 39619
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonWhispers @whisperingpoems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#vss365 #Prompt #Passion Day 8 - Ohh.. the #Passion of that Early Love Aah! the faint scent of lavender between the pages of a familiar book. Two hearts learning to share the same weather. 💙💚💙 05822
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonCatherine Beavis @catherinebeavis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026he'd promised her a love deeper than an ocean more radiant than the moon passion hotter than a sun, but, come the dawn his goodbye broke her heart leaving her bright skies dark as crows wings, with sombre lonely nights stealing her wondrous wishing stars of dreams. #vss365 #passion art - peakpx 1175
Reposted by DeRicki JohnsonTheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For today's #vss365 prompt #passion i've gone a little off-piste with a postcard from an imaginary Roald Dahl themed hotel, unfortunately it's far too long for the restrictions of Bluesky 🙄. I hope it makes you smile 😁. #poetrycommunity #roalddahl #writingcommunity #writerscommunity 2216
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#vss365 I caught you two In the act My wife pleads As you whine I’ll claim A crime of #passion So I won’t do Hard time Before I deign Shoot you both I pause To write this rhyme Foolishly, I post this poem Proof I planned the crime Alas, As y’all read this On foul prison grub I dinestatic.klipy.comStirring a Hearty Gourmet StewALT: Stirring a Hearty Gourmet Stew 1343
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Was 1 time I made a spell I thought Would save the World But I’m just An amateur So back on me Spell curled Made me beast Of foot & hoof So vile I lost my girl Friends kicked me From Country Club It made me Come unfurled Now #embarked In vengeance tour A poster child For CHURLstatic.klipy.comNarnia MinotaurALT: Narnia Minotaur 0131